Samuel Aranda’s Weeks in Sana and Elsewhere

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In Yemen, a Photographer With No Name

Samuel Aranda worked anonymously for weeks in Yemen, where he was the only Western photographer shooting for a number of weeks. Last week, his name began to appear with his images published in The New York Times.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/in-yemen-a-photographer-with-no-name/

It has been hard much of this year for Western photojournalists to enter Yemen to cover the political turmoil of the Arab Spring. It took Samuel Aranda more than a month to find a safe way into the country, giving him plenty of time to ponder what it would be like working in the deeply divided nation, where hundreds have died in protests.

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