photojournalism

Activestills photographer Oren Ziv's first place for best photo series at the 'Local Testimony' photo competition, Tel Aviv, December 10. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Activestills photographer Oren Ziv wins first place in photography competition

Ziv wins two awards at the ‘Local Testimony’ competition for series on the firebombing attack in Duma, as well as for series on police violence against Israel’s Bedouin. Activestills photojournalist Oren Ziv won first place in two categories in the annual Israeli photography competition, “Local Testimony” for 2015. Ziv won first place in the news…

By +972 Magazine December 11, 2015

The 2014 “Local Testimony” competition. (Activestills.org)

‘Activestills’ photographers featured in ‘Local Testimony’ competition

Photojournalism exhibition opens in Tel Aviv. Works by Tali Mayer, Yotam Ronen and Oren Ziv of Activestills are among those being featured for their work in 2014. Photographers from the Activestills collective, partners of +972 Magazine, Yotam Ronen, Tali Mayer and Oren Ziv are among the winners of the 2014 “Local Testimony” photojournalism competition. The…

By +972 Magazine December 17, 2014

"Return Serve", a Bil'in demonstrator sending tear gas back to the army (Photo: Hamde Abu Rahma)

Documenting life and struggle from within: Bil’in photographer publishes first book

Seeing his cousin being shot and killed by soldiers while protesting non-violently drove Hamde Abu-Rahma to photojournalism. Four years later his first book, ‘Roots Run Deep’, documenting life in Bil’in and occupied Palestine, has been published. The picture outside his window still looks grim but Abu-Rahma insists on smiling. Hamde Abu-Rahma, 26, is probably the most…

By Haggai Matar September 6, 2013

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An Israeli soldier prevents a Palestinian cameraman to document the house to house search conducted by the Israeli army in the center of the village during the weekly protest against the occupation and settlements in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, August 24, 2012. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: August 22-29

Demolitions and arrests in the West Bank, solidarity with Rachel Corrie’s family, preparing for war, and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week. Activestills is a collective of Israeli, international and Palestinian photographers, united by a conviction that photography is a vehicle for political and social change. To stay updated on our latest images, like…

By Activestills August 30, 2012

U.S. exhibit to display nonviolent struggle led by Palestinian women

Next month, the Palestinian non-violent resistance movement will take center stage at an art gallery in New Mexico. Mati Milstein, an Israeli photojournalist, has spent the last year documenting the activities of a group of women activists fighting the occupation. He discusses “Nesa’iyéh (a woman thing),” his exhibition of their struggle as depicted through his…

By Noa Yachot May 11, 2012