Tim Page took some of the most confronting images of the Vietnam War. As a young photojournalist he spent six years covering the conflict for outlets including TIME-LIFE, UPI, PARIS MATCH and ASSOCIATED PRESS, and became one of a small group of iconic photographers whose arresting images of war woke the world up to what was going on.
Page was also a man made mythical before his time, the inspiration for Dennis Hopper’s photojournalist in Apocalypse Now, he had a reputation for getting closer to the action than most of his colleagues. Embedded with the US military, he went everywhere, covering everything. As a result, he was injured four times, once or twice almost fatally.
Since then Page has spent decades covering events from Timor-Leste to Afghanistan and Cuba to Cambodia. His photographs are held by London’s Tate Gallery and Washington’s Smithsonian. He was recently named as one of The 100 most influential photographers of all time and has been the subject of many documentaries, two films and the author of ten books. He now lives in Brisbane Australia and this is his first visit back to the UK in 14 years.
Tim will be talking to journalist Jon Swain about his work and career, focussing on Vietnam and Cambodia. A selection of his prints will be on sale following the event.
Marines coming ashore March ’65
The battle to defeat ISIS in the region lasted years, resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and ruined vast tracts of cities such as Mosul and Raqqa. Involving some of most brutal urban combat since World War II, the fall of Mosul was key to the downfall of the Islamic State: soon after the remains of the so-called “Caliphate” began to crumble.
Ivor’s work focuses on the human struggles of conflict. Taken on the frontline, his pictures legitimately and compellingly record the experience of being “caught in the crossfire,” whether as a soldier or non-combatant. He furthermore captures post-war reality while attempting to reconstruct the final weeks of combat: the devastated cities including abandoned corpses of ISIS fighters, and, months later, families searching for missing loved ones, and civilians returning to reclaim their homes and lives.
Ivor will be joined in conversation with Anthony Loyd, senior foreign correspondent for The Times, to discuss the challenges of working on the frontline and the human stories behind his images. Copies of End of the Caliphate will be available at the event.
Speakers
Ivor Prickett is a freelance photographer for The New York Times. He has been based in the Middle East since 2009, where he documented the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Libya, working simultaneously on editorial assignments and his own projects. Traveling to more than 10 countries between 2012 and 2015, he also documented the Syrian refugee crisis. With a particular interest in the aftermath of war and its humanitarian consequences, his early projects focused on stories of displaced people throughout the Balkans and Caucasus. Ivor’s work has been recognised through a number of prestigious awards including POYI, Foam Talent, the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and the Ian Parry Scholarship. His pictures have been exhibited widely at institutions such as the Getty Gallery in London, Foam Gallery in Amsterdam and the National Portrait Gallery in London. He is represented by Panos Pictures in London.
Anthony Loyd is senior foreign correspondent for The Times. His career began in 1993 when he started reporting from the war in Bosnia. Since then he has written from innumerable conflict zones, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Chechnya and Kosovo. He is author of My War Gone By I Miss It So and Another Bloody Love Letter. He has witnessed the atrocities committed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the brutal rise of the self-styled Islamic State and the desperate struggle of the Syrian people caught between the two.
Civilians who had remained in west Mosul during the battle to retake the city, lined up for an aid distribution in the Mamun neighbourhood. Iraq – March 2017
Nadhira Rasoul looked on as Iraqi Civil Defence workers dug out the bodies of her sister and niece from her house in the Old City of Mosul, where they were killed by an airstrike in June 2017. Iraq – September 2017
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Six extraordinary projects are shortlisted for this year’s Visionary Award from the Tim Hetherington Trust. The six shortlisted for the award will present their work and talk abut their approaches that attracted the interest of the jury.
The panel has now been announced!
- Stephen Mayes, Executive Director of the Tim Hetherington Trust will be joined by two of the judges of this year’s award to introduce the work:
- Francis Hodgson – Professor In The Culture of Photography, University of Brighton
- Dan Archer – Founder and Principal of www.empatheticmedia.com
The six projects are:
- HUMANITY LOST, HUMANITY FOUND: 25 years after Rwanda’s genocide
by Gadi Habumugisha, Mussa Uwitonze & Bizimana Jean
https://thegroundtruthproject.org/humanity-lost-humanity-found-25-years-after-rwandas-genocide/
- RUNNING TO NOWHERE – the Central American Refugee Crisis.
by Christina Simons
http://www.christinasimons.com/running-to-nowhere-the-central-american-refugee-crisis - UKRAINE.
by Christopher Nunn.
