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Monocle’s culture editor Robert Bound reports on the world’s premier award for achievement in environmental photography. With a mandate to use the power of photography to inspire thought and encourage action, the jury awarded first prize of £60,000 to London-based photographer Nadav Kander.

“…The death of journalism is bad for society, but we’ll be better off with less photojournalism. I won’t miss the self-important, self-congratulatory, hypocritical part of photojournalism at all. The industry has been a fraud for some time. We created an industry where photography is like big-game hunting. We created an industry of contests that reinforce a hyper-dramatic view of the world. Hyperbole is what makes the double spread (sells) and is also the picture that wins the contest.”

A Conversation with Christopher Anderson

Lightstalkers fallout

The work from the casino training centre in Macau is particularly interesting.

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Prix Pictet Shortlisted

Sebastião Salgado’s best shot: ‘Sometimes they sat down and cried’ … Canadian firefighters in Kuwait battle to seal an oil well. Photograph: Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images/nbpictures

Sebastião Salgado, the Brazilian photojournalist, has been traveling to remote, sparsely populated jungle and desert locations for his ecological work in progress “Genesis.”

Photo: Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contact Press Images, courtesy of the Peter Fetterman Gallery

“PECKING ORDER”

May 2007.Afghanistan. Friday Bodahna Bird fight, Kabul

In Kabul, bettors engage in what is a widespread (if underground) obsession among many Afghan men: Bodahna bird fighting. The small quail peck at each other until one of the combatants repeatedly runs away. The equivalent of thousands of dollars can change hands.

Credit: Seamus Murphy

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Sebastiao Salgado: The Photographer as Activist

Photojournalist James Nachtwey talks about the Kabul Orthopedic Center