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Latest News
The key to telling powerful stories with your photographs
Award-winning photojournalist Kate Holt describes her work on a challenging project in South Sudan, and breaks down some of the techniques she used to tell powerful stories with her photographs. In March 2018, Plan International UK contacted me asking if I would be interested in photographing a project about teenage girls caught up in…
Building a Global Short Documentary Community in 2020
Over two days at the Global Short Docs Forum, commissioners will meet 12 filmmakers with incredible stories, who care passionately about short docs. We hope some of the films will peak their interest and get a commission. But the Forum is about more than pitching a single doc, it’s about nurturing and sustaining a global…
The New Humanitarian wins the Coronavirus Reporting Award 2020!
Selected from 400 entries across 68 countries, we are thrilled to announce that the winner of the OWM Coronavirus Reporting Award is How Coronavirus Hit Aden: A Yemeni Doctor’s Diary, The New Humanitarian! This powerful piece of reporting shares the diaries of Dr Ammar Derwish as he documents the tragic impact of the virus on…