Aperture—a nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting photography—was founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White; historian Beaumont Newhall; and writer/curator Nancy Newhall; as well as Melton Ferris, Ernest Louie, and Dody Warren. With scant resources, these visionary artists created a new quarterly periodical, Aperture, to serve photographers and photography enthusiasts worldwide. Aperture has maintained the founders’ spirit throughout its history—in terms of its editorial freedom, its experiential nature and the confluence of disparate sensibilities and approaches that may converge in any given issue of the magazine. The aim is to foster both the development and the appreciation of the medium and its practitioners.

In the 1960s, Aperture expanded to include the publication of books (over five hundred to date) that comprise one of the most comprehensive and innovative libraries in the history of photography and art. Aperture’s list of artists includes: Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Robert Capa, Chuck Close, Bruce Davidson, Joan Fontcuberta, Nan Goldin, Josef Koudelka, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Misrach, Sebastião Salgado, Stephen Shore, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston, to name a few. Recent publications include: Richard Misrach: On the Beach; Paul Fusco: RFK; Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures, 1971–2005; and Takashi Homma: Tokyo. Aperture’s programs also include limited-edition photographs, artist lectures and panel discussions, and a traveling exhibitions program that has presented shows at major museums and arts institutions in the United States and abroad.

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For our May “website of the month” we have chosen the famous South African photographer Greg Marinovich. His blog is full of feature stories and great photography. Take a look, you won’t be disappointed.

Biography

Greg Marinovich, born in South Africa in 1962, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and is co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a non-fiction book on South Africa’s transition to democracy.

He has spent 18 years doing conflict, documentary and news photography around the globe.  His photographs have appeared in top international publications such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian of London, among others. He is chair of the World Press master Class nominating committee for Africa, and was a World Press Photo judge in 1994, as well as convenor of the FujiFilm awards in 2000.

Currently:

After a stint as the picture editor of Sunday Times in South Africa, he is again working freelance as a photographer and writer.

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Our first “Website of the Month” is the Southern African Freelancers Association (Safrea). Safrea is a nonprofit, professional organisation of freelance workers in the communications field. Members are writers, photographers, editors, proof-readers, graphic designers, illustrators, researchers, translators, and other experts in communication who offer a broad range of skills and specialities.

The website is full of useful resources and helps members stay up to date with all the latest happenings in the industry. Membership is R500 for a year and R100 for Students (full time). 

The SAJP can highly recommend any freelancer to join this worthy Association.


Website: http://www.safrea.co.za

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Postal address: PO Box 124, Greenpoint, 8051