August 13, 2013, 11:02 am
Anush Babajanyan will document the experiences of Armenian women who illegally migrate to Turkey for better economic opportunities and the impact this has on the families they leave behind. Babajanyan aims to better understand and visualize these stories as they are underreported, due in part to Armenia’s contentious history and relationship with Turkey.
Babajanyan is a freelance photojournalist and has worked for publications such as, Nouvelles d’Arménie, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Transitions Online, Hetq, National Geographic Traveler Armenia, and the organization, Journalists for Human Rights. She has exhibited her work in Ireland, Russia, and Turkey. In 2011, Babajanyan’s project on housing conditions in Gyumri, Armenia, was selected as a finalist in the amateur category for the PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards. She studied journalism and mass communications at the American University in Bulgaria, and she completed a course in photojournalism at the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.
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August 13, 2013, 11:06 am
Rentsendorj Bazarsukh will document the social interactions and exchanges that take place at Mongolia’s largest public market, Naran Tuul. Bazarsukh’s goal is to use Naran Tuul as an entry point for exploring the social, economic, and political issues facing Mongolians today.
After graduating from Mongolia’s University of Arts and Culture, Bazarsukh worked as a photographer for the daily newspapers Unen and Mongolia Today. In 2008, Bazarsukh became a member of Gamma, the first independent photo agency in Mongolia, and has exhibited his work in China as well as Mongolia. Bazarsukh won the “Press Photo 2011” competition, organized by Mongolian Photo News.
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August 13, 2013, 11:10 am
Gulbuddin Elham will document the minority Sikh and Hindu communities living in Afghanistan. Elham aims to address the harassment these two non-Muslim groups face by portraying their experiences in accessing social services and practicing their respective religions.
During the Mujahideen rule, Elham was the chief photographer for Kabul Weekly, Afghanistan’s first independent newspaper established by Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Taliban took power, Elham was forced to flee his country and become a refugee, first in Iran and then in Pakistan. When the Taliban fell, he returned to Kabul and spent three years studying at Aina Photojournalism Institute under renowned photographers Reza and Manoocher Deghati. He also resumed his role at Kabul Weekly, documenting stories about everything from the country’s first presidential election to the daily lives and struggles of Afghan citizens. Elham’s work has been published in Harvard’s Niemen Reports, the New York Times, and Reuters. Since 2008, he has been providing photojournalism training courses to aspiring photographers in Afghanistan.
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August 13, 2013, 11:13 am
Vaghinak Ghazaryan will document children with disabilities in Armenia. Ghazaryan aims to portray the experiences of families and their children in accessing medical treatment and care. His goal is to reveal the underlying social issues and stereotypes associated with disabilities in Armenia, especially for low income families.
Ghazaryan works as a photojournalist for Armef.com. In 2000, Ghazaryan studied at Armenia’s Academy of Television and Radio. Upon graduation in 2001, he worked for the ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency and in 2003 for a finance magazine. In 2008, Ghazaryan completed a photojournalism course in Tbilisi, Georgia, and in 2010, enrolled in the Art Criticism and Curatorial Training School in Yerevan, Armenia. His work has been exhibited at the Naregatsi Art Institute in Shoshi, Armenia, and the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan.
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August 13, 2013, 11:16 am
Ilkin Huseynov will document his hometown of Ganja, Azerbaijan. Huseynov’s goal is to use Ganja as an entry point to better understand the impact of regional conflict and modernization on daily life in urban Azerbaijan.
Husyenov is a freelance photojournalist based in Baku, Azerbaijan. He works closely with organizations seeking social change in his home country and in the region. Huseynov’s work has been published by prominent sources such as AFP, Associated Press, CNN International, Globaljournalist, InvisiblePhotographer, Media Paran, Newshopper, and Reuters. In 2012, he was selected for the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass.
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August 13, 2013, 11:19 am
Piruza Khalapyan will document the experiences of Syrians living in Armenia. Khalapyan aims to portray daily life for this community of migrants in order to address the underlying social, economic, and human rights issues they face both in their home country (Syria) as well as their receiving one (Armenia).
Khalapyan currently works as a staff photographer for MediaLab, an online news publication in Armenia. She studied filmmaking at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and cinematography and has created five documentary short films. Then, in 2005, she participated in a photojournalism training program organized by World Press Photo and the Caucasus Media Institute. In 2008, Khalapyan was selected to represent Armenia in “Close to Home,” a touring exhibition organized by the British Council and won first prize for the 2011 Na/Ne Media Award also organized by the British Council. In 2010, Khalapyan co-founded the Ruben Mangasaryan Memorial Foundation in Yerevan, Armenia, to support documentary photography in the region.
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August 13, 2013, 11:22 am
Asef Ali Mohammad will document the Hazara community living in Quetta, Pakistan. Mohammad aims to address the targeted violence against Hazaras, who migrated from Afghanistan to Pakistan to escape Soviet occupation and the effects of war. Mohammad’s goal is to better understand the context for these attacks and the relatively little media attention paid to this community’s plight.
Mohammad was born in Afghanistan and educated in Pakistan before moving to Great Britain in 2001, where he is currently pursuing a Masters of Photography at Middlesex University in London. Mohammad’s work has been published in the BBC, Foto8 Magazine, Newsweek, the Guardian, and Al Jazeera’s the Stream. His photographs have been exhibited at Impressions Gallery in Bradford, England, and the Somerset House in London. In 2012, Mohammad won the Sony World Photography Student Focus Award.
