La Lettre de la Photographie

Considered one of the first female Indian photojournalists, Homai Vyarawalla passed away in Boroda, Gujarat, on January 15 at the age of 99.

Butler Eagle

Raymond was a freelance photographer taking pictures for the various newspapers including the Butler Eagle, the News Weekly, the Cranberry Journal and the Pittsburgh Press

The Washington Post

the group was caught in a rocket explosion

Lens

She was the first woman to become a full member of the storied Magnum Photos cooperative — not quite a feminist, but someone who believed that women saw the world through a different lens. Petite but powerful, she will be remembered for her generous spirit and her compassionate eye.

LightBox

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”—Eve Arnold

PDN

“Themes recur again and again in my work. I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women,” she wrote in her 1976 book, The Unretouched Woman.

The Guardian

Celebrated Magnum photographer who documented ‘the poor, the old and the underdog’, as well as the stars

Los Angeles Times

Rogers joined The Times in 1940 and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watts riots in 1965. His work was often picked up by Time, Life and Sports Illustrated.

NYTimes.com

The documentary photographer Milton Rogovin (b. 1909) sometimes returned to the same people over and over for decades. He took these portraits of one family in Buffalo in 1973, 1984, 1992 and 2001. This interview, which has been edited, was conducted by Dave Isay for their 2003 book, “The Forgotten Ones.”

LightBox

We lost great photographers this year. They photographed Presidents and popes, rock stars and rebels. They risked their lives, and some of them gave their lives, so that we can better understand our own, the place we inhabit, and more importantly, the areas of the world we would otherwise never see. —Nate Rawlings