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This much-loved photographer was a keen observer of the human condition.
Salgado produced technically flawless, mesmerising images of some of the world’s harshest realities, from the gold mines of Brazil to the horror of the Rwandan genocide.
The winner of the prestigious Deutsche Börse photography prize documents everyday life in a powerful and creative way.
In You’ll Know It When You Feel It at the Institute of Modern Art, Raphaela Rosella and her co-creators have sought to reclaim and counteract the narratives formed by state records.
While Lewis Hine’s early-20th century photographs of working children compelled Congress to limit or ban child labor, the US Department of Labor is now under fire for failing to enforce these laws.
Documentary photography aims to portray reality and help transform the world.
An award-winning photographer reflects on iconic images of the late monarch and pictures a nation in mourning
The photos taken on Bloody Sunday have played different roles in commemorating the events of the day over the last 50 years.
They began as wartime technology, but now drones are changing the way we witness the world, especially when we can’t see it for ourselves.
A rare set of photographs of South Africa’s most famous jazz ensemble, the Blue Notes, has added valuable insights to the music archive
For decades, the alternative weekly’s photographers served as the eyes of the streets, working with activists to document and publicize the anguish and rage of everyday New Yorkers.
In late 2015, 200,000 refugees a month were arriving on the Greek island of Lesvos. Tasos Markou went there to photograph their plight - and ended up joining the locals to help the new arrivals.
Hoping to avoid the pitfalls and tropes of drug genre photography, documentary photographer Aaron Goodman spent a year following three addicts enrolled in a heroin-assisted treatment program.
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Faculty, Journalism and Communication Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Researcher, University of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Photojournalism and Visual Storytelling, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Lecturer - Visual Arts, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Professor, University of South Wales
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Associate Professor of English, State University of New York Oswego
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Professor of Environmental Law, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Media, UNSW
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Music lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Photographer and creative director
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Profesora de Fotografía y Estética, Universidad CEU San Pablo
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Bristol
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Curator and Head of Special Collections and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Subject Lead for Film & Photography, Birmingham City University