The New York Times Tuesday May 2, 2023
“I was finishing my second semester of a master’s program in documentary filmmaking in Budapest when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of refugees rushed into Hungary, and my classmates and I went to the train stations to offer our help.” So notes Rusian Fedotow, whose short film Someday This War Will Be Overis featured as part of The New York Times OpDoc series. This film focuses on two young Ukrianians, Andrei and Alisa, as they try to rebuild their lives away from home.
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Global Peace Photo Award Tuesday May 2, 2023
Photographers from around the world are now being invited to submit work to the Global Peace Photo Award. Formerly known as the Alfred Fried Photography Award, the competition celebrates images that depict "what peace looks like,” in the broadest sense of the word. The award is open to both amateur and professional photographers, and there is no entry fee. The top five submissions will receive the Alfred Fried Peace Medal at a ceremony in Vienna, Austria, in September 2023. The winner of the Peace Image of the Year award will receive a cash prize of €10,000.
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 2, 2023
With NASA's Artemis project, Americans will going back to the moon in the next few years; in the meantime, Elon Musk's SpaceX is readying its stainless steel Starship for trips to the moon and maybe
even Mars. (Once they get it working right.) But with new chapters of space exploration opening, the Mashable blog recently looked back at the earliest days of rocketry in … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday May 1, 2023
Loren Cameron, a photographer and activist whose depictions of transgender people — and documentation of his own experience — inspired a generation, died on Nov. 18 at his home in Berkeley, CA, reports The New York Times. The cause was suicide, his sister said, adding that he had suffered from congestive heart failure. Cameron was 63. His photographs of transgender men like himself were collected in the 1996 book Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. “At the time it was groundbreaking, even radical, to photograph transgender people as regular folk,” notes The Times.
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