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Migration, Memory, Identity
Migration, Memory, Identity: Main Topics at Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2017
While Canada is celebrating its 150th anniversary, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival is offering an entire month dedicated to photography in all its forms in Toronto. This interdisciplinary festival of 2017 focuses on the subject of the Canadian Confederation’s sesquicentenary and the issues resulting from it. Identity, memory, environment, and colonial history of the country are this edition’s recurring questions.
Haunting Image of Refugees Wins World Press Photo Awards
STEP BY STEP ON A DESPERATE TREK – Azam Ahmen and Daniel Berehulak
ON THE MIGRATION ROAD IN SERBIA — Alberto Campi
Illegal Immigration Base in Calais — Hugo Kaici & Felix de Montesquiou
Immigration in Europe — TIME magazine
Immigration Detention in Arizona — TIME magazine
Photographs That Humanize the Immigration Debate – The New York Times
Shattered dreams: life in Italy’s migrant camps – a photo essay – The Guardian
On the Border With the Photographer John Moore – The Atlantic
Life after Syria: the migrants’ tale – a photo essay – The Guardian
Photographer Chronicles 2 Women On 8,000-Mile Journey Migrating From Cuba To U.S. – NPR
Risking the Channel ‘death route’ to Britain – a photo essay – The Guardian
La Caravana del Diablo: a migrant caravan in Mexico – photo essay – The Guardian
‘A moment in history’: making a perilous sea-crossing with refugees – photo essay
Showing Migrants Through a New Lens: Their Own – The New York Times
Photos: The Arduous Journey of the Haitian Migrants – The Atlantic
“THEY HAVE TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING”: A PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURES THE HUMAN DRAMA AT THE BORDER – Vanity Fair
Social Photography
Working from Far Away in European Fields
From The New York Times blog:
“Mr. Villegas used that image to begin “Working Far Away,” which documents the public and private lives of seasonal workers in several countries and continents. He has followed asparagus workers in several towns in Germany and found their families in towns and cities in Romania. He has also documented Polish sheep shearers and olive workers from Morocco, Senegal and other countries working in several towns in Spain. Next on his list: France and Finland.
It took six years to start the project, said Mr. Villegas, who lives where he studied photography, in Hannover, to establish himself. “I needed to start a life in Germany,” he said. “So I set aside that topic but always with that photo in my mind, knowing one day I would pick up the subject.”
Photographers have been documenting the plight of seasonal workers for decades. Yet any attention the workers receive tends to be quickly forgotten. Immigrant workers, especially, who leave their countries for backbreaking work that few in the host countries is willing to do, remain in society’s peripheral vision. At best, they’re ignored. At worst, they’re vilified as criminals. “Working Far Away” aims to dispel the stereotypes.”
See more photos and read more on the NYT Lens Blog.
The Passage: A Photo Essay – Columbia Magazine
Adam Gray: Migrant Crisis
Marisol and the American Dream — Janet Jarman
An Immigrant’s Journey — The Atlantic (John Moore)
Moving Photos Capture the Complex Story of Undocumented Immigrants
Todd Bigelow — undocumented immigration from Mexico to the U.S
In the shadow of Trump’s wall
World Press Photo 2016
World Press Photo Contest 2016
View Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev’s collection of winning images from the 59th World Press Photo Contest.
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Art Photography
100 Images of Migration – in pictures — The Guardian
Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920 — the Collections of the Library of Congress
Ellis Island Era Immigration
Lewis Hine — Ellis Island series
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING AT ELLIS ISLAND: PHOTOS BY LEWIS HINE
Ramin Samandari: Huddled Masses
The project is a collection of 300 portraits featuring people holding whiteboard placards on which they’ve written details of their ethnic heritage. In the wake of the last presidential election, Samandari was motivated to explore his own experience as an immigrant. (Nicholas Frank, The Rivard Report)