Sombra Projects

For those working in, or interested in longform journalism, art, and research from Southeast Asia, New Narratif is an online publication launching soon and crowdfunding to support it's work through subscription and membership.

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For those in and around NYC:

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/opening-reception-moving-walls-24-here-we-are?utm_source=Open+Society+Foundations&utm_campaign=e892a9fcd1-Moving_Walls_24_Announcement9_14_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d16374add2-e892a9fcd1-49362845

Moving Walls 24: Here We Are brings together 10 individual and collective artists, journalists, documentarians, and advocates who engage with art and documentary practice as a form of resistance. For the first time, each selected artist has also been awarded a grant to fund new or existing work on a related topic. The exhibition features:

Xyza Cruz Bacani, We Are Like Air
Endia Beal, The Performance Review
Rahima Gambo, Education Is Forbidden
Eric Gyamfi, Just Like Us
Stephanie Mercedes, Luz del Día: Copyrighting the Light of Day
Reentry Think Tank, I AM, We the People
Ruddy Roye, When Living Is a Protest
Dread Scott, in this society, on this earth, in this day
Daniella Zalcman, Signs of Your Identity
The exhibition will be open to the public through July 20, 2018.

Opening Reception for Moving Walls 24: Here We Are Moving Walls 24: Here We Are brings together 10 individual and collective artists, journalists, documentarians, and advocates who engage with art and documentary practice as a form of resistance.

Ren Hang's short creative life, celebrated.

The Subversive Fantasies of Ren Hang (1987–2017) Ren Hang, whose visionary work pushed the limits of self-expression, passed away yesteday at the age of 29.

10x10 Photobooks open call:

Awake!
An Evolving Library of Liberty and Resistance
Free-the-Image-and-Free-the-Speech
An open call by 10x10 Photobooks for photobooks, zines and materials focused on political and social protest.

Spread the word – tell the world! Submissions needed. Tell your friends. Inform your students.

The contemporary world is in a state of upheaval and transformation. We are living in a time where the political environment is murky, disorientating and ugly. The discussion now urgently shifts to the role of the arts and the artists during this period of dramatic and crucial political and social change. This is also applied to the role of photography and the photobook. At 10x10 Photobooks, we would like to provide a platform for the sharing of these extremely important ideas. With this in mind, and drawing upon the long and profound history of protest photobooks, 10x10 is placing an open call for contemporary photobooks focused on personal, social and political themes.

We are looking for contemporary artists’ books, zines, photobooks and materials that assert their dissatisfaction, their dissent and their protest with the world today. We are living in a time where power resides in the hands of too few, and we rightfully and across the globe are outraged. Documentarians, artists and creators are all responding in a myriad of different ways: 10x10 is not looking to define your protest. Our hope is to bring together the multiple voices existing in the world and provide amplification. Your responses can be esoteric, blatant or anywhere in-between.

Awake! is a space where your voices and your eyes do not have to be compromised. By sharing all your ideas and creations together, we can establish some clarity on our communal thoughts and utilize this information to establish a true and coherent opposition to the tyrannies that are currently trying to erode our liberties, rights and freedoms that have taken generations of struggle to achieve. Please join us in this Cry for Freedom and participate in Awake!


Submission Guidelines for AWAKE!

This is a totally open submission for photobooks, zines and materials responding to liberty, resistance and the political environment of today. Please follow this link to submit your work.

We are receptive to all and anything that is created or has been created. We only ask that the submitter tell us how their book relates to liberty and resistance.

The first exhibition of Awake! will be at the PGH Photo Fair at the Carnegie Museum on April 29-30, 2017. Only a selection of the zines, books and materials submitted will be exhibited (not all will be selected for exhibition). However we will find a suitable home in an institution or library for ALL materials submitted. Therefore, all materials will eventually have a home in the world providing free access to the public.

Initial submissions must be received by as April 3, 2017 to be eligible for the PGH photo Fair exhibition.

