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Iran photographer to share prize money with Syria refugees

    Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian has said she will donate part of a Dutch award of a 100,000-euro ($112,000) to charity, including Syrian and Iraqi refugees. “It is hard for me to enjoy this prize as much as I would like to, seeing the region where I work and live in flames and tens of thousands seeking refuge in ...

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The First Selfie In Photographic History

Snapped in New York on the roof of the Marceau Studio on Fifth Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, this picture features five mustached photographers holding an antediluvian analog camera at arm’s length. Because this camera would have been too heavy to hold with one hand, Joseph Byron is propping it up on the left, with his colleague ...

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