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Recent EntriesZiv Koren named "Canon Ambassador" Ziv Koren featured in Professional Photographer Steve Liss and Timothy Fadek garner POYi awards Allan Tannenbaum to discuss John & Yoko book in NYC Allan Tannenbaum releases new John Lennon book Andrew Lichtenstein releases new book |
June 26, 2008 Ziv Koren named "Canon Ambassador"
Ziv Koren has been named a "Canon Ambassador" by the acclaimed camera manufacturer. April 11, 2008 Ziv Koren featured in Professional Photographer
Ziv Koren's work is currently featured in the latest issue of Britain's Professional Photographer magazine. March 06, 2008 Steve Liss and Timothy Fadek garner POYi awards
Steve Liss and Timothy Fadek each garnered awards in the "World Understanding" category of the Liss garnered the top prize for his piece titled "Voices from Juvenile Detention: Kids Behind Bars," Fadek was honored with a Judges' Special Recognition award for his piece, "City of Missing Women," For more information, please visit the official POYi site. February 05, 2008 Allan Tannenbaum to discuss John & Yoko book in NYC
Allan Tannenbaum will deliver remarks and provide a photography projection of images from his latest book, The event takes place Tuesday, February 5th at 7:00 p.m. Barnes and Noble January 09, 2008 Allan Tannenbaum releases new John Lennon book
Insight Editions has released a new book of photographs chronicling John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Allan Tannenbaum. October 26, 2007 Andrew Lichtenstein releases new book
Andrew Lichtenstein will celebrate the release of his new book, "Never Coming Home," at the Bubble Lounge in New York City on Monday, October 29th, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. The Bubble Lounges is located at 228 West Broadway, at the intersection of White Street. September 27, 2007 Yannis Kontos to present work from North Korea
Yannis Kontos will show a number of photographs from his latest book, "Red Utopia," during a book-signing and talk at London's Frontline Club. Kontos, who turned to a variety of methods to evade government minders while documenting life inside North Korea, will address the difficulties inherent in documenting life inside a tightly-controlled regime during a discussion moderated by Colin Jacobson. For more information, please visit the Frontline Club website. September 24, 2007 Ziv Koren Documentary Film Premieres in Berlin
"More Than 1,000 Words," a documentary film covering Ziv Koren's work regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will be premiering at Berlin's Cicero Galerie. For more information, please visit the following link. August 09, 2007 Ziv Koren chosen to "road test" new Canon EOS
Ziv Koren was recently selected by Canon-Europe to "road test" the new EOS-1D Mark III digital camera. July 20, 2007 Allan Tannenbaum Honored With Two Awards
Allan Tannenbaum was the recipient of two awards from the National Newspaper Association for his documentation of the installation of 12 new bells at New York City’s Trinity Church. Best Photo Essay, Non-Daily Division – Circulation of 12K + (1st Place) Best Feature Photo, Non-Daily Division – Circulation of 15K + (2nd Place) For more information, please visit the Tribeca Trib. Yannis Kontos Wins Marco Luchetta Press Award
Yannis Kontos was honored with the 2007 Marco Luchetta Press Award for a feature in Days Japan chronicling the life of Sierra Leone civil war victim Abu Bakarr Kargbo. April 20, 2007 Yannis Kontos to exhibit work in Athens
Yannis Kontos, a winner of 19 international photojournalism awards will exhibit work from two extensive projects at the Frissiras Museum in Athens, Greece through May 13, 2007. April 03, 2007 Stephen Shames to open Black Panthers exhibit
The Steven Kasher Gallery will present an exhibition of photographs by Stephen Shames celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party from April 10 through May 26, 2007. For more information, please visit: March 15, 2007 Polaris photographers garner six 2007 POYi awards
Polaris photographers Scout Toufankjian, Kemal Jufri, Evelyn Hockstein, Hector Mediavilla, Kate Brooks, February 09, 2007 Peter Van Agtmael wins World Press Photo award
Peter Van Agtmael won second prize in the General News/Stories category of the 2007 World Press Photo competition for his piece on night raids in Iraq. For more information, please visit:
February 01, 2007 Documentary on Ziv Koren stirs controversy in Iran
Iran’s Fajr Film Festival has pulled a documentary concerning Ziv Koren after festival organizers - who had originally approached the film’s producer, Solo Avital – realized the documentary focused on an Israeli photographer covering the current intifada. Avital’s documentary, More Than 1,000 Words, tells the story of photojournalist Ziv Koren and his work covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past five years. Yannis Kontos releases two new books
