Showcase: Suddenly Long Ago – Lens

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Showcase: Suddenly Long Ago

Asked to capture “hope” and “change” on Jan. 20, 2009, 132 photographers answered. Mariana Vasconcellos reports that few portrayed President Obama.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/showcase-113/

Asked to capture “hope” and “change,” 132 photographers in 79 countries answered in many ways. One chose to depict a man minutes after he was released from prison in Italy; another pointed her camera to a newborn baby in a Palestinian hospital.