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World Press Photo of the Year: Cropping history and reality

WPP winner demonstrates Palestinian grief is only acceptable to the West if it is sanitised and devoid of context.

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem was in Khan Younis on Oct. 17 at the Nasser Hospital morgue, where residents were going to search for missing relatives. He saw Inas squatting on the ground in the morgue, sobbing and tightly embracing Saly's body. "I lost my conscience when I saw the girl, I took her in my arms," Inas said. "The doctor asked me to let go... but I told them to leave her with me." Mohammed Salem won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Sri Lanka’s ‘picturesque’ protests

It is time Western media rid its coverage of Sri Lanka’s powerful protest movement of damaging Orientalist tropes.

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Why British Vogue’s ‘celebration’ of the African model fell short

Fashion continues to trade in the white lie that it is inherently a non-racial practice and a business.

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Diversity efforts in universities are nothing but façade painting

Even as the diversity and inclusion programmes proliferate, calls for far-reaching structural change remain unanswered.

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Anonymity is a necessary tool for India’s #MeToo movement

Anonymous social media accounts that provide a safe space for women to talk about sexual abuse deserve protection.

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Western media and depictions of death and injury to ‘others’

Africans will no longer sit idly by as foreign journalists display their tragedies for Western consumption.

Kenya attack aftermath

Theft or artistic prerogative?

Do well-known artists have a right to appropriate other people’s photographs to make ‘art’?

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Gender-based violence and art in the #MeToo era

What is an art institution’s responsibility when one of its ‘star’ artists is violent towards women?

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Saying goodbye to South Africa’s legendary David Goldblatt

Goldblatt will be remembered as a mentor, a teacher and above all, the founder of Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

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Art does not need another hero

This year’s Berlin Biennale poses important questions about otherness, power, violence and patriarchy.

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