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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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It has informed how I have made pictures practically from Day One." Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos ### Analog: Polaroids  Photographer: Jehad Nga For a series of pirate portraits he made in Somalia, photographer Jehad Nga used Polaroid film. "It became clear that I would finally be traveling to Hobyo, Somalia, to meet major players in the piracy trade," recounts Nga, "so I started to think. This was a group of men and an area of the country that I had yet to familiarize myself with. I knew it was one of the more important trips I would be taking to Somalia in my five years of working in the country." Jehad Nga ### The Road Less Traveled  "I really began to realize how Polaroid has a very appropriate place in the work I was doing while I was in Iraq the last year. To me, it changes my head space from when I am shooting digital, when errors need only be clicked away. I always feel something intimate and candid in Polaroid. Neither of these qualities are what come to mind when I think about most work I see from Somalia. I think sometimes the road less traveled with technical choices can best serve in seeing a side of a subject that we otherwise may miss if one follows the same choices again and again." Jehad Nga ### Curiosity  "To me, the pirates were ideal subjects because underneath the guns and bullets, most of these men were shy and easily resorted to giggling when provoked with a portrait. Their otherwise intimidating body language would give way to true curiosity at the sight of the oddly shaped camera and was followed by kidlike excitement soon after. A key component in gaining trust and the slightest bond in many of these cases as a photographer, in Somalia and many places, is to be able to share the photograph you have just taken with whoever it is that is standing in front of you. Polaroid in this case far surpassed digital, as I was able to share copies, which they were overjoyed to have. To watch them closely examine themselves slowly appear inside that frame will be a lasting memory for me." Jehad Nga ### Digital: Kickstarter  Photographer: Krisanne Johnson / Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Krisanne Johnson looked to Kickstarter, an online funding platform, to successfully raise the money that enabled her to return to Swaziland to complete her long-term project on HIV/AIDS. "For the past four years," Johnson explains, "I have been documenting young women coming of age amidst the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Swaziland. A tiny African kingdom of 1 million, Swaziland reports the highest percentage of HIV-positive people in the world, with the hardest hit being young women. For every two young Swazi women, one is HIV-positive. It should come as no surprise that average life expectancy has dropped from 61 years to almost 31 years over the past decade." Krisanne Johnson / Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund ### Funds  "In 2010 I received support from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund for a trip back to Swaziland plus additional support and encouragement to promote the project on Kickstarter, an online funding platform for creative projects, to raise additional funds. My project was successfully funded, and the experience proved invaluable." Krisanne Johnson / Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund ### Community  "\[Kickstarter\] opened my eyes to the power of independent online fundraising and to the awareness and outreach the project link generated through various social-networking sites. The Kickstarter community has renewed my energy to continue the work and to share the stories of this new generation of Swazi teenagers confronting the unfamiliar challenges of the epidemic." Krisanne Johnson / Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund ### Analog: Multiple Exposure  Photographer: Justin Maxon For his very personal and intimate Joop Swart Masterclass Project, photographer Justin Maxon used in-camera multiple exposure of Kodachrome film. "This project is about my transition from a path of chaos to one of healing," Maxon says. "For the past decade, my life has been a blur of movement. The healthy parts of my life fell away, those that used to enrich it — family, friends, love. I found myself in a space between worlds, a visitor to everything around me, a stranger to my own life. I realized I had a crossroads approaching, a choice to make. I chose to thread those fractured parts of self back into my life piece by piece." Justin Maxon ### Longing for Color  "Shooting multiple exposures was the only way I could physically string these pieces together internally. Moments are layered together, creating a patchwork of feelings. I shot Kodachrome to exemplify my longing for color." Justin Maxon ### The Uncertainty of Life  "I wanted to create images that had an extravagance to them — vibrant landscapes, rich with significance to symbolize how momentous these moments in my life were. The delicate nature of exposing multiple images on one roll of film is like the uncertainty of life, always guessing if one more exposure will ruin the mixture or make it sing." Justin Maxon ### Iconic  "What was so special about it," says McCurry, "was its archival quality and longevity. Kodachrome retained its color. The color in pictures from the '50s is as true as when the picture was made. It had a wonderful color palette that interpreted what you saw in a true way. Other films were too vivid, too hyper. Kodachrome saw how my eye saw the scene." Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos ### Disappearing Culture  Asked what he envisioned for the last roll, McCurry says, "I wanted to photograph iconic places and people, places I had worked in. I live in New York, so I shot there. I also went to India, where I had previously worked, to find something equally iconic. The pictures show actors — a tribe of nomads whose way of life was disappearing. Their culture was fading away, just like Kodachrome was going to become part of the past, and there was a connection in that way." Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos ### Digital: iPhone Photography  Photographer: David Guttenfelder / Associated Press During an embed with the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, in February, AP's David Guttenfelder used his iPhone to make images of the battle for Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province. "I was on assignment for the AP, so my priority was photographing hard news, but I also had my iPhone with me. I used it with the application ShakeItPhoto, which gives the image the look and feel of a Polaroid photo. Afghanistan, the front lines of a war, is one of the few remaining places that the public, with its consumer camera phones, does not go." David Guttenfelder / Associated Press ### Snapshots  "I wanted to make some pictures that had the look or mood of the keepsake shots that the Marines take themselves. I've noticed that the new generation of Marines and soldiers take a lot of photos and videos, even when they are in combat situations. Most use phones or point-and-shoot cameras and make gritty keepsake pictures to remember what their lives were like on the deployment and to post or show their friends and family back at home." David Guttenfelder / Associated Press ### Connection  "People who might normally ignore coverage of Afghanistan or ignore traditional photos from the war," Guttenfelder observes, "paid attention to these iPhone pictures because they use similar cameras every day to document their own lives. As a result, they were drawn into the story by these photos, a connection was made, and the photos got a lot of attention." David Guttenfelder / Associated Press ### Analog: Infrared Film  Photographer: Richard Mosse When working on his project in eastern Congo, photographer Richard Mosse chose to shoot with infrared film. "Kodak Aerochrome," Mosse explains, "is a recently discontinued military surveillance technology, developed during the Cold War with the primary objective of perceiving camouflaged enemy installations hidden in the landscape. The use of analog infrared film in eastern Congo evokes the specificity of that medium, its genesis as a military technology and its potential to reveal the invisible." Richard Mosse ### Surprise  "The subject of my work in eastern Congo is the conflict's intangibility and our blindness to it. The project seeks to challenge the ways in which Congo is typically represented. The project's goal is to provoke a dialogue surrounding the generic conventions of documentary photography in Congo, and more generally in Africa. The aim is to surprise the viewer to look again at a forgotten but very tragic conflict." Richard Mosse ### Better the Devil You Know  "The fighters shown in these photographs are FDLR \[Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda\] rebels on the day of being sworn into the Congolese national army, the FARDC \[Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo\], in the mountain village of Masisi, North Kivu. This movement — a kind of legitimization of war criminals — is supported by the international community in a kind of policy of "better the devil you know.' 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