http://www.christophernunn.co.uk/ukraine-2013-2015/lwmex7ikzys73vl9iqvdoqj9m395nu - NECESSARY FICTIONS: Pineland.
by Debi Cornwall
https://www.debicornwall.com/Necessary-Fictions/3-Pineland/1 - LIVING LULLABIES.
by Hannah Reyes Morales
http://hannah.ph/ - FIREFLIES: A Brownsville Story.
by People’s Culture
http://www.peoplesculture.org/firefly.html
The Tim Hetherington Trust continues Tim’s mission to inquire more deeply and to communicate more effectively by showcasing similarly inspirational work by today’s generation of visual storytellers. To this end, the Visionary Award identifies journalists and artists breaking new ground in diverse visual disciplines. We’re very proud to hosting this event in memory of Tim which will allow intimate questioning with these extraordinary people – followed by more casual discussion in the Frontline bar.
© Christopher Nunn
]]>Join Filipino photojournalist Raffy Lerma, chair of the Ethical Journalists Network Dorothy Byrne (Head of Channel 4 News and Current Affairs) and founder of the Photo Ethics Centre Savannah Dodd to try and understand life behind the lens – and the ethical challenges of looking through it – while covering horrific stories of human rights abuses.
In May 2016, Rodrigo Duterte, then-mayor of Davao City, won a landslide victory in the Philippine presidential elections on a campaign centered on the eradication of drugs in the country; a goal which the President maintains must be achieved even if authorities resort to violence.
“Forget the laws on human rights,” he said at his final campaign rally. “If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor [of Davao]. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I’d kill you. I’ll dump all of you into Manila Bay, and fatten all the fish there.” Since then, a wave of killings has engulfed the country.
By November 2018, government figures revealed that 5,050 drug personalities have been killed in anti-drug operations – mostly from poor families in urban centers across the country. 23,327 homicide cases are still under investigation, including those killed by unidentified gunmen and vigilantes.
During the discussion, we’ll be showcasing Raffy Lerma’s photographs humanising the victims of the violent anti-drug policy and calling for accountability. We will also hear from Olivier Sarbil and James Jones the makers of “On The President’s Orders“, a film which documents President Duterte’s bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war – the Manila police, and an ordinary family from the slum.
On The President’s Orders – Official Trailer from Mongoose Pictures on Vimeo.
Chair:
Dorothy Byrne is Chair of the Ethical Journalism Network and Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4. She was appointed in September 2003, having previously edited the award-winning Dispatches. During her tenure, the Channel’s news and current affairs programmes have won numerous BAFTA, RTS, Emmy Awards and others. In 2014, Dispatches won the RTS Journalism Awards for both best Home and best International Current Affairs, the first time one strand won both awards, and Channel Four News won the RTS Journalism Award for Best News Programme of the Year for the second year running.
Speakers:
Raffy Lerma is a freelance photographer based in Manila, Philippines. He began his career in photojournalism as a student of the College of Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines Diliman. Raffy finished his Diploma in Photojournalism at the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University. For 12 years, Raffy worked as a staff photographer for Philippine Daily Inquirer covering the daily news beat in Metro Manila. He has recently shifted into working independently to focus on his documentation of the Philippines’ “war on drugs.”. Raffy has been featured in The New York Times documentary “When a President Says, I’ll Kill You” and in the BBC World Series radio documentary “Trolls, ‘the Devil,’ and Death.” He has been giving talks in different parts of the Philippines and the world to help disseminate to a broader audience the realities of the drug war in the country.
Savannah Dodd is a photographer and anthropologist. She brought her two passions together in 2017 when she founded the Photography Ethics Centre, a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about ethics across the photography industry and around the world. Prior to founding the Centre, she completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in anthropology, and she worked in the development sector for NGOs and IGOs in Switzerland, Turkey, and Thailand. Alongside her work in the Photography Ethics Centre, she is pursuing her PhD in anthropology studying the politics of representation in photographs of conflict and post-conflict contexts at Queen’s University Belfast.
James Jones is an Emmy-winning British director who makes documentary films for international television and theatrical release. He has made films all over the world – from North Korea, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Gaza, to the Philippines. He has just finished a feature documentary on Duterte’s drug war with Olivier Sarbil – On The President’s Orders – for FRONTLINE PBS, ARTE France, BBC Storyville and Bertha DOC SOCIETY. The film will have its festival premiere in March 2019.
