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Photographer John Fielder donates life’s work to History Colorado

September 5, 2024

History Colorado will open an exhibition dedicated to the art of John Fielder.

DENVER — Award-winning landscape photographer John Fielder has made a huge donation to History Colorado.

History Colorado announced it will serve as the steward of more than 5,000 photographs Fielder has taken of the landscapes of every county in Colorado.

The photographs were chosen from more than 200,000 photographs Fielder has taken in the last 50 years. History Colorado said it would digitize and catalog the Colorado images to be easily accessible and searchable by the public.

Fielder’s photography of Colorado has been featured in dozens of

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Brantford model part of record underwater photo shoot in Tobermory

July 23, 2023

Published July 20, 2023 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read

Brantford model Ciara Antoski poses at the bow of a shipwreck at Tobermory in a photo shoot with Hamilton photographer Steve Haining in June 2021. The shoot set a Guinness World Record at 21 feet for 16 minutes. PHOTO BY STEVE HAINING Photo by Steve Haining

A Brantford model, Hamilton photographer and a master scuba diving trainer from Toronto had no idea their underwater photo shoot in June 2021 would set a Guinness World Record.

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Goats and Sodas: NPR

July 7, 2023

Sometimes a (camera’s) eye in the sky can cast new light on the world we live in – highlighting changes or celebrating beauty we might be oblivious to on ground level.

And that’s what you’ll see in the winners of this year’s Drone Photo Award winners. From a bird’s eye view, a bright yellow rice field in Bangladesh turns into a symmetrical pattern, a precisely-designed Polish playground looks like a mosaic of precious stones and a holy religious tradition amid the crumbles of a war-ravaged city in Syria conjures up both sorrow and holiness.

The photography competition, now in its

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‘These works are an act of resistance’: Inside three generations of Iranian female photography | Photography

June 26, 2023

She wears a black coat, a black headscarf and black boots in compliance with Iran’s Islamic dress code. But her gaze is direct and on her hands are red boxing gloves. This is the modern Iranian woman on the cover of a new photography book, Breathing Space: a woman ostensibly complying with the rules, yet standing defiant and ready to fight.

Edited by the curator Anahita Ghabian, who founded the Silk Road Gallery, Tehran’s first space dedicated to contemporary photography, Breathing Space showcases the work of 23 female Iranian photographers across three generations. The images span documentary and reportage

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NI vet wins two BVA photography awards

May 22, 2023

A vet from Co. Down has won two awards in the British Veterinary Association’s (BVA) Veterinary Photographer of the Year competition.

Sam Price from Bangor, Co. Down, won the ‘Happy Pets That Make Us Smile’ section of the competition and was also voted by the attendants of BVA Live 2023 as the ‘People’s Choice’ award winner.

Price’s photo, named ‘Jumping for Joy’, features his dog Winnie on the beach.

Speaking on Price’s win in the two categories, and the image itself, BVA president Malcolm Morley said: “Sam’s photo of Winnie really was a photo of a happy pet that made

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AP wins public service, photo Pulitzers for Ukraine coverage

May 17, 2023November 12, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for its coverage of the war in Ukraineearning recognition for its breaking news photography of the Russian invasion, as well as the prestigious public service award for its starting — and exclusive — dispatches from the ironeged port city of Mariupol.

AP journalists were also finalists in two Pulitzer categoriesfor breaking news photography of Sri Lanka’s political crisis and for feature photography of the Ukraine war’s impact on older people.

For the public service award, the Pulitzer judges acknowledged AP — which had the

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Pulitzer Prizes: 2023 Winners List

May 8, 2023

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The Pulitzer committee honored the AP for the work of Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Lori Hinnant, citing their “courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Finalists Austin American-Statesman, in collaboration with the USA Today Network; The Washington Post

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The Los Angeles Times won for “revealing a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments,” followed by additional coverage exploring racial issues in local politics.

Finalists Staff of The New

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