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Bed. noun. Piece of furniture upon which a person may recline or sleep, for many centuries considered the most important piece of furniture in the house and a prized status symbol.
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51 Meet the artist Lina Scheynius
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To tell a story, a sentence needs a subject, a verb and a direct object. News photos need the same construction. Photojournalists tell stories with their images. Also, words are always used in conjunction with photojournalist’s images. Photojournalists capture verbs.
Freetown, Sierra Leone Sixty prisoners share a 25-square-meter cell and are locked in for 16 hours at a stretch with a single bucket for a toilet. There are no beds or mattresses, and scabies and other infectious diseases are rife. Pademba Road Prison, in Freetown, Sierra Leone was built to accommodate around 300 prisoners, but now holds more than 1,100, including many juveniles. According to Sierra Leonean law, children under 17 should not be imprisoned with adults, but poor documentation means that it is not always easy to prove age. Youths can remain JUVENILES BEHIND BARS in jail for years while awaiting trial, as in some cases age IN SIERRA LEONE must be proven before a trial can commence. Every day, World Press Photo 2011 dozens of juveniles on remand are taken to court, but many Daily Life return without a decision being made and have to return 2nd prize stories on numerous occasions before a judgment can be reached. government forces.
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The sister of Feroz Ahmad Malik wails as she clings to the bed carrying his body, at his funeral in Palhalan, near the city of Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Feroz was one of two people killed when Indian police and paramilitary fired at random in the town marketplace on 6 September. The incident led to massive protests in the town, during which a further two people were killed. Separatist unrest across the region had lasted since July, resulting in more than 60 deaths. Kashmir, which is over 60 KASHMIR INTIFADA percent Muslim, has been disputed by India and Pakistan World Press Photo 2011 since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. From 1989 onwards, a growing Muslim separatist movement against People in the News Indian control has led to frequent clashes with 1st prize singles government forces.
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Jamila (40) was injured by a missile that hit her legs, during ‘Operation Cast Lead’, carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on targets in the Gaza Strip in 2008. She lives in Beit Lahia, is now disabled, and in need of treatment. The IDF conducted the operation in response to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. Gaza suffered extensive infrastructural damage, and the region’s continuing isolation means rebuilding and repair World Press Photo 2012 remains slow. A World Health Organization report said that General News 48 percent of Gaza’s health facilities were damaged or des3rd prize stories troyed during the offensive.
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An unmade bed, in Okuma, less than five kilometers from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is testament to a hasty exodus. Evacuation orders were broadcast during a televised news conference before dawn on 12 March. The Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan damaged vital cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Blasts occurred in a series of reactors, leading to nuclear meltdown and a release of radioactive material, in what was seen as the world’s most serious nuclear accident since the Chernobyl diJAPAN’S NUCLEAR REFUGEES saster of 1986. A 20-kilometer exclusion zone was declared around the plant, and more than 80,000 people were evacuated. The exWorld Press Photo 2012 clusion zone remained in place for months after the incident, with General News the Japanese government predicting it could take 40 years to fully 3rd prize stories decommission the plant and clean up surrounding areas.
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A GIRL IN HER ROOM RANIA MATAR The girls are there, alone with the photographer, exposing themselves to our eyes. They not only expose their face, their skin, their tattoos, they expose their universes. Every picture reveals a girl in her sanctuary: We see a lot, we know nothing; every Girl and her Room remains a mystery, a vulnerable object of intrigue. There are no photographs in which the girl doesn’t seem to perfectly fit in the room. They must work together because these are two symbiotic beings living in coexistence. As the girl evolves, so goes the room. A Girl and Her Room is a candid vivisection of that process in book form.
PORTRAITS STUDIES
“...an area that is theirs, that they can fully control, decorate, trash and be themselves in – within an outside world that is often intimidating.”
SOMNAMBULISM KEN SCHELS In the eighteenth century, somnambulism held a larger, more general connotation of memory alienation–of being cut off from the conscious awareness of one’s own experiential memories–sleepwalking being just one example. Not fully formed and not yet ‘awake’, a sleeping child becomes a metaphor for our own sleeping awareness. These moments of reprieve are times we can easily reflect (and project) upon. Looking closely at our lives and the ones we love, we see vulnerability, innocence; we acknowledge mortality.