Olivier Sarbil is an award-winning French documentary director and Emmy-winning cinematographer based in London. Olivier has covered conflicts and critical social issues across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. He has just finished a feature documentary on Duterte’s drug war with James Jones, ‘On The President’s Orders’. The film will premiere in March 2019.
photograph courtesy of Raffy Lerma
]]>Join photojournalist Lynsey Addario in conversation with Fiona Shields as she showcases her latest work in her collection Of Love and War.
Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her disarming and compelling photographs and her uncanny ability to personalise even the most remote corners of our world. In OF LOVE AND WAR, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist returns with a stunning collection of more than two hundred of her photographs from across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa from the last twenty years. In her distinctively dramatic style, Addario documents families living in Afghanistan under the Taliban; the stark truths of sub-Saharan Africa; the daily reality of women in the Middle East; U.S. military units on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan; the faces and bodies of the refugee crisis; and much more.
Through Addario’s eyes we bear witness to the human cost of war in gripping, full-colour photographs and in the form of field notes, personal letters and emails Addario has written over the years. The book also features revelatory essays from esteemed writers such as Dexter Filkins, Aryn Baker, and Lydia Polgreen, and public figures such as Christy Turlington. OF LOVE & WAR is a compelling statement about the world, and all its inescapable chaos and conflict, from one of the most brilliant and influential journalists working today in any medium.
Fiona Shields
Fiona Shields is Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group For over twenty years,Fiona has been picture editing across a range of newspaper titles and was picture editor of the Guardian for the last nine before taking up her role Throughout her career she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time. Fiona has judged the Sony World Photography Awards, the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards, the Renaissance Photography Prize to name a few. Last year she was a a nominator for the Prix Pictet and joined the jury of The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize.
]]>Photo London will be hosting a night at the Frontline Club, to mark the opening of the festival at Somerset House 17 – 20 May
Join the debate about the state and future of photojournalism, as explored in conversation with award winning photographers and editors. The world of professional 21st century photojournalism is more global than a decade ago, fuelled extensively by technology from the proliferation of digital equipment through to the social media circus via the intergalactic universe. We explore the challenges and opportunities this provides and what to expect in the future.
Chair
Francesca Sears
Francesca is Special Projects Director at Magnum Photos. She works with some of the world’s most respected and accomplished photographers. She has helped them to communicate stories that combine international press coverage, with online platforms, social media and cultural outputs.
Panel
Carol Allen-Storey
Freelance Photojournalist Carol is an award-winning photographer specialising in chronicling complex humanitarian and social issues. Her essays about genocide, post conflict, poverty, orphans, the HIV/AIDS pandemic are widely published and exhibited globally. Carol works intimately with international NGOs, some including The Elton John AIDS Foundation, Save the Children, Comic Relief and International Alert; capturing imagery that platforms their work to raise public awareness and as a potent fund-raising tool. In 2009 she was appointed a UNICEF ambassador for photography.
Alys Tomlinson
Alys combines work as a commercial photographer with long term, fine art documentary projects. Her work is mostly concerned with the relationship between people and place, drawing on themes of memory, belonging and identity. She recently completed an MA in Anthropology at SOAS and her long-term project about Christian pilgrimage sites ‘Ex-Voto’ has received a number of awards. Alys has just been named Sony/WPO Photographer of the Year 2018.
Liz Hingley
Liz Hingley is an independent photographer working on long-term projects that explore sensitive social issues, such as migration, home and contemporary urban ritual, through the depiction of everyday lives. She has received numerous awards including the Getty Editorial Award, Photo-philanthropy Award, Ian Parry Award and Prix Virginia. Liz works with media publications, NGO’s, Universities and Arts Institutions to produce multidisciplinary projects. Her books include ‘Under Gods, Stories from Soho Road’, ‘Shanghai’, ‘Home Made in Smethwick’ and ‘Shanghai Sacred’.
Fiona Shields
Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group For over twenty years,Fiona has been picture editing across a range of newspaper titles and was picture editor of the Guardian for the last nine before taking up her role Throughout her career she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time. Fiona has judged the Sony World Photography Awards, the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards, the Renaissance Photography Prize to name a few. Last year she was a a nominator for the Prix Pictet and joined the jury of The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize.
Timothy Large
Timothy Large is Editor-in-Chief of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence Large is an award-winning journalist, editor and media development specialist with a long record of bringing under-reported issues to life. He has two decades of experience in newspaper, news agency and online media. He was previously Director of Journalism and Media Programmes at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. At the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, Tim overseeing long-form investigative features by journalists across south-eastern Europe in partnership with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and Open Society Foundations.
