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Book Signing of Erika Larsen’s SAMI tomorrow in NY

Tomorrow evening, Friday, April 19, at the International Center for Photography in New York, Erika Larsen will sign her book, Sámi: Walking with Reindeer, which captures the three year journey she took following the reindeer herders of Scandinavia. Larsen’s in-depth project on Scandinavia’s Sami reindeer herders was published in the November issue of National Geographic magazine [...]

Amnesty International invites entries for Human Rights Media Awards

Amnesty International is an organization we have admired for a long time. Given their strong human rights campaigns and track record of pressing for changes on the ground it is a logical fit for emphas.is. We – as a journalistic organization that sheds light on human rights abuses such as the abuse of Saharawi women [...]

L’Antigone del Sahara di Emanuela Zuccala

Ismene: Non è una questione di principi: semplicemente, non ho la forza di agire sfidando la città. Antigone: Cerca pure dei pretesti: io andrò a cospargere di terra il fratello che amo. foto di Simona Ghizzoni / Contrasto Antigone è figlia di Edipo, re di Tebe. Il suo mito compare per la prima volta nell’omonima [...]

Emphas.is at Visa pour l’image festival in Perpignan

Emphas.is will be present at this month’s photojournalism festival Visa pour l’image in Perpignan, France, from Monday, the 3rd until the 9th of September. Several photographers who produced their stories through emphas.is will have exhibitions and screenings. Erika Larsen who is currently raising funds for her book “Sami – Walking with reindeers” will be exhibited, [...]

Emphas.is selected as Finalist of the TWiST Ireland Meetup in Dublin

We are proud to announce our second major win this week! Emphas.is has been selected as Finalist of the TWiST Ireland Meetup in Dublin. ‘This Week in Startups‘ (TWiST) with Jason Calacanis is an influential podcast that is downloaded over 200,000 times a week and reaches many of the most prominent investors and entrepreneurs in [...]

Emphas.is selected to pitch at START as one of the world’s 100 leading early stage startups!

Emphas.is has been selected as one of the 100 world's leading early stage start-ups to present at START during the Dublin Web Summit.

New pledge procedure and payment gateway on Emphas.is

We regret to inform you that Emphas.is has been forced to suspend its operations for the last 48 hours due to a unilateral freeze of our account by PayPal. We have now implemented a temporary solution while we work on a new permanent solution with another Payment Gateway.You can now pledge your backing to a project and will receive payment details once the project is fully funded.

Amnesty International supports “Shadow of the Condor”

Amnesty International has become a partner for Joao Pina’s “Shadow of the Condor”. Amnesty recognizes the importance of Joao’s ongoing photographic project about the legacy of Operation Condor – a secret plan by the military regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay to eliminate their political opposition in the late 70′s. Amnesty International [...]

“Tired of London, Tired of Life” Book Campaign extended

Due to unforeseen professional obligations at the start of his crowdfunding campaign, Jocelyn Bain Hogg from VII has not been able to dedicate sufficient time to his book campaign. Therefore, we have decided to extend the funding period for ‘Tired of London, Tired of Life’ on Emphas.is by 30 days. Jocelyn is confident that he [...]

PayPal credit card payments

A few people have recently reported problems making their pledge towards a project with their credit card using PayPal. There are many possible causes that can result in such credit card errors, and PayPal doesn’t give specific explanations on how to make the payment go through processing again, with the same or different credit card. [...]