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FIRSTPHOTOJOURNALISM NIGHTS
Photojournalism Hub holds the first Photojournalism Nights Event on the 21st May at Elephant West Gallery, London White City!
The first event dedicated purely to photojournalism is the culmination of an ambition of Photojournalism Hub founder and director, Cinzia D’Ambrosi to re-ignite the passion for this form of journalism. The event was a real success with the large gallery full of people, who engaged to high quality photojournalism and Q&A. The public also had the opportunity to win an original print of the guest photojournalists through a raffle ticket, printed with the support of Genesis Imaging. The renowned and respected Photo Archive News supported the event by selecting and publishing the work of one of the guests photographers.
Injustices & Inequalities: Covid-19 – Edition7
INJUSTICES & INEQUALITIES: COVID-19
EDITION 7
©Flor Castaneda
As Coronavirus continues to spread throughout the world, it is increasing social injustices and bringing inequalities to the forefront. In the 7th edition of the Journal on “Injustice & Inequalities: Covid-19”, we present the work of three great photographers who share the tremendous challenges of those in the grips of poverty, homelessness. The pandemic has widened social inequalities. And injustices are strongly lived among the most poor hit hard by the pandemic and regulations that do not protect them.
The divide is becoming greater. These are issues we need to see, reflect upon and action.
Photo editor: Cinzia D’Ambrosi
Zaragoza, Spain
Cris Aznar
Since the state of alarm ended and the courts reopened, dozens of evictions have been scheduled, of families in vulnerable situations, with women survivors of gender violence, refugee families, young pregnant women, elderly people with health problems. The pandemic has increased inequalities, has further impoverished those most at risk, and institutions are not able to manage this problem, and don´t offer a housing alternative, so these families are forced to occupy empty homes belonging to the bank, sharing a house with many more people -increasing the risk of contagion-, or staying homeless. A decree has recently been approved that prevents evictions due to covid without a housing alternative, but … what happens to families who have been dragging this situation since before this pandemic?
All Photographs ©Cris Aznar
Cris Aznar. 1981. Zaragoza. Photographer. Artivist.Independent communicator. A woman who looks and observes, studies photography to feel and understand, to express in her exhibitions and react to reality with senses and feelings, gray lights and gender colors that shape her involvement as a person in the defense of human rights. His eyes have passed through Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Energy, intention and heart in photography, seeks real reporting, documentary and humanism focused on art as a form of expression and engine of change.
Cris Aznar
Web: www.crisaznar.com
Instagram: @crisaznarphotographer link: https://www.instagram.com/crisaznarphotographer/
Facebook: Cris Aznar – Link: https://www.facebook.com/Cris.Aznar/
Mompiche: quarantine days
Barbara Traver
Mompiche is a fishing village located south of the city of Esmeraldas in Ecuador, where I spent two months of quarantine with the local people. This place was affected due to the health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, since its main source of income is a tourism and artisanal fisheries, reducing its activity between half of March and April. More than 4000 fishermen in the area had to stop working. They have had problems buying food for their family because they are still stranded without being able to fish and more than 70 other fishermen have left the activity in which they have been catching for more than 20 years. The artisanal fishermen are a vulnerable group since they have few labor rights and most have no social security or labor insurance.
After the closure of the borders very little food arrives and its price increases more and
more. The limited circumstances lead us to collaborate with the fishermen in their work to obtain our portion of fish, becoming our first activity of the day.
©Barbara Traver
The beach of Mompiche, where all the boats come and go.
©Barbara Traver
A fisherman handing out Carita (a typical fish in peaceful waters) to one of his helpers that day.
©Barbara Traver
Barbara Traver – I am not from here or there, I was born in Madrid (Spain), but since I was nine years old I have lived in various places in Spain and also outside of Spain. Currently, my base is between Valencia, Spain, where I settled in 2014 to study at the Espai d’art fotogràfic school and finished in 2017 with the Master in Photography: Creation and Production. At the end of 2017, I moved to Madrid to take the course “Creativity and strategies in contemporary photography” at the EFTI school, taught by Javier Vallhonrat. Thanks to this course, I started to develop my project “, te quiere, mamá”, showing it in several festivals like the seminar of photography and photojournalism in Albarracín or in the cultural hall CC Pati Llimona, in Barcelona. I have also been invited as an artist in the project “Un mundo paralelo” (Spain, 2017) curated by Joan Fontcuberta I have also self-published two photobooks, exhibited in different national and international spaces, and giving several talks.
