Tag: Moises Saman

  • Tragedy on Mount Sinjar – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/13/iraq-yezidi-refugees-helicopter-crash-moises-saman/#1 With temperatures reaching 100 degrees, the conditions on the Sinjar Mountains are dire. Most of the Yezidis ran for the hills without food and water. “That’s why it’s been such a dramatic situation for them,” says Moises Saman. “Without supplies on…

  • The Reach of War: A Day with Doctors Without Borders – LightBox

    The Reach of War: A Day with Doctors Without Borders – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/13/syria-refugee-doctors-without-borders/#1 In late 2013, the medical humanitarian organizationDoctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sent four photographers and videographers—Kate Brooks, Ton Koene, Moises Saman and Yuri Kozyrev—to outposts in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, where MSF provides help to Syrian refugees. The project, shot…

  • Moises Saman Captures Dramatic Images of Iraqi Helicopter Crash – LightBox

    Moises Saman Captures Dramatic Images of Iraqi Helicopter Crash – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/12/helicopter-crash-iraq-moises-saman/#1 Another photographer, Adam Ferguson, and the New York Times’ Paris bureau chief Alissa J. Rubin were also on board and sustained minor injuries. “If we had been another 50 meters higher we’d all be dead,” Ferguson told the Times.

  • PDNPulse » Magnum Photos Names Nominee, New Member, Appoints New Executive Director

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    Magnum Photos Names Nominee, New Member, Appoints New Executive Director | PDNPulse At the annual meeting of Magnum Photos last week, members of the photography collective voted to make Moises Saman, a long-time Magnum associate, a full member of the agency. Bieke Depoorter and Jerome Sessini were elevated from nominees to associate memb via PDNPulse:…

  • Moises Saman’s Return to Iraq

    Moises Saman’s Return to Iraq

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    Moises Saman’s Return to Iraq via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/moises-samans-return-to-iraq.html#slide_ss_0=1 The photographer Moises Saman, who has covered the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war for The New Yorker, has done extensive work in Iraq, but had not been back since 2010. He returned in March to take photographs to accompany my piece, and found…

  • Moises Saman’s Stunning Photos See a Place Beyond Death

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    Moises Saman’s Stunning Photos See a Place Beyond Death I asked him how to keep your humanity in a warzone. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/moises-saman-interview-magnum-photography Peruvian photographer, Moises Saman, has spent his recent years living in Cairo, documenting the Arab Spring’s effect on the city’s residents. Though he might argue “documenting” is the wrong word. His work…

  • Moises Saman’s Photographs of Egyptian Archeology

    Moises Saman’s Photographs of Egyptian Archeology

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    History Underground: Egyptian Archeology via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/11/slide-show-moises-samans-photographs-of-egyptian-archaeology.html#slide_ss_0=1 In January of this year, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University sent a team, led by the field director Matthew Adams, to assess what had been stolen. The photographer Moises Saman joined them, in March, to document their operation.

  • Conflict Photographer’s Best Pictures Are Some of Humanity’s Worst Moments

    Conflict Photographer’s Best Pictures Are Some of Humanity’s Worst Moments

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    Conflict Photographer’s Best Pictures Are Some of Humanity’s Worst Moments Moises Saman is one of the leading conflict photographers of our time. In recent years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Libya. In the August Issue of WIRED, Saman’s photographs and interviews from Aleppo in Syria accompanied Matthieu Aikins via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/09/moises-saman/?viewall=true Moises…

  • Nowhere People: The Refugees of Syria by Moises Saman

    Nowhere People: The Refugees of Syria by Moises Saman

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/07/02/nowhere-people-the-refugees-of-syria-by-moises-saman/#1 I remember photographing the first wave of Syrian refugees in early 2012. Under the cover of a cold winter night, a young couple held tightly to their baby girl while balancing aboard a rickety boat that was smuggling them across the…

