Amateur Photographer – 20 July 2019

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AT THE 2019 AP Awards we honoured

veteran photojournalist Marilyn Stafford,

for her lifetime achievements in photography,

and you can now see the winners of her own

Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award. This

award is granted annually to ‘a professional

woman photographer towards the initiation

or completion of a compelling and cohesive

documentary photo essay which addresses

an important social, environmental, economic

or cultural issue, whether local or global.’

The overall winner is Özge Sebzeci from

Turkey, for ‘I Am Beautiful – But My Destiny...’

(see picture above) and the two runners-up

are Simona Ghizzoni (Italy) for ‘UNCUT’

and Mary Turner (UK) for ‘Dispossessed’.

Sebzeci’s work looks at Syrian refugee child

marriages in Turkey and how to stop them,

while Ghizzoni covers FGM in Africa and

Europe, and Turner examines the survival

of former coal-mining communities in the

North of England. These, along with all 27

shortlisted images, will be exhibited at the

After Nyne Gallery in London from 24 to

29 July. See http://www.afternynegallery.com.

Marilyn Staff ord award

winners exhibition

Nadav Kander and Alamy

in ‘photo of a photo’ row

A DISPUTE has erupted between

celebrated portrait photographer and

artist Nadav Kander, The Big Issue magazine

and major stock library Alamy. In a recent post

on his Instagram page, Kander accuses The Big

Issue of publishing a photo (via Alamy) of one

of his most famous images – a portrait of fi lm

director David Lynch – without his permission.

‘A “photographer” goes to one of my

exhibitions and photographs my framed print

of David Lynch,’ a clearly aggrieved Kander

writes. ‘He uploads this picture to Alamy. Now

this week The Big Issue publishes an interview

with David and buys this despicably shot

picture of my photograph, crops in and uses it

on the cover.... Unbelievable blatant copyright

infringement... I would never have wanted this

photograph sold.’

A representative of The Big Issue replied as

follows: ‘This image was sourced by the art

team (who) discovered it on Alamy. We told

Alamy what we were doing and neither tried to

pull the wool over anybody’s eyes nor get away

without paying. The fi rst we discovered about

the issues with the image was when your

agency got in touch at the start of the week.

Clearly, Alamy have some explaining to do.’

AP contacted Alamy for a response but

there was no reply at the time of going to

press, so more news as we get it.

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Nadav Kander’s Instagram post – he’s not holding back from stating this photo was illegally copied