Felix Seuffert wins DFA My Town short documentary competition in Cape Town

_{The short film »Reflections« of photography student Felix Seuffert and the British documentary filmmaker Anna Telford}

Felix Seuffert and the British documentary filmmaker Anna Telford of Butterfly Films received the My Town NFVF spark Award of the Documentary Filmmakers' Association (DFA) in Cape Town for their short film »Reflections« on August 28th. »Reflections« is an image film for the street magazine »The Big Issue« in Cape Town, which is issued by a non-profit organisation and sold by formerly unemployed vendors in the streets. This short film contrasts the everyday life in Cape Town, one of the world's most socially unequal cities, by showing the lives of a vendor and a buyer of »The Big Issue«. The film has been realised as an assignment for »The Big Issue«, to give a face to the vendors on the roadside, who are often ignored or misunderstood as beggars.

To the website of Felix Seuffert
To the website of »The Big Issue«

Anniversary exhibition in Perpignan

^{»Circus of Hope«, diploma of Michael Löwa, January 2007.} 

The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover has been teaching photography with a major focus on photojournalism and documentary photography for 10 years now. The anniversary exhibition will be shown for the first time during the »Visa Off« programme of the »Visa pour l'Image« in Perpignan, one of Europe's largest photofestivals. In this exhibition titled »Travelling the World« students and graduates of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover show different works from various parts of this world.

^{From the diploma of Julia Zimmermann »Stand up and walk!«, January 2008.}

The works will be shown in La Salle des Libertés (Rue Edmont Bartissol 3, Perpignan, France) from August 28^th to September 4^th 2010 every day from 10 am to 6 pm. Later a larger version of the exhibiton will also be on display in Hannover.

Place: La Salle des Libertés, Rue Edmont Bartissol 3, Perpignan, France
Time: 28.08.2010 to 04.09.2010
Opening hours: 10 am to 6 pm daily
Entrance fee: free
Vernissage: 31.08.2010 at 6 pm

To the website of the festival

Professor Lars Bauernschmitt contributed to the BFF handbook

The fourth completely revised and extended edition of the BFF bestseller »Basiswissen« (basic knowledge) has been published and features among others a contribution of professor Lars Bauernschmitt (the BFF is the German Association of Freelance Photographers).

Lars Bauernschmitt is professor at the University of Applied Aciences and Arts Hannover since 2008 and teaches the courses in short time reportage, photo book, picture language and editorial photography. His longtime experience as executive director of the photo agency »VISUM« (1993-2008) and the formation of the new photo agency »Image|trust« help him to prepare the students well and give them informed advice on how to work together with photo agencies. He also conveys this knowledge about the co-operation of photographers and photo agencies in his contribution to the BFF handbook.

To the website of the BFF

Daylight / CDS Photo Award: Another success for Jan Lieske

^{From the reportage »We are suffering here - dead end Rosarno«. Up to 900 refugees were living in this decommissioned factory without running water and electricity until they were forced to leave. Only few local helpers and the »doctors without borders« gave them support. Photo: Jan Lieske}

After winning the Prix Mark Grosset and being featured in the exhibition of the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism Jan Lieske's project »We are suffering here – dead end Rosarno« is among the juror picks of the Daylight / CDS Photo Award.

In this competition, organized by the Daylight Community Arts Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, the jury chooses one first prize winner and five juror picks in each of the two categories (project prize, work-in-progress prize). Besides that there are ten honourable mentions in each category.

The juror Jamie Wellford (international photo editor of Newsweek magazine) chose Jan Lieske's story on the living conditions of migrant workers in southern Italy.

Daylight Community Arts Foundation (DCAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing in-depth photographic essays on important issues in print in Daylight Magazine and online.

To the website of Jan Lieske 
To the website of the Daylight Magazine 

German Youth Photography Award: two photography students win

^{From the reportage "A summer on the mountain pasture". Photo: Mario Wezel} 

The photography students Robin Hinsch and Mario Wezel are among the winners of this year’s German Youth Photography Award. Their entries have been chosen out of about 7.000 applications.

In his reportage »Strasbourg« Robin Hinsch followed the Protests around the Nato summit in April 2009. His photos range between the contradictory contexts of aesthetics and politics and show the prevalant chaos in a decelerated way. The reportage »A summer on the mountain pasture« by Mario Wezel tells about the life on a remote mountain pasture in the Alps of South Tyrol. He spent one week together with the dairy farmer Alois Joos and the young herders Martin, Peter, Max and René, who allowed him to gain insights in their lives.

The award ceremony of the German Youth Photography Award will take place on September 26^th during the photokina, the world’s largest fair for photography, in Cologne.

^{From the reportage "Strasbourg". Photo: Robin Hinsch}

To the Website of the German Youth Photography Award
To the Website of Mario Wezel