The open call is truly open and free.

checkout OUR Website: www.10x10photobooks.org for submission details

https://www.pghphotofair.com/

Open Call for AWAKE! Submissions


AWAKE!
An Evolving Photobook Library of Liberty and Resistance
Free-the-Image-and-Free-the-Speech

An open call by 10x10 Photobooks for photobooks, zines and photobook-related materials focused on political and social protest. Submit here!

https://goo.gl/forms/aMCoCVfzg26K1ERY2

The contemporary world is in a state of upheaval and transformation. We are living in a time where the political environment is murky, disorientating and ugly. The discussion now urgently shifts to the role of the arts and the artist during this period of dramatic and crucial political and social change. This is also applied to the role of photography and the photobook. 10×10 Photobooks will be providing a platform for the sharing of these extremely important ideas. With this in mind, and drawing upon the long and profound history of protest photobooks, 10×10 is placing an open call for contemporary photobooks focused on social and political themes.

We are looking for contemporary artists’ books, zines, photobooks and photobook-related materials that assert their dissatisfaction, their dissent and their protest with the world today. We are living in a time where power resides in the hands of too few, and we rightfully and across the globe are outraged. Documentarians, artists and creators are all responding in a myriad of different ways: 10×10 is not looking to define your protest. Our hope is to bring together the multiple voices existing in the world and provide amplification. Your responses can be esoteric, blatant or anywhere in-between.

Awake! is a space where your voices and your eyes do not have to be compromised. By sharing all our ideas and creations together, we can establish some clarity on our communal thoughts and utilize this information to establish a true and coherent opposition to the tyrannies that are currently trying to erode our liberties, rights and freedoms that have taken generations of struggle to achieve. Please join us in this Cry for Freedom and participate in Awake!

Submission Guidelines for AWAKE!

This is a completely open call for photobooks, zines and photobook-related materials responding to liberty, resistance and the political environment of today. Please follow this link to submit your work.

We are receptive to all and anything that is created or has been created (as long as it is book-related). We only ask that the submitter tell us how their book relates to liberty and resistance.

The first Awake! Reading Room will be exhibited at the PGH Photo Fair at the Carnegie Museum from April 29 to 30, 2017. Only a selection of the zines, books and materials submitted will be exhibited (not all will be selected for the reading room). However we will find a suitable home in an institution or library for ALL materials submitted. Therefore, all materials will eventually have a home in the world providing free access to the public.

Only submissions received by April 3, 2017 will be considered for inclusion in the Awake! Reading Room at the PGH Photo Fair.

Submit here!

https://goo.gl/forms/aMCoCVfzg26K1ERY2

10x10 Awake!—An Evolving Library of Liberty and Resistance. Submission Form. An open call by 10x10 Photobooks for photobooks, zines and photobook-related materials focused on political and social resistance and protest. DEADLINE: APRIL 3, 2017 to be considered for inclusion in the Awake! Reading Room at the PGH Photo Fair at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. All books…

An re-edited version from Brendon. Newly uploaded to his Vimeo page - do check out his other videos up there!

THE 99% Photos and music by Brendon Stuart. Made in collaboration with Sombra Projects. http://sombraprojects.com/archive/the99percent

"Photography and Social Justice Fellows are selected by Magnum Foundation through a competitive online application process. International Fellows must be from regions outside of the United States and Western Europe where there are few opportunities for training and little access to mentorship in photography. International Fellows should not have had previous formal training in photography at the University level in the United States or Western Europe. Photography and Social Justice Fellows must be fluent in spoken and written English. This year the Photography and Social Justice program will include Fellows from the United States, by invitation only."

https://magnumfoundation.submittable.com/submit/b0ed38c3-293a-4097-8e28-a2d154730734/magnum-foundation-photography-and-social-justice-fellowship

Magnum Foundation - Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship Magnum Foundation’s Photography and Social Justice Program supports and trains early career and emerging photographers, artists, journalists, scholars, and activists who are passionate about challenging injustice, pursuing social equality, and advancing human rights through photography. The Photogra...

‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’ Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days.

Mark Cousins on Documentary: http://www.bfi.org.uk/explore-film-tv/sight-sound-magazine/video/dear-john-grierson-postscript-story-film-rough-cut

Dear John Grierson: A Postscript to The Story of Film (rough cut) | Sight & Sound Sight & Sound asked me to make a short film about the wrongs of the documentary canon – which, as I argue in the September 2014 issue, has been essentially Atlanticist for generations now, lacking the bridge-builders between East and West who helped stretch the fiction film canon from the 1950s onwa...