Upcoming Events

At the age of 27, Florian Ledoux quit everything in his life to live his dream; A strong appeal toward Arctic wildlife and photography. Ledoux sailed 6 000km from Greenland over the course of eight weeks to Nunavut in order to explore and the document the Arctic Wildlife. This became the opportunity to create an image that would change the rest of his life. But at the time he quit my staff photographer job in the French Navy, he had no idea what the future had in store for him.

From a very comfortable position as a developer for Bose Europe, Xavier Portela dropped it all to work on his own and at the same time make a radical career move: from developer to photographer. 

Petros Giannakouris is a Greek Photojournalist working for the Associated Press and living in Athens. The crisis faced by Greece in the aftermath of the financial collapse of 2007–08 left Petros in the middle of a problem.

Timothy Allen presents the 2019 winners of the photography scholarship award organized by Xposure and the Sharjah Government Media Bureau.  

The second is from 1890 to world war two and that is the establishment of the language and function of the medium in its own right. The last epoch, 1945 to the present, has seen the rise and fall of the photographic medium as the recorder of history to an arbitrary visual fiction that is known as the post-structural condition.

Join award-winning National Geographic photographer Steve Winter for a thrilling journey into the world of big cats. From the mountaintops of the Himalayas, through India’s jungles and grasslands, and to the Rockies of the American West, Steve Winter’s “Big Cats” photos reveal some of world’s most elusive wild cats, presenting us with diorama-like images of cats that are rarely seen by humans – and may disappear forever without immediate, effective conservation efforts.

Sunday Times Picture Editor, Ray Wells interviews three iconic war photographers from different backgrounds and countries. This elite panel of photographers have been near mortally wounded, hunted captured, and even tortured. So what is the inspiration that keeps them returning to cover the stories in such hostile places in unfavourable conditions? 

As photojournalists, our main job is to cover events for news stories, but we also bear witness to the extreme suffering of others along the way. Regardless of the horrors we witness, we still have the responsibility to get the images that will have an impact on the wider public and a challenge to get them published to bring awareness.

If someone told you that the best way to improve your skills is to stop taking pictures. Would you believe it?

Cris Toala Olivares is a photographer with international experience who has gained great success in two distinctly diverse projects; Amsterdam Canals and Volcanoes. Bjoern Lauen probes Cris to understand if the two long term projects were intentionally dissimilar.

In this talk, wildlife photographer and innovator Will Burrard-Lucas will share the journey he has taken as he seeks to capture fresh perspectives and reveal the natural world in new ways. From his remote-control “BeetleCam” to high-quality camera traps, find out how and why Will makes use of technology in his work. Will’s talk will be illustrated throughout with inspiring images from his projects in Africa and beyond.

Laurel Chor is using photography to address how her cultural heritage is affecting the environment around the world. The new project hopes to spark an empathetic, nuanced conversation about traditional Chinese medicine and its sustainability.

Yo Soy Fidel follows the cortège of Fidel Castro, former Cuban revolutionary and politician, over a period of several days in late 2016. American photographer Michael Christopher Brown leaned out of a rear passenger window of his passing vehicle in order to photograph Cubans waiting alongside the highway for Fidel’s military convoy, carrying his cremated remains from Havana to Santiago, to pass.