Saudi woman detained for driving - Middle East - Al Jazeera EnglishA woman in Saudi Arabia was detained after she launched a campaign against the driving ban for women in the Kingdom and posted a video of herself behind the wheel on Facebook and YouTube.Human rights activist Walid Abou el-Kheir said Manal al-Sherif was detained on Saturday by the country's ...
Text credit : Monash Gallery of Art web site Forty two images by some of Australia’s best photographers are in the running for the $25 000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize for 2012. Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, the prize and exhibition will showcase some of the most outstanding contemporary work produced in Australia over the past ...
About One Life Photography CompetitionArtists Wanted was created three years ago by two Brooklyn based artists, Jason Goodman and William Etundi Jr. Their first hand experience in the art world was the inspiration for creating this bold new platform for finding burgeoning talent and exposing it to the world. With judges ranging from actor Steve Buscemi to DEVO frontman Mark ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15507304Pahalagama Somaratana Thera is one of thefew Sri Lankan Buddhist monks to have been found guilty of child abuse inside or outside the country.But if Children's Affairs Minister Tissa Karaliyadda is to be believed, child abuse in religious establishments by both Buddhist and Christian clergy in Sri Lanka is rampant.Yet according to figures from Sri Lanka's National Child Protection Authority ...
“Members of Tasmania's Aboriginal community tried unsuccessfully to stop the auction of three ancestral photographs at Sotheby's in Melbourne on Tuesday night.” http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-30/aboriginal-protesters-evicted-by-sutheby27s/5636678(Photographer Henry Firth | Photo Courtesy Southeby's Australia)Three photos that went under hammer were titled "The Last of the Tasmanian Natives”. They depicted Aboriginal residents of the Oyster Cove settlement near Hobart in the 1860s.Dr Julie Gough’s (http:
I came to know Albert Namatjira two years ago through the documentary Albert Namajira the First Citizen. Though sad, his life story intrigued me and led me to research on him. Namatjira is representative of Aboriginal Australians' life of the era - perhaps to a great extent today as well. Albert Namatjira is significant not only because he became the ...
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to Congress that essentially was a series of insults to Palestinians and every insult was met by applause and standing ovations ...
Photos : Magnum and National Geographic photographer David Alan Harvey's wall / floor talk at the Australian Centre for Photography in relation to his "based on true story".Following text is courtesy of the Australian Centre for Photography website5 May–17 June 2012FREE ENTRYHead On Photo Festival and the Australian Centre for Photography are partnering to present (based on a true story).David ...
I was one of the first on the scene. The Afghan security forces normally shut down a suicide bombing like this pretty quickly. I was able to get to the epicentre of the explosion. It was carnage, there were bodies, flames were coming out of the buildings. I remember feeling very scared because there was still popping and hissing and ...
What's it like to witness a mob attack, a starving child or the aftermath of a bomb, and take a photograph instead of stopping to help? As two journalists are under fire for recording rather than intervening in a sex attack in India, we ask people who know ...To read the full article http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/28/gutted-photographers-who-didnt-helpIn pictures: the photographers who stood by ...