Bárbara Traver
Fotógrafa y educadora visual
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THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE PANDEMIC
FLOR CASTANEDA
It is early in the streets and the cold of a January morning creeps into the bones and Dona Juana Serrano, who is 63 years old, has already started one more day of work. She is one of the “little ants” who travel the city every day with a broom, sack and dustpan and has done it with pleasure for more than 28 years, she is the person who has worked the longest in the cleaning crew of the city. The pandemic has not slowed down her work or her spirits: “I really like my job, because I had nothing and all I have is thanks to what I do, it is also like cleaning my house, the street is my house and I like to take care of her “- says” Juanita “as the merchants call her who greet her as they pass.
Despite her age and the risk that she implies, she continues with her work. 2 months ago one of her colleagues contracted COVID while doing her work and even had to be hospitalized to recover; “I do want to get vaccinated, because I’m always on the street and I don’t want to make anyone sick in my house, I’ve already lost many of my people”, says Juanita, referring to her husband who died of influenza a month ago and her brother died from complications with diabetes a week ago, she lives with her two older children and a one-year-old grandson.
Due to the health crisis, of 100% of the manual sweeping cleaning staff, only 40% is active to avoid contagion, so the workers divide the 32 cleaning areas that make up the historic center. A good strategy would be to prioritize the application of the vaccine among municipal cleaning personnel, due to the nature of their work and the risk it entails.
All Photographs ©Flor Castaneda
Flor Castaneda
Insta: florc_84
Photo editor: Cinzia D’Ambrosi
Women Photographers Covering Women’s Violence, Trauma and Grief
The Invention Rooms
68 Wood Lane
W12 7TA
02 March 2020 18:30-20:30
Women photographers discuss their challenges, reflections and roles on covering stories of violence against women.
The Photojournalism Hub is very honored to present three great women photojournalist that have worked on some of the most difficult and excruciating modern women stories to share their experiences, insights and challenges.
Suzanne Plunkett, is an award winning photojournalist who has worked as a staff photographer for the Associated Press in New York where she covered the Sept.11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001 and then as the chief photographer for the AP in Jakarta where she covered the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Based in London since 2006, she has worked as a senior staff photographer for Bloomberg News in London and a staff photographer for Reuters. Currently, she shoots for The New York Times, the RHS, Chatham House and leads the London chapter of Women Photograph which works to elevate the voices of women+ non binary visual storytellers.
Chiara Ceolin, is a documentary photographer who has a background of working for nearly ten years as a psychologist specialised in PTSD and trauma. Chiara has worked extensively with projects in rural Tanzania, Romania and London adopting participatory methods to empower and heal young girls and women through visual storytelling. Currently, Chiara’s work focuses on women who survived trauma as well as contributing to clients such as Thomson Reuters Foundation, Westminster University, The Evening Standard, Magic Me charity, BBC Children in Need, Forward UK and many others.
Quintina Valero, o, is an award-winning photojournalist whose work focuses on human rights, displacement, women and environmental issue. She has a proven passion for bringing important stories often collaborating with local NGOs. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Sunday Times, Thomson Reuters Foundation, BBC, Stern Magazine and El Pais among others. Her latest projects have taken her to Central America and the Colombian Amazon documenting the different layers of conflict. Her work on sex trafficking and the impact of Chernobyl’s nuclear accident has received international awards including the Lensculture Emerging Talent, Festival della Fotografia Etica (Italy) and the Photo Press Contest Award (Ukraine).
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Understanding, Confronting and Questioning Notions of Identity
The Invention Rooms
68 Wood Lane
W12 7TA
27 January 2020 18:30-20:30
How photography can be used as a tool to address questions of belonging, place and the histories we learn and inherit.
