Cities are Like Oceans explores the place of human beings in cities that are increasingly chaotic and where modernity takes over traditions that have been established over time. Man as a social being no longer has a place here. Human scale has been reduced to nothing. Man, with an individualistic future is lost like a drop in the urban ocean. Houses crumble, skyscrapers grow, the ground is filled with urban communication networks. The world marches on. Cyrus is guided by the feeling that links the individual to everything else. The light is that of dawn or dusk, of neon or storms, to dramatise the seemingly unavoidable evolution.
Cy...

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World Press Photo conducts an annual, international competition to acknowledge the very best photojournalism in the world. Each year, an independent international jury, consisting of thirteen members, judges the entries in ten different categories, submitted by photojournalists, agencies, newspapers and magazines from all corners of the world. This year’s competition attracted 5,508 photographers from 124 countries. In total 96,268 images were entered in the contest. The annual exhibition is shown this year at about 100 venues all over the world. This year’s exhibition contains 196 photographs. It is an annual public showcase f...

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FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography is delighted to announce the opening of bookings for the Magnum Workshop Fremantle, an Australian first and a unique photography experience held in the beautiful port city of Fremantle in Western Australia.

As part of FotoFreo 2010, Magnum Photos will present an intensive, practice oriented five-day photography workshop from 15th – 19th March. Three international photographers from the renowned photography agency, Trent Parke, David
Alan Harvey and Chien-Chi Chang, will lead intimate groups of twelve individuals through a program of gr...

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Born in 1979, Carrie Levy is a New York based photo editor, curator, professor of photography and photographer. She has worked in recent years as photo editor for Newsweek, The New Yorker, Random House, The New York Times Magazine and Vogue. Currently Director of Education at the Hudson Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York, Levy is also part-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. Levy’s photographic work is based on confinement, authority and control. Her series of images, Domestic Stages was exhibited at DCFA in 2005 and Impaired in 2007. Levy has been included in exhibitions at the Howard Yezerski Gallery,...

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Pat Brassington (b 1942), artist, was born in Hobart and studied at the Tasmanian School of Art. One of Australia's foremost photo-based artists, she has been exhibited and collected extensively in Australia and overseas and featured in such prestigious events as Australian Perspecta 1989 and the Sydney Biennale 2004.
Brassington's work references surrealism, feminism and fetishism. Photographic motifs, collaged or digitally manipulated, create disconcertingly ambiguous imagined states which fascinate and disturb. Images evoke uneasy tensions between bizarre, sinister intimations of menace and weirdly beautiful, benign harmonies. Op...

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