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The Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition

FEEDSPORTAL Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:11:22 GMT

A new show at London's Somerset House displays some of the most arresting images submitted to this year's competition.

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Sony World Photography Awards 2012 shortlist

FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:01:46 GMT

The shortlisted entries for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards.

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PST, A to Z: 'Seismic Shift' at California Museum of Photography

GOOGLE Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:52:15 PST

The exhibit provides a wider historical frame for the "New Topographics" movement" started in 1975 by photographers who prized cool, detached neutrality.The exhibit provides a wider historical frame for the "New Topographics" movement" started in 1975 by photographers who prized cool, detached neutrality.

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Palestine under occupation : Ahmad Daghlas' photo gallery

FLICKR Fri, 24 Apr 2009

Weeks after his convoy mission to Gaza was completed, British MP George Galloway was in the U.S. rallying support for his future endeavor of a U.S. backed convoy to Gaza. Prior to giving a speech in Falls Church, Virginia, Mr. Galloway sat down with Managing Editor Najib Aminy to discuss the Middle East conflict.

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Barbican's tribute to 1948 accused of demonising Israel

INDEPENDENT 30 Apr 2008

As far as the organisers of the exhibition are concerned, these photographs of Arab refugees, displaced from their homes in Israel in 1948, are merely an artistic slice of life from a dramatic point in Middle Eastern history.

But the Barbican Arts Centre's show Homeland Lost, consisting of 16 black and white images taken by the photojournalist Alan Gignoux soon after Israel gained independence, is the unlikely frontier of new hostilities between Britain's Israeli and Arab communities.

Jonathan Hoffman, of the Jewish umbrella group the Zionist Federation, has complained to the London arts venue's director Nicholas Kenyon about captions accompanying the photos, which state that the 800,000 Palestinians who left their homes were "uprooted" and "dispossessed". He accused the Barbican of "falsifying" history.

Last night, the Barbican dismissed the accusations and insisted it would not bow to political pressure. It said it had received only two other complaints and defended the decision to stage the show, as well as the language used in the captions.

It said: "We appreciate that interpretations of historical events can potentially be controversial and may inspire strong reactions, but are clear that decisions on such matters need to sit firmly with our artistic and curatorial team.

"This exhibition is a serious, thought-provoking examination of the issue of home and exile, juxtaposing portraits of Palestinian exiles with present-day images of the places that they left in 1948."

London's Palestinian Film Festival is Europe's biggest and has been held at the Barbican for four years. The centre is planning a Yiddish film festival next year, and there was an Israeli Cinema Showcase across the capital earlier this month.

The London-based Palestinian Solidarity Campaign insisted that the language used was "appropriate" and hailed the festival and exhibition as a success. Its spokesman, Martial Kurtz, said: "It is widely accepted that the creation of Israel involved massacres and villages being erased."

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