CNN Monday January 29, 2024
Since 1993, Italian coffee manufacturer Lavazza has produced a calendar featuring images from the likes of Helmut Newton, David LaChapelle and Annie Leibovitz. This year’s edition celebrates the African continent as the birthplace of coffee (widely considered to be Ethiopia). To shoot it, Lavazza turned to three African photographers: Thandiwe Muriu, Aart Verrips and Daniel Obasi. CNN profiles the 2024 calendar, themed “More than Us,” and the photographers. “I am so excited by opportunities to provide conversation around Africa,” says Muriu.
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World Press Photo Monday January 29, 2024
The World Press Photo Foundation has announced a “strategic partnership” with Fujifilm to support its annual photo contest exhibitions and other activities, including workshops in 10 cities around the world, with additional workshops to come. The competition will now also offer a Fujifilm GFX 100 II and two GF lenses of choice to each of the four global winners of its contest, notes PetaPixel. The partnership “will help us reach more people, improve our exhibitions, and directly support the news and documentary photography community,” says World Press Executive Director Joumana El Zein Khoury.
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Blind Monday January 29, 2024
Acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley was just beginning his career in 1975 when he was commissioned by the California Office of Economic Opportunity to make a four-month road trip to, as he puts it, “produce a report to explain…why the state runs programs to assist the poor.” In the style of Depression-era Farm Security Administration photographers, Turnley created a documentary project capturing a side of the Golden State often overlooked, notes Blind. Now the work is collected in the book The Other California—1975.
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Aftermath Project Monday January 29, 2024
“I have a heavy heart this year as I announce the opening of our traditional grant cycle. There is too much war in the world, too many civilian lives lost. Too many aftermaths to come.” So notes photographer Sara Terry, founder of the Aftermath Project, which offers its traditional “post-conflict” grants to photographers documenting the effects of war. (The “aftermaths” of ongoing conflicts are also eligible subjects, notes Terry.) The winner receives $25,000; four finalists will also be named. Deadline: March 15.
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