Yannis Kontos has released two new books through Greek publisher, Kastaniotis Editions. Possible/Impossible: Aporias chronicles a decade of Kontos’ photograpy with a forward by veteran editor John G. Morris. The book opens with a chronicling of the savage but calculated amputation of limbs of civilians in Sierra Leone. It closes with photographs of the mentally deranged victims of neglect in a Serbian hospital. Between these sections we are introduced to a world rife with aporias, an ancient Greek term defined as “a problem or difficulty arising from an awareness of opposing or incompatible views.” In Red Utopia, Kontos' diligent eye probes life in North Korea, in extremely trying circumstances. Inside Asia's "hermit kingdom," photography is stricty limited to that which official minders permit to be captured on film. Smuggling illicit images out of the country, Kontos has succeeded at providing incites into everyday life in one of the world's last Stalinist holdouts. January 17, 2007 Yannis Kontos featured in Athens exhibit
A body of work by Yannis Kontos will be on exhibit at the Frissiras Museum in Athens from January 24 - May 15, 2007. The exhibit spans four subject areas covered by Kontos. Sierra Leone, Life as an Amputee tells the story of Abu, a victim of the horrific amputations perpetrated by rebel soldiers during the recent civil war in Sierra Leone. In Aporias, Kontos takes us to such locales as Iraq, Kosovo and Pakistan in an effort to highlight the topic of conflict arising from opposing or incompatible views. In Kulina, we are transported to a Serbian mental institution treating children either partially or completely disabled. Kontos' lens captures an institution struggling to care for some 650 patients in terrible living conditions where food and water are lacking, wardrobe needs are limited to mere rags and medical care is generally inadequate. Finally, in Red Utopia, Kontos' diligent eye probes life in North Korea, in extremely trying circumstances. Inside Asia's "hermit kingdom," photography is stricty limited to that which official minders permit to be captured on film. Smuggling illicit images out of the country, Kontos has succeeded at providing incites into everyday life in one of the world's last Stalinist holdouts. For more information regarding Yannis Kontos' Athens exhibit, please visit: Exhibition January 16, 2007 Stephen Shames releases Black Panthers book
Aperture has released a collection of Stephen Shames' never-before-published photographs of one the most controversial organizations of the Civil Rights movement. The Black Panthers: Photographs By Stephen Shames, illustrates the way in which the group’s political agenda was tied to their aesthetic sense and includes essays by Black Panther Party founder Bobby Seale and Charles E. Jones, Chair of the African-American studies department at Georgia State University. For more information, visit: http://www.aperture.org/bpp/ December 21, 2006 Ziv Koren featured in documentary film
Ziv Koren is featured in a documentary film being screened at the 2006 Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival. Filmmaker, Solo Avital's latest work, More than 1,000 Words follows Koren over a period of two years, focusing on the manner in which he juggles the personal and political on a daily basis. A selection of Ziv Koren's photographs will be exhibited at the Palm Beach Photographic Center in Delray Beach from November 17, 2006 through January 6, 2007. For more information, visit: http://www.palmbeachjewishfilm.org/2006/morethan1000.htm Yannis Kontos wins Médicos del Mundo award
Yannis Kontos has been awarded first prize at the 10th annual Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Awards for his photo-essay titled "Life as an Amputee." An exhibition of award-winning photography will be displayed at Casa Encendida, in Madrid, from January 24 through February 3, 2007. For more information, visit: http://www.zonaactiva.org/fotohumanitaria/index_ingles.html August 31, 2006 Allan Tannenbaum exhibits September 11th photos at University of Arkansas
Photographs by Allan Tannenbaum will be featured in a new exhibit at the University of Arkansas titled "Five Years from Ground Zero - Through the Lens of the Photojournalist." The exhibit, which will hang in the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center, includes numerous photographs taken during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks aimed at Washington, DC and New York City. June 08, 2006 Newsha Tavakolian wins award sponsored by National Geographic Society