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August 13, 2013, 11:26 am
Nelli Shishmanyan will document daily village life along the Azerbaijan-Armenian border. Shishmanyan aims to address the impact that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, even during peacetime, has had on Armenian and Azeri communities living in close proximity to one another. Her goal is to portray the many shared experiences of these two ethnic groups, despite their respective country’s political tensions.
Shishmanyan is a freelance photographer who began her career in 2006 after participating in a World Press Photo seminar on photojournalism. That same year, Shishmanyan participated in the MerhaBarev project, a collaboration between Armenian and Turkish photojournalists. Over the course of eight years, MerhaBarev photographers exhibited their work in Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey. She has contributed to ArmeniaNow and Hetq, and her photographs have been published in the World Press Photo, Newsweek Russia, and Ogoniok Magazine, among others. In 2012, she won first prize in the British Council’s Na/Ne Media Award.
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Learn more about the nine photographers awarded a grant to produce documentary work on pressing human rights and social issues in the region.
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September 19, 2013, 9:15 am
At this year’s pop-up photography festival Photoville, the Open Society Documentary Photography Project supports two exhibits that provide an inside view of solitary confinement and police interrogation practices.
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What is documentary photography? And can it really inspire people to make the world a more just place?
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November 12, 2013, 12:59 pm
John Willis will partner with the Lakota Circle Village, the Lakota Peace Making Court, and KILI Radio Voice of the Lakota Nation to address how outsider representations of native people and culture have been internalized by Lakota living on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. Willis will use images from his body of work, Views from the Reservation, as a catalyst for intergenerational discussions on the values that are missing from these existing mainstream narratives. Through storytelling workshops, youth will learn photography, writing, audio, and video to create their own stories about what it means to be Lakota today. These projects will be exhibited at community centers throughout Pine Ridge Reservation and KILI Radio will host a series of interviews with participants.
Willis and his partners hope to create an opportunity for young people to honor and utilize elders as living resources of oral-based Lakota language, tradition, and history. In turn, they hope youth will learn to more clearly and proudly articulate their Lakota identity.
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November 12, 2013, 1:04 pm
Elyor Nematov will partner with Central Asia on the Move, a coalition of civil society organizations from the region, to address the fact that many Kyrgyz migrants arrive in Russia without official documentation and are often unlawfully subjected to hazardous working conditions. Nematov will exhibit images from his body of work, Central Asian Labor Migrants in Russia, at community centers and universities in the Southern cities of Osh, Jalalabad, and Batken. Members of Central Asia on the Move will provide a resource guide for legal, medical, and social services once in Russia.
Nematov and his partners hope that through their efforts youth will better understand their legal rights and know how to access support networks before leaving Kyrgyzstan.
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November 12, 2013, 1:11 pm
Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill will partner with the Bronx Documentary Center, the Learning About Multimedia Project (LAMP), and Uncharted Digital to pilot a media literacy curriculum for New York City students at Immaculate Conception School in the Bronx, New York. Project partners will use Everyday Africa, an online collection of cell-phone images taken by photographers living and working in Africa, to challenge stereotypical representations of Africans in Western media. Students will learn to document their own lives and neighborhoods. Final projects will be included in an “Everyday Bronx” Instagram feed and exhibited at the Bronx Documentary Center.
DiCampo, Merrill, and their partners will also develop phase one of an interactive website, where African photographers can upload content, providing Everyday Africa’s images with local voices and personal context. They hope to replicate this educational program in other schools in New York City and throughout the United States. Their goal is to provide American students with a more nuanced understanding of daily life across the African continent.
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November 12, 2013, 1:15 pm
Jason DaSilva will partner with AXS Lab, an organization dedicated to telling stories of disability through film, new media, and technology. Together, they will develop AXS Map, a mobile app and online tool that invites users to rate and review the accessibility of neighborhood businesses. A new feature on their platform enables users to upload photographs when sharing feedback. DaSilva and his partner will conduct "Mapping Days" in cities across the United States where supporters contribute by collecting information on venues’ accessibility. Using this expanding database, DaSilva will create "heat maps" for city officials that visualize where inclusive design policies are succeeding or failing.
DaSilva and his partner hope that AXS Map provides those with disabilities greater freedom and spontaneity when navigating their communities and making everyday decisions. They also hope that AXS Map serves as a tool to connect a growing network of like-minded people who support inclusive neighborhood practices and policies.
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November 13, 2013, 7:30 am
Four photographers have been awarded Audience Engagement Grants to work with young people in New York City and the Lakota Nation, Kyrgyz migrants, and people with disabilities.
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November 14, 2013, 3:00 pm
Photojournalist Donna De Cesare speaks with NYU professor Fred Ritchin about her new book Unsettled: Children in a World of Gangs.
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December 18, 2013, 11:55 am
The Documentary Photography Project is seeking an exhibition associate.
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January 28, 2014, 3:00 pm
The Open Society Foundations are hosting an opening reception for Moving Walls 21.
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Learn more about the nine photographers awarded a grant to produce documentary work on pressing human rights and social issues in the region.
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