A talk event exploring how experiences of citizenship, nationality and identity can inform notions of identity. The speakers’ powerful work is directly influenced by personal journeying and displacement, and a quest to build understanding around notions of identity. The Photojournalism Hub is very pleased to present:
Zula Rabikowska, photographer, born in Poland, grew up in the UK and worked in France, China, South Africa, India, Palestine and the Caribbean. Citizens of Nowhere is a project about experiences of citizenship, nationality and identity on a political, cultural and social level and is a personal response to the 2016 Brexit referendum where 51.9% of the British population voted to leave the European Union, and the increased racism and xenophobia that followed.
Adam Razvi, documentary photographer, will present work that addresses issues of belonging, and disputes the rose-tinted nostalgia still commonly associated with the British Empire. Adam’s work aims to build understanding of how culture, nationality and the past inform notions of identity, He explains “As a person of mixed-heritage I have become increasingly conscious of a sense of belonging and place, raising a number of questions – often without clear resolutions. At the core of this questioning, visual perceptions, including how British I look and feel and how this impacts everyday interactions and my roles in society.”
Photojournalism and Movements of Activism and Protest Today
The Invention Rooms
68 Wood Lane
W12 7TA
16th December 2019 18:30 – 20:30
©Talia Woodin
Exploring today’s form of rebellion, resilience and resistance through photojournalism.
Part of a series of talk events exploring photojournalism as a tool of activism, the Photojournalism Hub presents three photographers whose work is currently actively engaged with documenting and raising awareness of climate change, food waste, women’s rights and forms of protest and resilience.
Angela Christofilou, is half English, half Greek actor, voice artist, photographer and singer/songwriter (Field Trip to the Moon band) living in London. Self taught, she first experimented with street photography in the US while on a theatre tour and then began documenting protests at the end of 2015. She mainly focuses on street, social documentary and protest photography and is often covering major protests for the Independent Angela’s protest photography over the years is currently being archived at the Bishopsgate Institute.
Chris King, is a documentary and portrait photographer and video producer, whose work focuses on the food system. He has documented the issue of food waste for several years, and is now starting an initiative called Documenting Climate Change that aims to mobilise, support and train documentary storytellers of all disciplines to create more engaging, impactful stories on the issue of climate change.
Talia Woodin, is a photographer , activist and works full time as media and messaging coordinator for Extinction Rebellion Youth. Since October 2018, Talia has worked as a photographer for Extinction Rebellion, whom regularly features her work.
Photojournalism and Activism in Today’s Forms of Resistance
The Invention Rooms
68 Wood Lane
W12 7TA
19th November 2019 18:30 – 20:30
Exploring today’s form of rebellion, resilience and resistance through photojournalism.
Part of a series of talk events exploring photojournalism as a tool of activism in today’s movements and forms of resistance, resilience and rebellion, the Photojournalism Hub present four guest speakers whose work bring testimony and engagement to current moments and events of fortitude and activism.
Alice Marcelino is a London based photographer, born in Luanda, Angola, moved to Portugal at a very early age. She experienced and explored various art forms, from dance to theatre, until adopting photography as her main form of expression. Her images and photo stories explore concepts of identity and sub-cultures, and their meaning in our globalised world.
Pierre Alozie is a Franco-Nigerian photojournalist based in London, whose work spans years covering social, political, cultural issues including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution and Kosovo war.
Vindhya Buthpitiya is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at University College London researching the interweaving of conflict, popular photographic practices and political articulation among the Northern Tamil community in postwar Sri Lanka.
Zainab Ravat is a geography graduate who last year won first place in the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG ) Social and Cultural Geography Research Group Dissertation Prize for her dissertation entitled ‘Photojournalism: Explorations into the Geographical Witness, Activist and Traveller’.
Women Photographers Perspectives on Mental Well-being
The Invention Rooms
68 Wood Lane
W12 7TA
08th October 2019 18:30 – 21:00
© Sue Shorvon 
© Nieves Mingueza 
© Marie Smith
How does ethnicity, culture, gender determine the responses and the services experienced?
