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Documentary Photography Project

Open Society Voices

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May 31, 2013 | by Annick Shen, Fred Ritchin | 1 comments

Fred Ritchin discusses his new book, Bending the Frame, about transformation in photojournalism and documentary photography, and how to use visual data in the digital age.

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May 8, 2013 | by Amy Yenkin | 1 comments

The Open Society Foundations are making available to the public an expansive documentary photography collection chronicling some of the most pressing human rights and social issues of our times.

April 19, 2013 | by Anna Overstrom-Coleman

Documentary photographer Marcus Bleasdale discusses his project, Zero Hour: Congo, which uses gaming to increase awareness of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.