ON REVOLUTION ROAD - photo exhibition by Yuri Kozyrev

On 27 September at the 10b Photography Gallery in Rome will open the photographic exhibition "On Revolution Road" by the photographer Yuri Kozyrev , a project produced by the 10b Photography and curated by Deanna Richardson and Francesco Zizola.

The photographer Yuri Kozyrev will attend the opening on 27 September at 7.oo p.m.

The exhibition, which includes 50 images taken between February and May 2011, will remain open from September 28 to October 28, 2011.

Veteran Russian conflict, Yuri Kozyrev has left for Egypt to document the events that occurred in the spring of 2011, when protests erupted in the Arab world began to challenge the ruling regimes. For two months he continued his journey via Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, as a correspondent for Time magazine.

Whatch photo gallery at NOOR website

Famine in Kenya - Francesco Zizola

Francesco Zizola, NOOR, writes:

In 2009, when reporting from Southern Ethiopia, I promised myself never to cover another famine. Bearing witness to the death of thousands of people, children for the most part, had worn me out. It’s hard to look at pictures like these, but for me they are especially hard to take.

There’s always the risk of falling into the stereotype of an African body – of a child in most cases – worn out by hardship and despair. In the Western countries we are aware of what is happening in Africa, but our souls of privileged citizens are hardly touched by these photographs. For me it’s different, I bring those images and that suffering inside of me for a long time afterwards. They haunt me at night...(continued at Photo Blog website)

Gallery at Photo Blog website

Overpopulation in Manila - Mads Nissen

Too many people. Too little space. With every passing second, there are more and more of us. By the year 2050, the global population is expected to pass nine billion people, a significant increase from the six-and-a-half billion today. In the Philippines, they are already running out of space. The capital of Manila is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world.
Mads Nissen

Complete gallery at Mads Nissen Website

City of Ambition - Ferit Kuyas

City of Ambition is a series of colour photographers from Chongqing, one of the largest cities in the world. The images aim to reflect the sheer dimensions of the cityscape. Like most of my work, this project has autobiographic roots: I got to know the city through my wife’s family who live there. Chongqing was granted municipal status in 1997, rather late compared to Shanghai. But the people of Chongqing are very eager to show the world and their sister cities in China who they are. Together with the booming economy, this leads to an explosion in city development. Construction sites and cranes can be seen everywhere. What is taking place resembles Manhattan in the 1920s with the construction of skyscrapers. So Stieglitz’s name for Chongqing, “City of Ambition“, reflects its transition.

“I am mostly interested in the outskirts of Chongqing, where the city can’t really be seen, but rather sensed. Also construction sites and places of change are of main interest to me. They show us metaphorical facets of the huge changes taking place in contemporary China. Astonishingly, Chongqing is an unknown place for most people in the western world. The city is located in Southwest China’s region of Sichuan and was the capital of China during World War II. The municipality is populated by approximately 32 million people.”

Ferit Kuyas

Complete gallery at Ferit Kuyas website