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Luidmila’s Photography Passion Leads to Virtual Reality Winning Idea

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IPS member Luidmila Pestun won the IFC COVID-19 Ideas competition. Our IPS editor caught up with Luidmila to find out how she came up with this cool idea. Tell us…

IPS Celebrates 50th Annual Photo Exhibition

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Have a phone? Take a picture! That’s the way most of us take photos these days. But photography remains a creative art mastered by only a select few. The IMF-World…

Meet Estelle Doro 1st place winner IPS exhibition 2018/19

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Picture this! You submit your photo to a competition hoping for some recognition and on the night of the ceremony, your name is called as having won the first prize.…

A Chat With Marta Gonzalez Overall Winner IPS Exhibition 2018

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On a hot summers day, this past August, it was refreshing to sit in the Starbucks cafe across the street and chat with Marta Gonzalez. Marta is the overall winner…

A Washington Collection After Dark

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On a busy Wednesday afternoon, Homer Lange and I sipped coffee and flipped through his photo book – A Washington Collection After Dark. In it Homer captures stunning black and…

Interview with Ceyda Öner Outgoing IPS Club President

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By Mary Ongwen The HQ1 IMF café was a buzz with conversations. Under the sparkling chandelier reflections Ceyda Öner and I sit down to a chat and the voices in…

Interview with Dorte Verner

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On a cool Monday afternoon, the MC building gives the impression that staff are either on leave or shaking off Monday blues. Not so for Dorte. I walk into her…

An Interview with IPS member Peter Allum

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Peter Allum is Assistant Director at the IMF. He joined the IPS in 2015 and has delivered strong visual images in many of the monthly competitions. What’s the secret behind…