The Canon Female Photojournalist Award is an annual prize for women photojournalists awarded by the Association des Femmes Journalistes and Canon France. The competition is open to women photojournalists worldwide of all ages, and has a 8,000-euro award enabling the winners to finance their projects. Winners will also have their work exhibited at the International Visa Pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan. A peak inside the winners’ gallery show some great work with much diversity. View Winners Gallery: Canon Female Photojournalist Award Winners
Video: Street Photography Malaysia Part 2, by Paul Swee
Part 2 video collage of B/W Street Photography in Malaysia by Paul Swee, photographer and contributor at The Invisible Photographer Asia.
Photo Essay: Asia Journey, by Henri Cartier-Bresson
After Paris and Europe, Cartier-Bresson’s second love was Asia. He spent a lot of time across the region after the war, capturing a journey of images across China, India, Kashmir, and Southeast Asia. He was there at the death of Gandhi, and his picture firmed the event’s decisive moment. He had a particular fondness of Indonesia, and married Ratna Mohini, a Javanese dancer.
Photo-Essay: The Great Leap Forward China, By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ambitious 1958 photo essay on the Great Leap Forward, Mao Tse-tung’s intensive program of forced industrialization. He worked steadily for four months in China, and although he was closely monitored by the authorities, he returned with a very substantial body of work, rich in concrete detail.
NYTimes.com: A Timely Global Mosaic, Created by All of Us.
An event by NYTimes.com – Where will you be on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 hours (U.T.C.) ?
“Wherever you are, we hope you’ll have a camera — or a camera phone — in hand. And we hope you’ll be taking a picture to send to Lens that will capture this singular instant in whatever way you think would add to a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world.”
Welcome to the The Invisible Photographer Asia.
The Invisible Photographer Asia is a collective of photographers in Asia united by their common passion for street photography and visual journalism.