Photo Credit: Alys Tomlinson – SONY Photographer of the Year 2018
]]>In HONDROS director and childhood friend Greg Campbell reveals a portrait of a man – Chris Hondros who found and explored humanity in war-torn countries with great depth and sensitivity. Hondros’ passion for his craft could only be matched by his unending talent for creating breathtaking imagery. Hondros is the 2017 documentary winner at Tribeca Film Festival.
Chris Hondros was an award-winning conflict photographer who covered nearly every major world of event of our time before he was killed covering the civil war in Libya on April 20, 2011. As a senior staff photographer for Getty images, Chris was frequently recognised by his peers for photographs that are examined in depth in HONDROS. Among the many awards and citations he earned for his work, Chris won the Overseas Press Club’s 2003 John Faber Award for his work in Liberia, the 2006 Robert Capa Gold Medal for his work in Iraq and he was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Director: Greg Campbell is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and bestselling nonfiction author making his directorial debut with the feature-length film HONDROS. Campbell is co-founder of Denver-based production company Fox Tale Films and the author of “Blood Diamonds; Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones,” the book that inspired the Leonardo DiCaprio film BLOOD DIAMOND. As a journalist and filmmaker, Campbell has reported from around the world, including throughout Africa and the Middle East. He lives in Denver.
Executive Producer: Riva Marker is the Peabody Award-winning film producer and President of Nine Stories, the production company she launched with Jake Gyllenhaal in 2015. Prior to Nine Stories, Marker produced Cary Fukunaga’s BEASTS OF NO NATION, which won both SAG and Indie Spirit Awards for its star, Idris Elba; Michael Showalter’s comedy HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS, starring Sally Field; and she was an executive producer on Lisa Cholodenko’s Academy Award-nominated THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT.
Run Time: 89 minutes
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Daughters of Bangladesh Garment Factory Workers is a short documentary which follows the personal stories of 5 girls aged between 7 and 15. The film gives an intimate insight into their world, their relationships with their mothers and how factory work shapes their lives. Daughters of Bangladesh is Lensational’s first video journalism project featuring and created by the daughters themselves. This film advocates for corporations to commit to supply chain transparency as well as advancing the welfare of the most vulnerable workers and their families.
Lensational is an award-winning, non-profit social enterprise, with the mission of empowering women through photography and videography. For Daughters of Bangladesh Garment Factory Workers, they have partnered with Rainbow Collective, a documentary producer focused on human, children and social rights, to create a film as a part of an ongoing media training scheme at Nagorik Uddyog, offering children of garment workers a route into further education.
The Q&A discussion following the film will focus on the unheard voices of overlooked women in journalism and how to get these narratives into the public eye. The girls in the film are able to share their personal stories with the world on how garment factory work affects their lives indirectly, reflecting a variety of emotions and capturing moments of intimate visual stories. Our speakers, with a range of journalistic experiences will focus on how best to continue to empower women such as the girls in the film.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldp2-a1DG2c&app=desktop
Moderator
Lucile Stengel: Head of Social Media and editor Lensational
Lucile currently works for the BBC World Service, where she dedicates her time to understanding and better servicing the BBC’s audience in developing countries, as well as developing a new impact framework for the organisation. Lucile has a particular interest in the interplay of gender, culture, and the media, an area she has been researching since university. She holds a BSc in Political Science, a MA in Global Communications and Strategy, and a MSc in Local Economic Development from Sciences Po and the LSE. She has developed a repertoire of research and strategy skills in her previous experiences across the media and third sector, and regularly contributes to gender and social justice publications.
Speakers
Richard York is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Rainbow Collective
Alongside their own award-winning broadcast and cinematic documentaries (Al Jazeera, Britdoc, SABC), Rainbow Collective have designed and facilitated projects in countries including Bangladesh, Jamaica, South Africa, Cambodia and Turkey, empowering marginalised children and adults to produce powerful and effective documentaries and animation. The films their students produce have proved equally at home screening at international film festivals as they are at the centre of campaigns for real social change. Since 2008 Rainbow Collective have worked closely with garment working communities and trade unions to improve working and living conditions through films and training projects, including playing a key role in the successful campaign to secure full compensation for the families affected and bereaved by the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh.
Max Houghton
photo credit Steph Smith
Max Houghton runs the MA Programme in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She writes, edits and curates, and collaborates with photographers.
We want to give photographers a welcoming platform to practice their pitching skills while receiving valuable feedback from a panel of online editors, curators and publishers. Photographers’ Night is a great opportunity to determine which outlet is best suited for bringing your project to the right audience.
