This week on Friday Round Up - POYi Awards, exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane and New York, an article on Why We Need Professional Photojournalists through Alison Stieven-Taylor and any other article at the need for diversity in visible storytelling by Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
Awards:
POYi 2015
This week features snap shots from the winners of 3 classes - Photographer of the Year Reportage, Feature Picture Story and World Understanding Award.
Photographer of the Year - Reportage
Paolo Marchetti for The Price of Vanity
This story became featured on Photojournalism Now in February last yr whilst Italian photographer Paolo Marchetti was named Professional Winner 2015 inside the Alexia Foundation Awards for this excellent frame of labor that exposes the reality of breeding animals for the style industry.
Feature Picture Story
Newsha Tavakolian
Freelance and Magnum nominee for Iran Coming Out of the Shadows
World Understanding Award
Hossein Fatemi
Freelance for An Iranian Journey
View the total winners listing at POYi.
Exhibitions: Melbourne
NO LILIES
Is the 6th annual exhibition by women photographers for International Women’s Day and a fundraiser for UN WOMEN.Artists featured: Wendy Currie, Judith Crispin, Maggie Diaz, Pam Davison, Joyce Evans, Jill Frawley, Amy Feldtmann, Carole Hampshire, Susan Henderson, Sue Jackson, Cheryl Lucy, Helga Leunig, Ilana Rose, Carmel Riordan and Margot Sharman.
(C) Judith Crispin
(C) Cheryl Lucy
(C) Pam Davison
Until 2 April
Magnet Galleries
2/640 Bourke Street
Melbourne
Exhibitions: Brisbane
In Situ: New photodocumentary paintings
This new exhibition at Brisbane?S Maud Gallery functions the paintings of graduates from the Queensland College of Art Documentary movement. Curator Doug Spowart says, ?The documentary photographs in this exhibition are made by means of photographers working not as the informal iPhone snapshot ?Photographer? Of nowadays, but instead folks that embed themselves in human and natural environments to witness, to empathise and to report with a digital camera so a tale can be shared. The documentary photographers on this exhibition present their work as proof of what they have visible, felt and been touched by. This work represents new photodocumentary practice and will vicinity viewers in situ ? Surrounded by problems of current existence?.
(C) Elise Searson
(C) Marc Pricop
(C) David Mines
(C) Cale Searston
(C) Richard Fraser
The contributing photographers are: Chris Bowes, Richard Fraser, Gillian Jones, Louis Lim, David Mines, Thomas Oliver, Marc Pricop, Elise Searson and Cale Searston.
9-20 March
Maud Gallery
6 Maud Street
Newstead (Brisbane)
Exhibitions: New York
Meryl Meisler
Currently displaying at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York is an exhibition providing early paintings by way of Meryl Meisler who's taken into consideration one of the notable visible diarists of Americana. This display spans pics from the 1970s from the ?Kitsch-crammed? Rooms of her hometown of Long Island and images of her circle of relatives to New York?S disco-generation. This idiosyncratic series capabilities photos taken in suburban settings as well as extra notorious New York clubs which includes CBGB, Studio fifty four and The Magic Carpet.
Man in a 3 Piece Suit Dancing Within the Circle at a Wedding
Rockville Centre, NY, March 1976
(C) Meryl Meisler, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
Mom( Sylvia ""Sunny"" Schulman Meisler)
Reading A Scholarly View of the Jewish Mother,
Thanksgiving, North Massapequa, NY, November 1978
(C) Meryl Meisler, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
The Meisler, Forkash & Cash Clan Welcoming a
Sweet New Year, North Massapequa, NY,
Rosh Hashanah , September 1974
(C) Meryl Meisler, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
Butterfly Bedroom Telephone, East Meadow, NY , June 1975
(C) Meryl Meisler, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
My 2nd cousins Milton and Betty Schwartz's grandson
Todd jumping off their couch in the den, Florida, 1978
(C) Meryl Meisler, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
Mom Getting her hair Teased at Besame Beauty Salon,
North Massapequa, NY June 1979, 1979
(C) Meryl Meisler, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
Kissing in Black Leather Jackets During last
Dead Boys Concert CBGB, New York, NY April 1977
(C) Meryl Meisler, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
Until 9th April
Steven Kasher Gallery
515 West 26th Street
New York
Articles:
Why We Need Professional Photojournalists
© Robin Hammond/Witness Change
One of the tenets of photojournalism is to give voice to those who are unable to speak for themselves, but what does this mean for our digital world where the photograph has never been more potent or more accessible? Are photojournalists still needed to tell stories when everyone supposedly has a camera-enabled smart phone and can tell their own stories?
The truth is that more than 2 billion people are still disadvantaged when it comes to digital communications and many of these people are those whose stories need to be told. The notion that everyone has a smart phone is a privileged thought and the digital divide that exists across the globe is widening despite advances in technology…(you read the full story published on L'Oeil de la Photographie here)
Why Photojournalism Needs Diverse Storytelling Approaches 
© Daniel Ochoa de Olza
Photojournalist and artist Anastasia Taylor-Lind has written an article on why photojournalism needs diversity in storytelling. This article discusses the issue through 'Victims of Paris', a photo project by Daniel Ochoa de Olza that was awarded third prize in the World Press Photo People Story category only to be withdrawn by the Associated Press.Read the TIME article here.
Her article feeds into the growing debate on defining photojournalism in the new media environment. It's an exciting time. Approaches like that of Daniel Ochoa de Olza and this year's FotoEvidence Book Award winner Daniella Zalcman's Signs of Your Identity are fine examples of how important stories can be told in creative, engaging ways without losing their integrity or message.
© Daniella Zalcman
See last week's post for more images from Daniella's project.
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