Photographer Glenna Gordon, no stranger to AIAC, is working on a new project in Staten Island, home to the largest population of Liberians outside of Liberia. I asked her if I could publish some of the work here. You can view the full set here. She also sent this note: Most New Yorkers still think […]
A humanitarian crisis has many faces. In Tunisia now, fleeing immigrants have overrun the border crossing of Ras Ajdir in an attempt to escape the strife in Libya. The travelers are mostly male Egyptian laborers but also migrant workers from Tunisia, Bangladesh, China. They arrive in overcrowded cars and buses and on foot, dragging suitcases. […]
The Photographers’ Gallery, the largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography, recently named the shortlisted artists for its annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Now in its 15th year, the prize will be on display from 2 April until 29 April 2011, with the winner announced on 26 April. Among the four nominated artists is Jim […]
The work of photographer Jim Goldberg who documents the experiences of people who travel to Europe to start new lives, in search of stability and “the promise of a better future.” They end up in Greece. Some of the refugees and migrants are from Africa (Liberia, Congo, Mauritania, among others). Goldberg published the photographs as a […]
From Williamson’s “Better Lives,” consisting of a set of photographs and audio interviews with a group of migrants, exiles and refugees, that will inaugurate a new gallery space, YoungBlackMan, in Cape Town, South Africa, next week. (The gallery, based on “… the business model of gross capital loss,” is a project of two white guys: […]
