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HABIBI by Antonio Faccilongo wins the 2020 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo

Svetlana Bachevanova, publisher of FotoEvidence, announced that Italian photojournalist Antonio Faccilongo will receive the 2020 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo and that a book of his work, Habibi will be published by FotoEvidence this year and released in Amsterdam, during the World Press Photo Festival in April.

The Book Award is given each year to a photographer whose work demonstrates courage and commitment in the pursuit of human rights. The project was selected to be published as a book by an international jury.

HABIBI

by Antonio Faccilongo

recipent of the 2020 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo
" In 2008 I went to Palestine for the first time. As my plane landed at Tel Aviv airport, the bombing of the war began, later to be called "Operation Cast Lead,” the first after the second Intifada. A bloody 22-day lightening war in which more than 1,300 people died. The violence I witnessed in those days deeply affected me. From that moment on, I felt the need to tell the realities hidden behind the conflict that best make us understand the meaning of living in that place, and at the same time restore dignity to the people who live there."
Photo: Antonio Faccilongo

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Interview with Antonio Faccilongo by Svetlana Bachevanova

While building the book HABIBI, it was very important for you not to depict the endless Israel-Palestinian war, even though the Habibi love story is possible only in the time of war. Why this was so important?

Palestine is too often shown only as a place of war and conﬂict, full of contrast, soldiers, military actions and weapons.

Habibi shows the impact of the conﬂict on Palestinian families. I felt the need to tell the realities hidden behind the conﬂict that best help us understand the meaning of living in that place, and at the same time restore dignity to the people who live there.
Photo: Flavia Spinucci

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HABIBI by Antonio Faccilongo

HABIBI, is a chronicle of a love story set in one of the longest and most complicated contemporary conflicts, the Israeli-Palestinian war. It follows families in Palestine with men serving long sentences in Israeli jails, who smuggle sperm and use in-vitro fertilization to have children. Most media depict Palestine as a war zone. HABIBI takes a purely humanistic approach to one non-violent response to oppression.

The book HABIBI is printed in a limited edition of 500 copies. It measures 17x 23 cm. and contains 58 color photographs, four inserts with images of prisoners taken of from a CCTV video and a personal narrative by the photographer. The book is enhanced with the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali.

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Fernando Moreles

From the series "Waiting for Justice". In Pademba prison there are more than 1400 prisoners.

Color photograph
Printed on archival paper
Print size: 8x10, 16x20 inches

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Photojournalist Patrick Brown and human rights activist Mathew Smith, with photographers Mikael Owunna and Mario Cruz at the FotoEvidence presentation at World Press Photo in Amsterdam, April 13, 2019.

The book “No Place On Earth"
by 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo winner Patrick Brown about the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar was released at the festival.

The discussion focused on the ethics of photographing during a humanitarian crisis and the way in which photographers can challenge oppression and champion human rights.

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Mikael Owunna for “Limitless Africans”. The work is a collaborative response between the photographer and his community, to re-define what it means to be an immigrant, African and queer in North America and Europe at this time.
Fausto Podavini for “OMO Change.” The work aims to be a meditation on how large-scale investments can put at risk a delicate balance between humans and their environment that has persisted for hundreds of years.

Brown’ work will be published in a hardbound FotoEvidence book to be released this spring. Brown, Owunna and Podavini will be exhibited at the World Press Photo exhibit in Amsterdam in April and at the FotoEvidence Book Award Exhibit in New York at the Bronx Documentary Center, opening May 30th 2019.
Interview with Patrick Brown here.
Pre-order the book here.
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At this moment, women around the world are seeking equal rights and equal opportunity. The FotoEvidence W Award for Personal Story will suppot this movement. It will be granted by a selection committee to one woman whose work merits a book. The hardbound book will be published by FotoEvidence. Two other photographers will receive honorable mentions.Through their lenses women can shape the world differently and we want to give them this chance.
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—Newsha Tavakolian, Magnum Photographer
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February 4, 2015 Exhibit of "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at the Columbia School of Journalism.

February 3, 2015 Exhibit opening "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at The Half King, New York

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"Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter selected as one
February 4, 2015 Exhibit of "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at the Columbia School of Journalism.

February 3, 2015 Exhibit opening "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at The Half King, New York

January 21, 2015 Launch of the ibook "Romania" by Joseph Rodriguez, published by FotoEvidence.

"Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter selected as one
February 4, 2015 Exhibit of "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at the Columbia School of Journalism.

February 3, 2015 Exhibit opening "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at The Half King, New York

January 21, 2015 Launch of the ibook "Romania" by Joseph Rodriguez, published by FotoEvidence.

February 4, 2015 Exhibit of "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at the Columbia School of Journalism.
February 3, 2015 Exhibit opening "Destino" by Michelle Frankfurter at The Half King, New York

January 21, 2015 Launch of the ibook "Romania" by Joseph Rodriguez, published by FotoEvidence.

BOOK AWARDWINNERS

- Antonio Faccilongo 2020
- Patrick Brown 2019
- Josué Rivas 2018
- Award Withdrawn 2017
- Daniella Zalcman 2016
- Marcus Bleasdale 2015
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