Fiona Chong 锺淑芬

Powerful and gut-wrenching. When the storyteller is killed.

Must watch.

Armed Only With a Camera | Oscar® Nominee - Best Documentary Short Film

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Takuma Nakahira’s Essential Writing on Photography "At the Limits of the Gaze": A crucial figure in the “Provoke” era of Japanese photography, Nakahira also wrote essays brimming with urgency.

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Inside a Minneapolis Newspaper’s Coverage of the ICE Raids As ICE agents occupied the Twin Cities in January 2026, The Minnesota Star Tribune deployed local photographers to tell a national story.

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My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it

Fascinating read.

A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

Last night I talked about the FCC, Stephen Colbert, and the ongoing MAGA attempt to erase opposition—and destroy democracy.

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William Eggleston: The Last Dyes | New York: 19th Street | January 15—March 7, 2026 | David Zwirner David Zwirner is pleased to announce The Last Dyes, an exhibition of new dye-transfer prints by William Eggleston opening at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in New York, which follows its ...

Irreplaceable.

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Pushing against binaries and embracing complexity GIPA Assembly 2025: Panel Session 2 by Carol Misorelli, Gabi Juns , Miki Redelinghuys and Vivian Schröder It was with a sense of urgency and humility that I moderated the panel "Pushing against binari...

Insightful read.
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‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story? The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...

Intriguing story.

CPJ welcomes Oscar nomination for documentary about US journalist killed in Russia-Ukraine war - Committee to Protect Journalists ‘Armed Only with a Camera’ celebrates the life of filmmaker Brent Renaud New York, February 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the decision by the Academy of Motion Picture A...

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: CPJ welcomes Oscar nomination for documentary about US journalist killed in Russia-Ukraine war cpj.org?p=560714 @pressfreedom.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime #pressfreedom

Running Up for Air | Patagonia Films YouTube video by Patagonia

Great impactful work by RUFA and Patagonia Films.
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Why the Postwar Era Produced a New Kind of Photographer Life Through The Lens; Lesson 012

Good read.
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The ICE Occupation of Minneapolis: They Call It ‘Security.’ The Pictures Say ‘War.’ As Trump sells ‘law and order,’ most of politics and media still treat ‘war’ as a metaphor. On the ground, photographers see it and show it for what it is.

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How a Xerox Became a Time Machine In "Hard Copy New York," Aaron Stern uses a Xerox machine to reproduce artists’ images, raising questions about authorship and circulation.

Interesting concept.
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The 3-Letter Formula Behind Championship Teams (And Most Coaches Miss It) YouTube video by Our Queer Impact

Good listen. On removing gendered bias.

Folks:

This is important.

SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.

More at the link below.

Photographic Surrealism (1920s–1930s) Life Through The Lens: 010

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‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis

Good read.

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

I can’t believe that I have the need to post this.

But here you go.

The Woman Who Immortalized the Bauhaus Lucia Moholy’s photographs helped define the visual identity of the Bauhaus. Why was she left out of its history?

"Why is her work better known than she is? A prime factor was misogyny. Like all gutsy Neue Frau, she faced gender discrimination at every turn."

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Gathered Leaves | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

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Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning When a J.Crew campaign was revealed to be made with AI, fans of the brand felt betrayed. But the fashion industry has always had an elastic relationship with the truth.

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#Onthisday in 1640, Robert Burton passed away in his chambers at Christ Church, Oxford, rumoured to the result of suicide by hanging. Learn more about his great masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy in @nogaarikha's essay "As a Lute out of Tune": publicdomainreview.org/essay/a... #otd

The Last Election The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

Good read. The unfortunate truth.

No Safe Distance: How State Suppression of Documentaries Crosses Borders As governments escalate transnational pressure campaigns, documentarians and programmers worldwide must choose between solidarity and safety

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The Photographers' Selection: 2025 | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

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AI is a “Karmic Amplifier” The Vatican “Aurora” Convening and the Reality of “Machine War”

“If you whisper a prejudice into this machine, it can scream it back to millions. If you plant a seed of division, it can grow a forest of conflict overnight. AI acts as a massive magnifying glass for the human condition. It does not create new intent; it scales our intent.”
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South Sudan's Worsening Humanitarian Crisis | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

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Democracy on the Brink | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

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