Congratulations @wesaamalbadry one of the winners of @aperturefnd 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund! Awarded for his his series, “From Which I Came.”

In this series @wesaamalbadry seeks a correction to the narrative, created through decades of media coverage and cultural stereotyping, of the violent Arab Other. Born in Nasiriyah, Iraq, Al-Badry is a refugee of the first Gulf War. His life in the United States is a symbol of a cultural and political coalescence that pervades his work. “It’s impossible to say there is one type of Arab,” he says. “so the project came to be, “I’m just going to photograph people as they are.” The resulting photographs depict what one might imagine to be a quintessentially American family with the familiar marks of Al-Badry’s Iraqi heritage.

@eastwingphoto is honoured to represent @wesaamalbadry

• @wesaamalbadry In the midst of the Covid-19 shelter in place, I chronicled the Essential Farmworkers’ plight for 2 years. The sacrifices they made, including paid in health and with their lives. Workers faced evacuations, labor’s wages, theft, and discrimination. “We don’t care what your political affiliation are, we feed America”

Congratulations Corinne Vionnet!!!• @co_vionnet Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao 
30-30-30 — until 15 October 2023

Artistic commission work curated by Ramón Esparza, together with artists Vanessa Winship and Maria Azkarate.
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Tanya Habjouqa for @washpostphoto

• @habjouqa Palestinians explore the pleasures, & perils, of hiking the West Bank, summer assignment e @washingtonpost .
W brilliant writer @for_bread_alone  , Shira Rubin

Vignettes of her writing :

A hiking group in the West Bank offers a chance for Palestinians to rediscover their ancestral landscapes.

“Walking connects us to the land, and to each other,” Jaser said. “We’re not going anywhere.”

1st pic : Hanan Ramahi, the director of the American School of Palestine in Ramallah, has also been a regular participant for the past six years, since returning from a PhD program at Cambridge University. The activity allows her a rare respite from the stresses of the city and the restrictions on movement imposed by Israel. Hiking is “psychologically therapeutic, literally, and, on another level, also enabled me to get to know Palestine, and make my connection to the land stronger,” she said. On recent hikes, she has also formulated a vision for her Palestinian homeland: not necessarily in the form of statehood, but of institutions that would make the place more “livable” for young Palestinians. Published story edited by @olivierclaurent

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• @cortissonderegger FLASHBACK

Staged kitchens for @kuhnrikonschweiz

The Swiss family business based in Zurich`s Tösstal valley develops and produces innovative cookware and functional kitchen gadgets for the whole world.

In collaboration with @raffinerie_ag, we were able to design and photograph a comprehensive visual world. The result is an entire book. "Kitchen Tools: Design by Kuhn Rikon" was published by @larsmullerpublishers and shows the high-quality and beautifully designed products.

The picture world of staged kitchens shows unique kitchen worlds in action: Sustenpass with Steingletscher with car breakdown, the historic kitchen in the @kurhausberguen, tomato can throwing in a Zurich flat-sharing community, Ida from @flo_streit cutting out biscuits and last but not least, a grotto in Ticino.

The photographs were conceived and planned by us and realised with models and props.

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Tanya Habjouqa on assignment for @wsjphotos

• @habjouqa “Palestinian Authority Fights its Own People in Struggle to Survive” the latest dispatch with truly brilliant journalist @beduinmotion (Fatima Abdulkarim) & Shayndi Raice for @wsjphotos Wall Street journal in Tulkaram refugee camp. First photo, Tulkaram Brigade, made up of fighters from several Palestinian factions. This was the aftermath. Always a pleasure when working w photo editor like @marinavitaglione . Smart, nuanced….poetic.

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MANDY BARKER created a camera from plastic waste — and it makes magic! Coming to the @sainsburycentre •@mandybarkerphotography Once plastic pollution afloat in the sea, the CROWN 2.5L camera is on the move again. Created from marine plastic debris this working film camera is on its way to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, its new home for the next 5 months. The camera was used on Henderson Island, one of the remotest locations on the planet, and it will be displayed alongside prints taken there.

The camera was constructed from objects recovered from 9 different oceans around the world with the main component and field of view through a plastic poultry feeder found washed up from the North Sea, and imprinted with the words ‘CROWN 2.5L Taiwan’. A toy car wheel was the first plastic object recovered in a cave on Henderson, and this completed the construction of the camera, making it ready to use by turning the wheel to focus.

The images generated from this project aren’t intended to be perfect. The concept is to reflect an ‘imperfect’ world, using the camera itself to bring a different approach and engagement to the issue of marine plastic pollution.

The Exhibition ‘Planet for Our Future: The Stuff of Life / The Life of Stuff’ opens on 10th September – until 14 January 2024 at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, Norfolk, England @sainsburycentre #plasticpollution #camera #film @unep @plasticpollutes #climatechange

Congratulations to @habjouqa
Featured by @natgeo @forfreedoms link will be in our bio shortly.

• @forfreedoms How has Texas changed in 20 years? Tanya Habjouqa (@habjouqa) went home to find out.

After decades as a photojournalist in the Middle East, Habjouqa turns her lens to the place of her youth, where she says, “If you weren’t part of the privileged few, you were forgotten.” In her photo essay for @natgeo, Habjouqa reflects on the two months that she spent reconnecting with old friends in Fort Worth, examining the racial and economic fault lines of a place that she had once called home.

These images are featured in one of eight stories from "The Past Is Present," our collaboration with @natgeo unveiling distinct stories about America’s past and strengthening our understanding of the present.

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