Sombra Projects

02/04/2023

24/10/2017

19/09/2017

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.

Support here:
https://newnaratif.thedigitalcube.com/support-our-journalism/

19/09/2017

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.

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.

26/02/2017

Ren Hang's short creative life, celebrated.

Ren Hang, whose visionary work pushed the limits of self-expression, passed away yesteday at the age of 29.

18/02/2017

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/

25/01/2017

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

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…

08/12/2016

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

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

08/12/2016

"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’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...

07/12/2016

Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days.

28/11/2016

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

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...

22/10/2016

BJP & Magnum Photos workshops in the UK.

02/10/2016

ANNOUNCING THE SHORT LIST FOR THE 2016 PARIS PHOTO–APERTURE FOUNDATION PHOTOBOOK AWARDS Berlin, October 1, 2016 The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards have been announced at the Opening Days of the European Month of Photography. The Awards this year have been organized in collaboration...

23/08/2016

Syd Shelton's photographs of the Rock Against Racism movement on the The New York Times - Lens - Photography blog. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/08/22/blogs/fighting-hatred-with-rock/s/22-lens-rock-slide-2ZWD.html

Syd Shelton’s photos capture the rise of the “Rock Against Racism” campaign — with glimpses of bands like The Clash, Matumbi and Sham 69 — that arose in 1970s Britain.

08/08/2016

http://www.disphotic.com/monsanto-an-interview-with-mathieu-asselin/

– It’s really, really rare that a photobook speaks to you in a way which feels important beyond the narrow realm of photography, and even does so in a way which feels desperately urgent. This was the precise experience I had the first time I came across Mathieu Asselin’s Monsanto: A Photographic Inv...

02/08/2016

Grantpa helps artists find and apply for grants in a faster, easier, and less intimidating way.

28/07/2016

http://www.photofestival.gr/refugee-routes

Refugees routes on the world map are often circuitous, the time required for final relocation is indeterminate, and their assimilation is never a given. In this group of works, Leila Alaoui’s video installation explores the experiences of sub-Saharan refugees on their journey towards European shores...

24/07/2016

On March 30, 2016, the ICP hosted a panel discussion, moderated by Maggie Steber, with four women photographers and filmmakers. ...