  • Moises Saman’s Photographs of Hezbollah

    Moises Saman’s Photographs of Hezbollah

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    A Glimpse Inside Hezbollah “In Lebanon, Hezbollah is both everywhere and nowhere,” the photographer Moises Saman told me. “The conflict in Syria has given weight to the … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/02/slide-show-moises-samans-photographs-of-hezbollah.html#slide_ss_0=1 “In Lebanon, Hezbollah is both everywhere and nowhere,” the photographer Moises Saman, whose picture accompanies Dexter Filkins’s piece on Hezbollah in this…

  • Photographing the Clashes in Cairo: Photographs by Moises Saman

    Photographing the Clashes in Cairo: Photographs by Moises Saman

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/21/photographing-the-clashes-in-cairo/#1 Last week, as protests once again raged in the streets of Cairo, Magnum photographer Moises Saman was there. Over three days, he documented the ongoing street battles near his residence in the Garden City area—right around the corner from the American…

  • More Photos from Moises Saman in Egypt

    More Photos from Moises Saman in Egypt

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    Even in Egypt, a Long Way to Go Moises Saman had been photographing the run-up to the Egyptian elections when the recent riots broke out. He spoke to Lens about the challenges of digging deeper into the story. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/even-in-egypt-a-long-way-to-go/ Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring for The New York Times…

  • POV: Moises Saman And Cairo Undone

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    POV: Moises Saman And Cairo Undone travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2011/11/moises-saman-and-cairo-undone.html The photo essay (it’s really a gallery as there’s no storyline nor timeline) is of snapshots (I use this term very respectfully) of daily life in Cairo…the gritty, the edgy, the incomprehensible, the political and the anachronisms that dominate this teeming city.

  • A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria

    A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria

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    Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the craziest things he’s d

  • Theater of War: Inside Gaddafi’s Libya

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    From February 26th to April 7th, 2011, Moises Saman, on assignment for The New York Times, was one of the few western photographers allowed to work in Tripoli—as a “guest” of the Gaddafi regime. Link: Theater of War: Inside Gaddafi’s Libya – LightBox

  • At an Eerie Crossroads in Tripoli: Moises Saman in and Around the Libyan Capital – NYTimes.com

    At an Eerie Crossroads in Tripoli: Moises Saman in and Around the Libyan Capital – NYTimes.com

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    At an Eerie Crossroads in Tripoli In Tripoli, Libya, Moises Saman is learning to expect the unexpected. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/at-an-eerie-crossroads-in-tripoli/ The amazing thing is that we’ve been seeing a lot. We thought that we’d be extremely managed by the government and we’d only be seeing what they wanted us to. But they’ve been taking…

  • Photographer Attacked by Police in Tunisia: Moises Saman Is Mildly Injured – NYTimes.com

    Photographer Attacked by Police in Tunisia: Moises Saman Is Mildly Injured – NYTimes.com

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    Photographer Attacked by Police in Tunisia Moises Saman, a Magnum photographer on assignment for The Times, was mildly injured in Tunis when police officers attacked him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/photographer-attacked-by-police-in-tunisia/ Moises Saman, a Magnum photographer on assignment to The New York Times, was mildly injured at dusk on Tuesday when he was assaulted by a…

  • Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman : CJR

    Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman : CJR

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    Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/q_a_war_photographer_moises_saman.php?page=all “If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”

  • On Assignment: A Perilous Route to Marja – Lens

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    Moises Saman, a freelance photographer for The New York Times, arrived there just after United States Marines had secured the district center. Traveling with Taimoor Shah, a Times correspondent and translator who is based in Kandahar, Mr. Saman was working independently from the military, unembedded, seeking to document conditions since the offensive. Link: On Assignment:…

  • On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens

    On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens

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    On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall Moises Saman has returned to Afghanistan time and again with the hope of documenting the promise of peace and prosperity, which now seem ever more elusive. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/assignment-17/ KABUL — I was one of the hundreds of young photojournalists who came to this distant country in 2001…