“I was the sleepwalker moving through the bedrooms of these still and silent children, all tucked in their beds. Eventually, I came to realize that seeing was, in many ways, only believing.�
PATRICK ZACHMANN Back in November 2005, when nightly riots on the outskirts of French cities catapulted the word banlieue into the international media vocabulary (generally preceded by adjectives like grim, ghettoized or impoverished), Patrick Zachmann was in Shanghai. He had already started working on his exhibition, ‘Ma proche banlieue’ (My near, dear banlieue). Four years later, far from reacting to ‘current’ events, the images offer a multi-faceted reflection on the French banlieues as seen through some 30 years of his photographs and films. Zachmann’s ‘decisive moments’ have tended to spread themselves out: seven years for his early project on Jewish identity, six for the Chinese diaspora, three for Malian families between France and Africa, three more for Chile’s ‘buried memory’, plus multiple sequels. But the banlieues have always occupied a particular place in his work as a setting where his preferred themes – immigration, identity, memory and forgetting – take concrete, human form, as suggested by his punning title, ‘Ma proche banlieue’, evoking at once the ‘inner suburbs’ and his lifelong connection with them, beginning with the Paris suburbs where he was born in 1955.
Zachmann has built up a body of work that consistently deals with questions of identity, memory and the immigration of various communities.
As the “photographer of what cannot be said�, as opposed to an action photographer, he has never retreated in the face of the long investigations required to speak the unspoken.
MALIENS HERE AND THERE A sequence zoomed in on issues of immigration and identity by panning back and forth between Malian families living in the Parisian banlieue of Evry and their relatives in Mali, which matched up stately colour portraits with more impressionistic black and white snapshots.
W. OR THE EYE OF A LONG-NOSE Zachmanns passion to penetrate deep into the veneer of China sincerity exposes the front that China has often presented to outsiders. This façade has often been exacerbated by other photographers who were unable to find a means to picture the raw side of the country and its people. Through the course of the book and its ten chapters, Zachmann and W. take us to Europe, the United States, China, Tahiti, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Macao showing us the raw side to life through the Chinese its people. There is a fascinating and purposefully fragmented understanding of China at play as Zachmann makes us ‘look’ at the Chinese. This ‘look’ is created by a conscious stream of narrative found in both image and in text. The text, which reminds me of the dialogue in Chris Marker’s film “Sans Soleil”, has a personal but universally familiar atmosphere. It allows the voyeuristic element of the task of understanding to be carried out in a comfortable manner rather than an intrusive one.
WHO WE ARE
JOSH FANNING
ADAM JOHNSON
FARRIN FOSTER
Josh Fanning knows how to wear a cravat and can slam Guinness at an alarming rate. These facts, and his ability to string a sentence together, qualify him to edit this magazine.
Adam Johnson is a man of charisma and charm who seems capable of convincing people to do almost anything. He runs Xtra Shiny when he’s not making the magzine look pretty.
Farrin Foster likes words. She finds them coming out of her mouth, wandering from her pen onto paper and mysteriously appearing on her computer screen all the time.
MATT STUCKEY
OWEN LINDSAY
STAVROULA MOUNTZOURIS
Matt wears a golfing hat almost everywhere. It covers his bald head and encases his amazing brain. His other notable qualities include magic with design & illustration.
Owen Lindsay is a modern renaissance man who writes, illustrates and plots ways to take over the world. So far he has been successful in all but the last of these pursuits.
Think rainbows and fluffy clouds and you are halfway towards how fantastic Stavroula Mountzouris is. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of fashion and yearns to help people.
EDITOR / PUBLISHER
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
SUB-EDITOR
AARON SHUPPAN
JARED BROWN
ANTHONY WENDT
Aaron Schuppan has the skin of Mr Fantastic and jaw of American Dad. He has used these superpowers, and a variety of cameras, to become the master of all images.
Jared Brown has moved from a career as a fully-fledged rock star to a career as a fully-fledged rock star photographer. He only had to change one word on his business card.
Anthony Wendt is a DJ, a world-class barista, a top reviewer and the un-disputed king of all bearded men. He is so good at so much stuff it makes us a little sick in the mouth.
CLARA SANKEY
ANDY WATSON
SVEN KOVAC
Clara Sankey’s writing is almost as delicious as the gourmet foodie stuff she often talks about. We’re not sure where she appeared from but we hope she never goes back there.
Owner of denim mecca ‘RHD’ Andy is a style icon... whether he likes it or not. Swing past his shop and ask him about Japanese denim... he loves that stuff.
Sven Kovac is a photographer who looks a little like a model and can hold a sterling conversation. He loves his job and can’t imagine a day without his camera.