Three women photographers present their powerful projects on mental well-being opening a discussion on race, austerity, marginalisation and immigration.
Marie Smith presents Whispering for help, a series which consists of annotated portrait project with women of colour aged 18 years and above. The project involves recording women of colour experience with mental health, a mixture of black and white film portraits and hand written texts by the sitter. This project will seek to create a series that explores experiences of mental health services in UK as well as providing a platform for dialogue to dismantle the stigma of mental health in BAME communities.
Nieves Mingueza presents The malady of Suzanne, a poetic documentary project. By combining found archives with her own photography work in Vietnam, she is exploring the story of a Vietnamese female with mental issues in 70’s London. This is an on-going project about the complex relationship between memory, immigration, mental health and human conflicts.
Sue Shorvon, her photo artwork aims to encourage self-exploration of people’s perceptions and assumptions, as a way forward to destigmatizing mental illness in society.
– If people like the music, they will listen to the words.”
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Today’s Youth Crime and Violence
The Invention Rooms 68 Wood Lane W12 7TA
17th September 2019 18:30 – 21:00
Perspectives on the current narrative surrounding youth crime and violence.
A talk event bringing a committed and compassionate team sharing their experiences, insights and expertise working on the issue of violence and youths. Followed by a discussion on current narratives and the often unreported existing reality of youths living in the capital. What can we learn from the direct experience and insight of those working on reporting youth and violence in the capital? Guest Speakers:Raheel Butt, director and founder of Community and Rehabilitation Solutions. Raheel is an ex-gang member who has experienced violence since young age: groomed, gangs, racial abuse, radicalisation. In a catalyst moment in prison, he changed his life around and he has since been working with communities to reduce the risk and associated harms of crime and violence by working with those most at risk of involvement. Dr. Roger Grimshaw, Research Director at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, www.crimeandjustice.org.uk. Roger has been responsible for a wide range of research studies on criminological and social welfare topics. Robin Friend, photographer, working on a project that explores the knife epidemic and unprecedented level of youth violence that is taking place across London. Robin is focusing on real life testimonies, bringing in analysis of causes for this issue as well as reporting on the positive stories from the work of many charities working on this issue. Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, is an investigative reporter and editor working on a range of subjects including: immigration detention, migrants’ rights, mental health, access to legal aid, social housing and gender inequality. She co-edits Shine A Light, an award-winning investigative journalism & storytelling platform on openDemocracy.net and is writer-in-residence at Lacuna, a human rights magazine.
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Picturing Community Engagement
WestWorks
White City Place
201 Wood Lane W12 7FQ
12th April 2019 18:30 – 21:00
A panel composed of leading charity organisations and photographers who have made participation and collaboration inherent to their visual practice will discuss their current participatory projects and explore future possibilities.
Andy Fearn, Direct.or & co-founder of ProtectionApproaches.org, runs the Outreach and Learning programme working with schools, young people, marginalised communities, decision shapers in media and culture, and the wider UK public seeking to increase understanding of the processes that lead to prejudice and Identity based violence.
Becky Warnock, is a London based visual artist and activist, whose work engages with the politics of representation and questions of identity and her practice is rooted in participation and community engagement.
Grace Gelder, is a freelance photographer and educator and who has exhibited and published in the UK and abroad. Her practice explores inter-personal relationships, dynamics and the intersection of photography and other disciplines and regularly designs and leads course for galleries, museums and universities.
Ingrid Guyon, is a photographer, filmmaker and participatory visual media practitioner of passionate advocate of a better world through community engagement and self-representation. In 2009, she established Fotosynthesis, a social enterprise that specialises in participatory photography.
Tom Elkins, Chief Executive Officer, PhotoVoice.org, has worked for a number of voluntary sector organisations, focusing on issues relating to equality, disability, and empowering individuals and communities to campaign for better services and policies.
Kallina Brailsford, Chair, founder of HumanCamera.org and a PHD candidate in Participatory Photography and young people
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