“We're on autopilot. We're all very close personally as well as professionally...I literally just have to check in with the team every week and see what they are planning on doing.”
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“I eventually developed an aesthetic out of that for my own work which is the guiding aesthetic for the photos that we publish”
#Photography #StreetPolitics #TheBattleground
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In a far-right governed country,  if you delve deep enough, the lines blur between domestic issues and international conflicts.

The following photographs were shot last weekend, during the EU elections.

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📰 Happy World Press Freedom Day!
Today we celebrate the brave journalists who uphold truth and democracy.
Stand up for press freedom today and every day, because a free press means a free world. 🕊️

#WorldPressFreedomDay #JournalismMatters #DefendTheTruth #FreePress #IJF24

Greetings from the International Journalism Festival. Perugia #ijf24

Immigration and diversity, class and colonialism, even cultism. It’s all there. I couldn’t think of a more appropriate time to share them than the impending Easter holiday.

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Anti-Jewish racism is real. But the language used to identify it is something else. Jason Oberman, on the German origins of Antisemitism, and how the concept is used against Jews and Muslims in today's #Germany #politics

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Dive into the musical time machine with The Chronicles of Father Robin.
Are we just ageing hippies longing for a past that never was, or is there wisdom in their psychedelic rebellion?
#ProgRockRevival #ChroniclesOfFatherRobin

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"Photography is a perfect medium for projecting origins. Fetishising vintage photographic styles is a way of reconnecting with family history and working through inherited trauma." Joel Schalit, in The Battleground newsletter.

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