World Press Photo Heads Line Up at First DocuFest Africa

The first edition of DocuFest Africa gets underway in the beautiful setting of Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on the weekend of April 6-7, 2013. The festival will run parallel to the Encounters documentary film festival in the same venue. Mostly using the format of projected screenings with questions and answers, the festival is focused … Read More

Free Online Resource Enabling Photographers to Access Markets

I was in Maputo, Mozambique last week together with DJ Clark, Graeme Cookson, Peter Krogh, Dominique Le Roux and my wife Rosanne Larsen. Together we were working on putting together a free online resource to enable photographers from Africa and other parts of the Majority World to understand photography markets, place themselves correctly in the … Read More

Joop Swart Masterclass

Nominations for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass 2011 are due in this coming Monday on February 14. The Joop Swart Masterclass is run annually by World Press Photo for exceptional emerging photographers. The 17th Joop Swart Masterclass was held last November and South African photographer, former participant of Joop Swart Masterclass and multiple World … Read More

World Press Photo Exhibition Opens, Maputo, Mozambique

Above: The Fortalezza in Maputo, Mozambique plays host to the 2010 World Press Photo exhibition. Last night I was at the launch of the 2010 World Press Photo exhibition at Fortalezza, the old Portuguese fort in Maputo, Mozambique. A crowd of about 100 including photographers, press and embassy staff enjoyed the exhibition and cocktail party coordinated … Read More