Newsha Tavakolian has been selected as a 2006 All Roads Photography Program award-winner for her photo essay entitled Iran: Women in the Axis of Evil. The All Roads Film Project is a National Geographic initiative supporting powerful first person storytelling by indigenous and minority culture filmmakers and still photographers. As an award-winner, Tavakolian's work will be exhibited at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles, September 28 through October 1, 2006 and in Washington, DC, October 5-8, 2006. May 26, 2006 Kate Brooks is featured in Women War Photographers exhibit
A selection of photographs by Kate Brooks from Iraq and Afghanistan are among those on view in Dubrovnik, Croatia for the Women War Photographers exhibit, on view at War Photo Limited from May 2nd through July 31, 2006. The exhibit presents the work of five of the world's leading photojournalists that cover war and conflict in different regions of the world. The exhibit consists of 100 prints and some 1000 images on plasma monitors May 12, 2006 Ziv Koren wins first place in International Color Award competition
Ziv Koren took a 1st Place-Outstanding Achievement award in the Photojournalism category of the 2006 International Color Awards competition for his photograph of double-amputee Israeli soldier Louai Mer'i receiving physical therapy in a swimming pool. The photograph was part of a body of work entitled "Louai Mer'i, a Sergeant, is Going Home." The piece documents the journey taken by an Israeli Druze soldier after losing both his legs as a result of a Hezbollah attack in northern Israel. For more information see: http://www.thecolorawards.com/2006presentation/gallery/photoshow/winners/10_photojournalism/index.htm April 11, 2006 Natan Dvir’s work to appear in PDN’s 2006 Photo Annual
Two images from Natan Dvir’s coverage of the 2005 Israeli disengagement from West Bank settlements will be featured in the PDN’s 2006 Photo Annual, Photojournalism category. March 29, 2006 Polaris photographers garner four NPPA Awards
Three Polaris photographers garnered awards in the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism 2006 contest. Gerard Rancinan took second place in the Best Published Picture Story category as well as an Honorable Mention in the Local Portrait and Personality category, Yannis Kontos took an Honorable Mention in the International News Picture Story category and Robert Stolarik took an Honorable Mention in the Natural Disasters Picture Story 2005 category. March 21, 2006 Max Becherer wins First Prize in Polish Press Photography Contest
Max Becherer was awarded First Prize in the People and Events category of the 2006 Poland Press Photography Contest for his image of Iraqi mourners during the funeral of a man killed during the national elections of 2005. March 07, 2006 Polaris photographers receive 3 POYi awards
Three Polaris photographers were honored in the 2006 POYi awards. Yannis Kontos was awarded First Place in the Magazine Feature Picture category, Christoph Bangert won an Award of Excellence in the Best Multimedia Story or Essay category and Gerard Rancinan received an Award of Excellence in the Magazine Feature Picture Story category. February 10, 2006 Rocky Mountain News photographer wins award in World Press Photo contest
"Final Salute," a photo essay by Rocky Mountain News photographer Todd Heisler won the first prize stories award in the "People in the News" category at the 49th annual World Press Photo contest. Ziv Koren appears in feature length documentary
Ziv Koren is the subject of a feature length documentary, "More than 1000 Words." The film premieres in Berlin at the Cinestar Cubix Theatre on Sunday, February 12, 2006. Polaris photographers win two awards in World Press photo contest
Yannis Kontos and Donald Weber have both won awards in the 49th annual World Press Photo contest. Kontos took 1st prize (singles) in the Contemporary Issues category and Weber took an Honorable Mention in the Daily Life category. January 30, 2006 Jay L. Clendenin wins four prizes in White House News Photographers' Association contest
Jay L. Clendenin was awarded four prizes in the White House News Photographers' Association, The Eyes of History 2006 Stills Contest in the following categories: November 22, 2005 Allan Tannenbaum exhibit, "John Lennon in NYC" at the Puffin Room
Allan Tannenbaum's images of John Lennon are part of a photo exhibit entitled "John Lennon in NYC." A collection of work will hang at the Puffin Room, 435 Brooome Street in New York City from 12/1/2005 through 1/15/2006. For more information, see www.puffinroom.org. November 18, 2005 Polaris photographers Kate Brooks and Newsha Tavakolian file Digital Journalist Dispatches
Two Polaris photographers are featured in the November 2005 "Dispatches" section of the Digital Journalist. Kate Brooks and Newsha Tavakolian report on covering the October 2005 earthquake that rocked Pakistan and India. |
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