The 360 Project – Behind the Scenes from Ryan Enn Hughes on Vimeo.

“The 360 Project” is an exploration into the crossroads of photography and motion pictures. It is a study of peak dance movements, captured simultaneously by 48 cameras aligned in a circle.

There are two components to “The 360 Project” – “Ballet 360” features ballerinas from Canada’s National Ballet School, “Krump 360” features dancers from Northbuck Krump. The two styles of dance represent polemic perspectives in both technique and origin – one is beauty, the other beast.

The resulting images resemble a type of digital statue – a frozen, peak moment, embodying the essence of each dance form in 360 degrees.

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When are you just a photographer, doing your job, documenting the sufferings of the people around you? Photographers Don McCullin and Eugene Richards discuss what it means to them to be war photographers, witnessing the sufferings and cruelty of war. And why McCullin chose not to take a photo of the execution of a North Vietnamese soldier.

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“Moving Stills” (1978) by Behnam Attar from David Burnett on Vimeo.

“Moving Stills” is a film made by Behnam Attar in the spring of 1978, to show the inner workings of a New York photojournalistic agency – Contact Press Images -… one of it’s photographers – David Burnett, and the staff, including Robert Pledge, Guy Cooper, and Behnam Attar. Made in cooperation with the School of Visual Arts.
©1978 Behnam Attar

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POYi is announcing an annual $10,000 “Emerging Vision Incentive” to support a year-long project of an aspiring photojournalist. The first $10,000 award will be handed out in June.

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