Photojournale Connections Across a Human Planet is a published collection of documentary photography, social documentary photography and photojournalism from some of the world's best journalistic and documentary photographers. The collection of documentary photographs illustrates the common truths that connect the human experience and represents photographers and their stories from around the world. Connections Across a Human Planet is an edited anthology of photo documentary and photojournalism stories originally published on Photojournale.com
The narrative of Connections Across A Human Planet follows the depicts different perspectives of cradle to grave; Childhood, education / school, adolescence, work, home, ritual, religion, celebration, sport, art, conflict, aging, sickness, death, mourning and remembrance. It's an emotional and human journey of images drawn form documentary stories, captured moments or situations from every continent that are common to our human psyche. The work represented in the collection includes religious rituals, ethnographic portrayals, social documentary studies, documentary of conflict or human disasters, natural disasters, and common human occurrences.
The photographers in this book represent a list of exhibitions, awards, publications that include but are not limited to : Geo Mundo, National Geographic, Time, Burn magazine, 100eyes, Reflex, PeaceReporter, Focus, International Herald Tribune,Vienna Reporter, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Financial Times, Czech Press Photo, Fotoweek, International Colour Awards, Angkor Photo Festival, PDN photo Plus, Russian State Ethnographic Museum, Russian Cultural Centre Bratislava, National Gallery of Australia,Tate Britain Gallery, VPRO, BBC, Channel 4, Deadline Press Photos.
Photojournale Connections Across A Human Planet is a held in the collection of Bibliothèque Nationale Suisse ( Swiss National Library)
ISBN 978-2-8399-0593-0
Foreword: Ami Vitale
Design : Peter Barwick
Editors : John Horniblow, Lisa Hogben, Michael Fox, and Erica McDonald. Assisted by Santanu Chakrabati.
Cover image : Yaniv Nadav
Back cover : Igor Sherman
Photographers : Jiri Tondl, Michael Fox, Peter A Calvin, Lisa Hogben, Erik Messori, Alfonso De Castro, Morgan Hagar, Jonathan Taylor, Jaime R Carrero, Jan Sochor, Alex Masi, Teresita Chavarria, Agnieszka Balut, Igor Sherman, Jamie Bailey, Hes Mundt, Alfredo Munoz, Walter Gaya, Rick Carter, Petr Antonov, Sam Bienstock, Ouria Tadmor, Jeroen Leonhard, Gabriela Bulisova, Santanu Chakrabarti, Tyler Freeman Smith, diLuNa, Amir Mahmoodi, Ben Milpas, John Hulme, Tashi Tobgyal, Gazi Nafis Ahmed, Jeff Chouw, Lara Wechlser, Stephen Uhraney, Yaniv Nadav, John Horniblow, Joaquin Gomez Sastre, Jeryc Garcia, Mike Hutmacher ( Skippy Sanchez), Jan Bierkens, Alexander von Spreti, Daniel Kaifer, Angelo Cuissi, Anamitra Chakladar, Md.Kabirul Islam, Debasish Aich, Kiên Hoàng Lê, Alex Kotlik, Nilanjan Mitra, Gulbin Ozdamar, Gianfranco Spatola, Pedro Tzontemoc, Supian Ahmed, Saverio Serravezza, Stephane Lehr, Patricio Valenzuela Hohmann, and Bea Ahbeck.