This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - Christian Thompson documents the sector's persistent waste problem with a focal point on Ghana, the Bob and Diane Fund requires entries and a brand new exhibition at Sydney's Blackeye Gallery. Next week a unique characteristic on the 2017 Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
Photo essay:
Christian Thompson - Waste
(C) Christian Thompson
More often than not photographs do need captions, but in the case of Christian Thompson's visual documentation of the waste problem facing Ghana, these pictures speak for themselves. The west continues to send its waste to foreign shores, and what isn't delivered in containers on ships (which is a huge energy resource drain), washes up on the beaches. And we are all complicit. It is time to stop producing so many things that can't be fixed or can't be safely recycled. Consumption is killing the planet, and its people. For all the things we know today, and for the amazing leaps in technology, we as a species are irrefutably stupid, greedy and bent on our own destruction.
And it isn't like we haven't visible pictures of this kind earlier than. The past due, incredible Stanley Greene's extremely good series on eWaste despatched shivers down my backbone, especially while he told me how ill he felt capturing in these limited, poisonous spaces. But still, he persevered to paintings convinced the arena had to see.
(C) Stanley Greene - India
Greene isn't the handiest one to threat his very own health so as to reveal those tales.
In India, China and Tibet UK photojournalist Sean Gallagher has documented the environmental degradation caused by enterprise and mining at the environment.
(C) Sean Gallagher - Tibetan Plateau
Russian photojournalist Vlad Sokhin has photographed groups within the Pacific susceptible to disappearing with the rising of the ocean, consisting of Kiribati.
(C) Vlad Sokhin - Kiribati inside the important Pacific ocean
And Canadian Edward Burtynsky has shown the ravages of mining on the panorama.
(C) Edward Burtynsky
These are only a few of the devoted photographers turning their lens on one among the most important, if now not the biggest, problem to stand humankind this century, the destruction of our planet. We have the visible and scientific evidence. Where is the social and political will? As these pics show, we aren't doing sufficient.
(C) Christian Thompson
(C) Christian Thompson
(C) Christian Thompson
(C) Christian Thompson
Entries Open:
Bob and Diane Fund
(C) Maja Daniels
Swedish photographer Maja Daniels was the inaugural grantee of the Bob and Diane Fund Grant created last year by Gina Martin in memory of her parents. In an interview with the New York Times in 2016, Daniels said that she spent a year getting to know the staff and the relatives of patients at the St. Thomas de Villeneuve hospital in Bain-de-Bretagne, France. It was only after developing these close relationships that she picked up her camera. Over the next two years, she photographed those living with Alzheimer Disease or dementia. The result is Into Oblivion, a beautiful, poignant and very human story, told from the heart.
The supply round for subsequent year opens on 1 September, 2017.You can find out extra here.
(C) Maja Daniels
(C) Maja Daniels
(C) Maja Daniels
(C) Maja Daniels
Exhibition: Sydney
Black Lines - Group Show
This exhibition that is currently on at Blackeye Gallery in Sydney?S Darlinghurst features an eclectic selection of pics that focus on the built surroundings.
The show includes works via Chris Round, David Manley, Tom Evangelidis, Rob Tuckwell, Tom Blachford, Damien Drew, Rhiannon Slatter, Chris Walters, Terrence Chin, Luc Remond, Rodrigo Vargas, Gary Sheppard, Vin Rathod, Jade Cantwell, Richard Glover and Kate Ballis.
It?S an engaging collection that shows the photographers' man or woman processes and perspectives in taking pictures our city environments.
(C) David Manley
(C) Chris Round
(C) Tom Evangelidis
Until 20 August
Blackeye Gallery
3/138 Darlinghurst Road
Darlinghurst
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