Palestinian Photographer Wins Visa d’Or News Prize for Images of Gaza Conflict
AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza.
AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza.
After an AI image depicting displaced Palestinians with the slogan "All Eyes on Rafah" went extremely viral on Instagram this week, social media users are now encouraging a real photo to be shared.
Israel says it will return a camera and broadcasting equipment it had seized from The Associated Press this week after the country's government faced mounting criticism from media groups.
Israel intelligence officials are reportedly using cameras with facial recognition technology to surveil Palestinians and identify suspected militants. However, while the technology was initially used to search for kidnapped Israelis in Gaza, it is reportedly now being used, to mixed results, to flag members of Hamas.
Israel has condemned a U.S. journalism award for handing a top prize to a photographer who was allegedly embedded with Hamas during the October 7 attack.
A Palestinian photographer who rose to fame for his raw imagery from inside Gaza has reflected on his new-found celebrity since being evacuated from his war-stricken home.
Several survivors of the October 7 attacks on Israel have sued the Associated Press (AP) for hiring freelance photojournalists who are allegedly "embedded with Hamas."
Fashion brand Zara has pulled an ad campaign after customers claimed the photos resembled recent images from the Israel-Gaza war.
The photography collective Magnum Photos issued a statement Tuesday calling for an end to the killing of journalists and media workers in Gaza and the surrounding areas.
After allegations that a group of photographers knew about the October 7 attacks in advance, Israel has said they have been added to a list of people it will "eliminate."
The video above isn't a time-lapse per-se, but it is being reported as such because it allegedly condense a full hour of Israeli Army air strikes on a Gaza Neighborhood down to just one minute of footage. In that minute, you see an entire neighborhood vanish into explosions and massive clouds of dust that clear to reveal only piles of rubble.
German astronaut Alexander Gerst sparked quite a discussion online yesterday by uploading the photograph above to Twitter. His caption read: "My saddest photo: from the #ISS , we see explosions and rockets over #Gaza and #Israel."
Before long, the photograph was retweeted and republished far and wide, with many people and publications commenting on how horrible it is that the fighting is so intense that the rockets and fires can be captured from space... Or can they?
It helps to have experience with first aid when you're working as a photojournalists in conflict areas, and the intense video above is one example showing why. [warning: there's some blood]
On July 16th, Norwegian photojournalist Harald Henden was filming a report outside his hotel in Gaza City when there was an explosion at a beach just a few hundred yards from where he was standing.
Natan Dvir is an Israeli photographer who focuses on the human aspects of political, social and cultural issues. He received his MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts (NY), after which he became a faculty member at the International Center for Photography (ICP). Based in New York City he photographs around the world represented by Polaris Images photo agency and Anastasia photo gallery.