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• Photojournalisms iPad App

  Ed Kashi debuts the new iPad app for his latest book, “Witness Number 8: Photojournalisms,” which is now available at the iTunes store.
   
   
   

• The Weight of the Nation

  The four-part HBO documentary, “The Weight of the Nation” about obesity in America, on which Jessica Dimmock worked as cinematographer and still photographer, will premiere May 14, 2012 (parts 1 & 2) and May 15, 2012 (parts 3 & 4).

• Dig the New Breed Film Competition

  Venetia Dearden’s film for Joie has been selected for Rankin’s On|Off Dig the New Breed competition. The film will be featured in the second issue of On|Off’s limited edition printed fanzine.

• Paris Haute Couture by Christopher Morris

  Christopher Morris debuts five short films shot in four days on assignment for Le Monde.
   
   

• Anastasia Taylor-Lind discusses The National Womb with Canon Professional Network

  The 18th World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass was held in early November, 2011 in Amsterdam. One of the 12 participants, VII Photo’s Anastasia Taylor-Lind, spoke exclusively to CPN on film about her Nagorno-Karabakh ‘respect’-theme project, The National Womb.

• A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan by Seamus Murphy

  Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2010, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy. His work chronicles a people caught time-and-again in political turmoil, struggling to find their way.

• Online seminar | Poetry in Motion with Seamus Murphy

  Seamus Murphy talks to Brian Storm about his years as a journalist covering Afghanistan and world events and his recent move to making videos for the British music sensation PJ Harvey. Q&A to follow. Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, 12pm EST.

• Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides

  by Stephanie Sinclair
  with the support of The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

  Every year, throughout the world, millions of young girls are forced into marriage. Child marriage is outlawed in many countries and international agreements forbid the practice yet this tradition still spans continents, language, religion and caste.

• Visa Pour L’Image

  featuring a VII Retrospective
  with a multimedia projection marking VII’s ten year anniversary
  August 29 – September 4, 2011
  Perpignan, France

  The VII Photo Agency will mark its ten year anniversary with a multimedia projection at Campo Santo.

• The Last Book

  By Gary Knight
  Produced by Scott Thode

  We would like to introduce a new feature on VII The Magazine called “The Words”. In this first piece, writer Beth Macy teamed up with photographer Gary Knight to interview former Poet Laureate Don Hall at his home in New Hampshire.

• Evros

  by Giovanni Cocco
  Produced by VII The Magazine

  VII Mentor Giovanni Cocco gives us a look at the river Evros, on the border between Turkey and Greece, it has become the main entrance for about 75 percent of illegal immigrants arriving into the European Union. Over 120,000 migrants and political asylum seekers reached Greece last year, more than 40,000 of them crossing the border with Turkey.

• Seamus Murphy Produces PJ Harvey Music Videos

  Seamus Murphy is producing 12 short films that will showcase the 12 new songs on PJ Harvey’s new record, “Let England Shake.” Update: The 12th and final video, All And Everyone, for PJ Harvey’s acclaimed album, Let England Shake, has been revealed.
   

• Noir

  by Eric Bouvet
  Produced by VII The Magazine

  In this video Eric Bouvet takes us on a mission into the night with “NOIR”, the section name of the Mountain Commando Group (GCM) of 7th batallon of Chasseurs Alpins. The elite French Commandos are on a mission in the Kapisa Valley in Afghanistan.

• Marcus Bleasdale’s portrait of a Congolese Symphony Orchestra on Need to Know

  The news coming out of the Democratic Republic of Congo is almost relentlessly bad. Roughly five million Congolese people have perished in the nearly 12 years of ongoing fighting across the country. But it’s important to remember that even in the midst of unimaginable horror, people can — and do — flourish. As part of our ongoing collaboration with the VII Photo Agency, Need to Know brings you photographer Marcus Bleasdale’s portrait of one remarkable symphony orchestra that’s thriving in Congo’s capital city, Kinshasa.

• Cult of Gaddafi

  By Christopher Morris
  Produced by VII The Magazine

  In this first part of a two part series that VII The Magazine will be doing on Libya we look at Christopher Morris’s photographs taken over a months time in Tripoli, Libya. These are the followers and believers of Muammar Gaddafi. The audio is from a speech given by Gaddafi on February 22, 2011.