On Thursday, 24th July, the Nikon Thursday Award was selected. The winner is Jean-Christophe Couet (France) for his story Western and Eastern Sakartvelo, a story on youth prisons in Georgia and Abkhazia (2008).
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Friday, 25. July 2008
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The exhibition “Diamond Matters” follows the path of the illegal blood diamonds from source to destination through nine countries and is currently being shown around the world. From the mines in Angola and Sierra Leone, through the markets in India and Israel toward the parties in the UK and New York, Diamonds travel from the poor, underprivileged and exploited to the rich in the West. Many of the proceeds of these Diamonds flow directly back to warlords or governments that ...
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Tuesday, 3. June 2008
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Since the first nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk in 1949, the Soviet military and civilian nuclear programmes grew until they reached across the Soviet Union. A long line of grave accidents, incidents and disasters have not slowed down plans to further expand these industries, even in areas that have been heavily contaminated. Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has been traveling through Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, the Urals and Siberia since 1999. The people in these photographs - many of them children and teenagers ...
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Monday, 2. June 2008
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Kazakhstan is undergoing an extraordinary transformation fuelled by a 21st century oil rush. The discovery in 2000 of a massive oil field under the Caspian sea, the largest deposit found anywhere in the world for thirty years, has changed the face of the country and remodelled the geopolitical map of Central Asia. Kazakhstan, which only became independent in 1991 at the break-up of the former Soviet Union, is now courted by the United States, Europe and China, eager for gas, ...
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Monday, 2. June 2008
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This photo-essay is intended to stimulate debate on the impact that CCTV cameras have on British Society. I have focused on my regular walk to work from my home in South London, to my office in Central London (4.3 km). I pass approximately 106 CCTV cameras along the way, that’s around 1 camera for each 25m. In the UK the use of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) for surveillance and crime control has grown to unprecedented levels making us the most ...
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Monday, 2. June 2008
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Since 1991 there have been two major wars in the Persian Gulf involving the United States, its allies and Iraq - both under a Bush presidency. Although many reasons were advanced to justify these military interventions: the liberation of Kuwait, weapons of mass destruction, the war on terror, regime change and so on, they were essentially conflicts to secure supplies of crude oil to a world increasingly dependent on petroleum based forms of energy. Since January 2001, J.B. Russell has ...
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Monday, 2. June 2008
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Sourcing fuel has been a major problem for the 106.000 Bhutanese refugees living in southern Nepal. The forest in the Jhapa and Morang districts where they live could never sustainably provide the firewood needs for such a large population and until recently the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) was distributing 80.000 litres of kerosene a week for cooking use. To tackle the problem the Dutch Refugee Council funded tests using solar energy. They were so successful that 2.500 ...
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Sunday, 1. June 2008
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Over 1 billion people have no ready access to drinking water, the fundamental source of life. There is now a high probability that in the year 2020, when the world population reaches approximately 8 billion human beings, the number of people without ready access to drinking water will have risen to 3 billion. Global warming only risks aggravating this dramatic situation. Through photographs of the drought in the Horn of Africa, floods in Bangladesh, the Aral Sea disaster, gigantic wasteful ...
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Monday, 19. May 2008
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Fotopub is entirely dedicated to documentary photography, bringing together photography lovers with internationally renowned professionals, offering workshops at various levels, showing a selection of exhibitions and evening screenings of photo-stories. We have established Fotopub as a small and intimate festival, small in the warmest sense of the word. Fotopub is taking place every summer in Novo mesto, Slovenia, the juncture of Eastern and Western European cultures. In July Novo mesto offers a pleasant and peaceful shelter with its historic town’s ...
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Tuesday, 8. April 2008
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Fotopub mentors will prepare lectures and presentations of their work, every evening from 7 – 9pm. These lectures are open to the public. Weekdays, at 19.00, Cultural Centre Janez Trdina
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Monday, 7. April 2008
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Fotopub 2008 completed
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith
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Founder of LokalPatriot is students society of Novo mesto - DNŠ. Partners of LokalPatriot are European Regional Development Fund, Ministry of culture, Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth, Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities and Town Municipality of Novo mesto. LokalPatriot is a part of a DNŠ group: DNŠ - students society of Novo mesto, Youth Hostel Situla, Publishing house Goga and LokalPatriot.
