Tag: Photojournalism
Gavin Ellis: Show us the full horror of war in Ukraine
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
Atrocities and total war are not pixilated or sanitised. They bring death with unimaginable brutality and obliterate lives with indifference. It...
From Wellington to South Sudan: Capturing marginalised stories
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Robin Hammond recently made a visit to the Wellington campus of Massey University to meet with his...
Ben Bohane wins $10,000 Bougainville mission grant for Pacific journalism
By Michael Andrew
A Pacific Media Centre collaborator has been awarded the inaugural Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism at the 2019 Walkley Mid-Year Celebration.
Vanuatu-based...
Gallery: Children head NZ’s ‘love not hate’ rally in central Auckland
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre's Del Abcede was on the ground for last Sunday's "love not hate" rally with about 2000 people marching...
Gallery: From fighting nukes to stopping oil – Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior 3, will arrive in Auckland tomorrow on the next stage of her "Making Oil History" tour...
Media freedom groups protest over detained Bangladeshi photojournalist
By Global Voices
Late on the night of August 5, 2018, award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Dr Shahidul Alam was forcibly abducted from his house...
Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua
BOOK REVIEW: By David Robie
Two damning and contrasting books about Indonesian colonialism in the Pacific, both by activist participants in Europe and New Zealand,...
Another Facebook photo ‘community filtering’ policy failure
By Colin Peacock, editor of RNZ Mediawatch
Facebook has been under fire for some time for distributing misinformation and fake news to a potential audience...
Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -...
Filipino photographer puts Duterte death squads into focus
Vice News portrays the Philippines war on drugs through the eyes of a photographer.
Dondi Tawatao went from feature photographer in Manila to chasing crime...
Samoan photographer wins ‘changing lives’ artist residency in Apia
By Helen Isbister
Auckland-based Samoan photographer Evotia Tamua will use an artist residency at the National University of Samoa to complete a 20-year photography project...
Vlad Sokhin: ‘Warm Waters’ – threat of climate change to low-lying...
By Vanuatu Daily Digest
"Warm Waters’" a photoessay on climate change by Russian photojournalist Vlad Sokhin, is the best piece of reporting on climate change in...
How Holland censored its post-Japan colonial war in Indonesia
By Linawati Sidarto in Amsterdam
A unique photographic exhibition in Amsterdam shows what the Dutch state tried to hide from its people about the grueling...
Images: Celebration over launch of NZ’s Pacific research institute
Dancers of the Ura Tabu group treated guests with a performance of "Yellow Bird" at the launch of the NZ Institute of Pacific Research...
War Reporters and RSF book pay homage to Robert Capa
From Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders has unveiled its new video campaign, War Reporters. Its release coincides with the publication of RSF’s 50th book...
RSF cheekily climbing the barricades
From Pacific Journalism Review
Reviewed by David Robie
Saving Independent Journalism: 30 Years Defending Media (39pp); Hostile Climate of Environmental Journalists (27pp). 2015. Paris, France: Reporters...
