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Fiona Chong 锺淑芬

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she/her/hers • photographer | documentary film producer • Singapore | USA • fionachong.com • IG @fionachongphoto | Foto @fionachong | Substack @fionachong "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see." René

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The Name of the Land: James Rodríguez’s ‘Tierra De Árboles’ Arturo Soto examines decades of social conflict endured by Guatemala's indigenous communities.

The Name of the Land: James Rodríguez’s ‘Tierra De Árboles’ #photography #photojournalism #documentaryphotography

18.11.2025 07:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The world‘s richest man killing the world’s poorest children…

17.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 237    🔁 121    💬 14    📌 5
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Anastasia Samoylova Maps a Decaying American Dream In 2023, the photographer began a journey along the Atlantic Coast, tracing the ruins and resilience of postindustrial life on US Route 1.

"Samoylova notices these relics of the past without falling into the trap of nostalgia."
#photography #photobook

17.11.2025 06:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Powerful.

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Images of American Fascism Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like.

Images of American Fascism
"Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like."

#photography #photojournalism #visualstorytelling

08.11.2025 06:48 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ripple Effect: Brent and Craig Renaud’s Vérité Filmmaking in Pursuit of Peace Brent and Craig Renaud risked their lives to make vérité documentary journalism—after Brent’s death, Craig honored his life with a new film

"True immersive journalism requires serious time commitment, dramatically increasing both physical risk and financial cost—luxuries few independent filmmakers can afford in an era of shrinking budgets and shortened attention spans."

#documentary #filmmaking #journalism

22.10.2025 06:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“The BBC Is a Brand”: How BBC Editorial Control Sidelines Middle Eastern Documentary Voices In this report, Mohamed Shalaby’s suspension from an internal fact-checking unit after challenging the BBC’s Gaza coverage is part of a wider pattern of institutional scapegoating

#documentary #editorial

21.10.2025 06:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US revokes six visas over Charlie Kirk death amid social media crackdown The State Department says the US has 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'.

The State Department says the US has 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'.

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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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1000 Words: Visual Defiance Against the Authoritarian State Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the crackdown on dissent has jolted photojournalism, street art, and illustration—each surging now to galvanize truth, disrupt complacency, and bear witness.

1000 Words: Visual Defiance Against the Authoritarian State #photography #photojournalism

14.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Artist Of Social Conscience Ben Shahn

An Artist Of Social Conscience
#art #BenShahn

14.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's Indigenous Peoples' Day, Again Less is more (meaningful).

"Celebrating Columbus is like having a day to celebrate Adolf Hitler because of the scientific advancements achieved by the Nazis—except Columbus killed more people. If that comparison offends you, now you know how Indigenous peoples feel about Columbus Day."

14.10.2025 08:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Documenting the Destruction of Gaza: The Power of the Aerial View Jonathan Long

Documenting the Destruction of Gaza: The Power of the Aerial View

#photography

09.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Artist and Muse Exhibition For today’s special exhibition, I want to give a quick thanks to my friend Harry Watson for bringing this idea back to my mind in our recent conversation through the comments section here at Art Every...

The Artist and Muse Exhibition
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09.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Gaza twins whose whole lives have been war Two years of warfare have brought death and ruin to the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza. Reuters looks at one family’s story of terrible loss and fragile hope.

Good work.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

#photography #photojournalism #Gaza

08.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Don McCullin Doesn’t Want to Be Called a War Photographer McCullin speaks about navigating the battlefield, his fascination with ancient Rome, and how he finds drama in the landscapes of England.

aperture.org/editorial/wh...

#photography #DonMcCullin

06.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A World in Color: Across the United Kingdom | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

#photography

06.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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A pie chart entitled "ICE, ICE, Maybe?" with a dek that says "a fraction of deportation personnel are employed by ICE's primary deportation unit." 

13% percent of the graph is shaded in orange, with ICE ERO written in white, while the remaining 87% of the graph is shaded in gray and labelled Other

A pie chart entitled "ICE, ICE, Maybe?" with a dek that says "a fraction of deportation personnel are employed by ICE's primary deportation unit." 13% percent of the graph is shaded in orange, with ICE ERO written in white, while the remaining 87% of the graph is shaded in gray and labelled Other

Fact-check: Most of the goons in Trump's deportation army aren't even ICE agents.

Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs.

Check out the full report: tinyurl.com/yvavwh4f

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Inside the Bizarre Realm of AI Copyright Law How Oscar Wilde, extraterrestrial spirits, and a macaque are shaping AI’s legal framework.

aperture.org/editorial/in...

#AI #copyright

06.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stephen Shore on the Color Red The color can evoke love, anger, and—especially for photographers—danger. What makes red so tricky?

#photography #StephenShore #WilliamEggleston #red

29.09.2025 08:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government

Very fxxed up people.

07.09.2025 10:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“These Pieces of Time Had to Ricochet Off Each Other”: Robb Moss Discusses ‘The Bend in the River’ In this expansive interview, Robb Moss discusses longitudinal personal filmmaking, his influence as a teacher, and The Bend in the River

"...it’s an illusion to think that the past simply leads to the present. The meanings of our lives are constantly in flux, and the internal workings of Bend, like our own lives, move back and forth as we think about things and as things change and take on new meanings. Over time, nothing stays put."

04.09.2025 07:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment “The objective of this contract is to obtain all infrastructure, including temporary housing structures, physical plant, staffing, resources, services, and supplies necessary to house aliens in the cu...

Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities

#photography #documentaryphotography #photojournalism

28.08.2025 07:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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August 23, 2025 “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...

August 23, 2025

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Sadopopulism and the Fascist MAGA Ethos Trump’s policy is to inflict pain, even upon his own voters. But why does this work, and what will stop it?

Sadopopulism and the Fascist MAGA Ethos

22.08.2025 09:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Minding the Gaps: How CPB’s Closure Fragments the U.S. Documentary Ecosystem In this investigation, independent documentary filmmakers and public media executives describe the far-reaching effects of federal funding cuts

#documentary #publicmedia #PBS

20.08.2025 05:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Complex Emotion What should I do with it?

The Complex Emotion

19.08.2025 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are Americans Being Conditioned by Our Media to Become “Good Germans”? When governments rewrite reality and the press goes along, cruelty becomes invisible and the public becomes complicit…

Are Americans Being Conditioned by Our Media to Become “Good Germans”?

18.08.2025 07:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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