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Limbless Syrian boy in iconic photo starts new life in Italy | Syria’s War News
Six-calendar year-previous Mustafa El Nezzel will get remedy soon after an award-successful photo spurred a fund-increasing push. The award-successful photo of Munzir El Nezzel playfully lifting Mustafa, his son who was born without having limbs, has supplied the relatives a shot at a new existence after becoming a poignant symbol of the plight of war-torn Syria. The stunning still tender photo taken by Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan, titled Hardship of Daily life, captured an intimate second of passion in between a father and son whose bodies have been maimed by the brutal conflict. Six-calendar year-previous Mustafa was born with a congenital condition prompted by medications his mom took even though…
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Capture Online – the free photo course run by The Photography Show this week
Starting on 16 December, The Photography Show will be putting on a series of free, online sessions hosted by professional photographers, each with their own area of expertise. The Capture Online series kicks off with Dominique Shaw of York Place Studio who will be sharing tips on capturing candid family moments this Christmas. The free session will start at 19:30 (GMT) and run for 30 minutes followed by a short Q&A with Dominique herself. During the seminar, Dominique will discuss her top tips and techniques for capturing those sacred family moments without worrying too much about getting the perfect picture. • Read more: The best low-light cameras York Place Studio…
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Greenpeace: half a century on the frontline of environmental photo activism | Environment
Fifty years ago, on 15 September 1971, a ship named the Greenpeace set out to confront and stop US nuclear weapons testing at Amchitka, one of the Aleutian Islands in south-west Alaska. Two years later a small boat called the Vega, crewed by David McTaggart, Ann-Marie Horne, Mary Horne and Nigel Ingram sailed into the French nuclear test site area at Moruroa, French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. Photographers had been using their images for years to publicise situations around the world. But Greenpeace was a young organisation pioneering a new kind of activism: this was the moment they began to realise that capturing images of what they were…
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