Photographers who would like to present their work to discuss in a 7 minute pitch should submit one project prior to the event. They will then be given a time slot and all presenters will be listed online. Those who would like to join as a general attendee can book online for £5. After each pitch, there will be a few minutes for questions and feedback from industry guests and others. Industry professionals will be present at tables respective to the platforms of their expertise, and everyone is encouraged to visit across these groups to have a chat and a drink.
To sign up for a pitching slot please email julianne.rooney@www.beta.frontlineclub.com with a paragraph summary of one project and stills/website link, under the subject heading ‘Photographers’ Night’. Priority will be given to new, story-led projects of journalistic nature.
Industry Guests
Kate Brooks began working as a freelance photojournalist in Russia while documenting child abuse in state orphanages. The resulting photographs were published worldwide and used by the Human Rights Watch to campaign for orphans’ rights. Brooks has been the recipient of numerous international awards, and her photographs are regularly published in American and European magazines. Her photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe, the U.A.E and U.S. She researched the poaching of elephants and rhinos for the documentary film project The Last Animals that she is now working on between assignments in the Middle East.
Hannah Watson is Director of Trolley Books.
Sarah Tilotta is an award-winning multimedia producer, currently working as a photo editor for CNN International, and as a freelance photographer based in London. She has previously worked as a visual journalist at NPR, and in sales and communications roles for photographer-owned agency, NOOR Images in Amsterdam. Her work has been published internationally and focuses on themes of migration and human rights, including long-term projects on asylum-seekers in Europe and statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Alina Kisina is an award winning Ukrainian-British artist photographer working in the UK since 2003. Since 2014, Alina has been the official photographer for the Subtitle Film, Cat Laughs Comedy and Kilkenomics Economics Festivals in Ireland with work published in The Guardian and The Economist. Currently a Public Programme Artist at Chisenhale Art Place, Alina runs public masterclasses and workshops with partners including London Photomonth and Whitechapel Gallery.
Photographers Pitching
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Mahboba, age 7, stands against a bullet-ridden wall waiting to be seen at a health clinic suffering from has a disfiguring skin disease called Leishmaniasis which is a parasitical bacterial infection transmitted from tiny sand fleas.
Interviewed by her friend and fellow reporter, the Sunday Times‘ roving foreign affairs correspondent Christina Lamb, Bronstein provided the audience an insight into daily life in Afghanistan. Spanning the 15 years since the 9/11 attacks in New York, the country her photos showed was harrowing; a baby suffering from severe malnutrition, women widowed by war, heroin addicts huddled around a mass of burning clothes.
’A lot of these stories are hard, none of them are easy, none of them,’ Bronstein shared, ‘but they’re stories I feel it’s very important to tell.’
But underneath the worsening terror of war, life in Afghanistan goes on. People get married, they celebrate Afghan new year, children play football; conflict has become part of daily life. ‘Kids are gonna be kids (…),’ Bronstein said, ‘they’re not going to stop practising cricket on a Friday afternoon’. Her photographs and words share this side of the country too. Her work is deeply human, capturing incredibly expressive faces, from the tortured loss of a mother watching her child die, to the toothless joy of an old man atop a hill overlooking Kabul.
Bronstein’s work in Afghanistan captures a country living at both extremes. When she first arrived in the country in 2001, the walls ‘were all bullet ridden’. But ‘the mountains are gorgeous, the landscape is exquisite,’ she remarked, ‘and so are the people’.
Her work focuses strongly on the experiences of women living in a still deeply conservative Afghanistan. As a female photographer she has been able to get much closer to their stories than her male counterparts, in many cases behind the burqa. All of the women’s stories she has documented, Bronstein said, has been about ‘getting access, getting inside of the home’. But, she noted that her work was still limited by the question of ‘what will the man allow me to do?’
Afghan women in burqas walk in front of the Darulaman Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on February 3, 2002 on a breezy winter day. The palace lies in ruins, it once was the materpiece of Kabul built by King Amanullah.
But despite the more joyful moments captured in her work, both Bronstein and Lamb seemed despondent about Afghanistan’s future. With the Taliban resurgent, ISIS gaining a foothold, and a crumbling political process, they saw little to have hope in. Sharing the stories of colleagues and friends she had lost in recent years, Bronstein painted a picture of a country gripped by insecurity. And, as Christina Lamb pointed out, ‘The second biggest group of refugees after Syrians are Afghans – they’re not leaving the country because things are good in Afghanistan.’
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