Tag: Misha Friedman

  • Opinion | No Two Rooms Are Alike in Ukrainian Prisons – The New York Times

    Opinion | No Two Rooms Are Alike in Ukrainian Prisons – The New York Times

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    Opinion | No Two Rooms Are Alike in Ukrainian Prisons Personalized spaces of the incarcerated. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/opinion/sunday/ukraine-prison-decor.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article I first visited Ukrainian prisons in 2009, while working on a project for Doctors Without Borders. I remember seeing the conjugal rooms and being struck by how no two rooms were alike.

  • An Invisible Epidemic

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    Link: Misha Friedman has been photographing humanitarian crises around the world, with a recent focus on documenting the tuberculosis epidemic in the former Soviet Union

  • Searching for Memory of the Gulags in Putin’s Russia | The New Yorker

    Searching for Memory of the Gulags in Putin’s Russia | The New Yorker

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    Searching for Memory of the Gulags in Putin’s Russia Many Russians, even those formerly dedicated to preserving history, have come to think that tales of the horrors of the Soviet camps were overblown. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/searching-for-memory-of-the-gulags-in-putins-russia The photographer Misha Friedman and I travelled in Russia in 2016, looking, as we put it in…

  • Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Corruption in Russia

    Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Corruption in Russia

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    An X-Ray of Russian Corruption Has corruption become so ingrained in Russian society that it is almost part of the nation’s genetic code? Using a panoramic camera, Misha Friedman explored how people accept corruption and shortcuts in daily life. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/an-x-ray-of-russian-corruption/ Mr. Friedman has journeyed through Russia and created a series called “Photo51…

  • Corruption in Russia (5 Photos)

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    12 Ways of Looking at North Korea David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography. via PDN Photo of the Day: http://pdnphotooftheday.com/2012/12/18179 Misha Friedman‘s new project “Photo51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?” is about photography’s power to…

  • misha friedman – tuberculosis in the former soviet union

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    Misha Friedman – Tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union Misha Friedman Tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union Tuberculosis is still a very deadly disease – especially in the former Soviet Union. The number of patients with very difficult to treat forms… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/10/misha-friedman-tuberculosis-in-the-former-soviet-union/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 I have been working on this story since 2008. It…

  • Prix ANI-PixPalace 2011: Misha Friedman

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    Link: Prix ANI-PixPalace 2011: Misha Friedman | Le Journal de la Photographie Misha Friedman won PixPalace ANI-2011 with his report on Tuberculosis Epidemic in the former Soviet Union

  • Misha Friedman

    Misha Friedman

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    Misha Friedman: Donbass Romanticism After I discovered Misha Friedman’s photographs on The Forward Thinking Museum’s website, I began to see his name everywhere. Misha is the FTM’s winner of their first quarter 2011 photography contest, as the JGS Annual Artist and recipient of a $15,000 aw via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/03/misha-friedman.html After I discovered Misha Friedman’s photographs…

  • Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Tuberculosis

    Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Tuberculosis

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    Saving Lives or Photographing Them? Misha Friedman quit his job at Doctors Without Borders to freelance as a photographer. His images of tuberculosis in Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine are haunting. But Mr. Friedman isn’t sure how much good they have done. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/saving-lives-or-photographing-them/?pagewanted=all Misha Friedman’s photographs of tuberculosis are dark, black-and-white glimpses of…

  • Misha Friedman: Postcard from Donetsk Oblast

    Misha Friedman: Postcard from Donetsk Oblast

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    Misha Friedman: Postcard from Donetsk Oblast Last summer, Misha Friedman began photographing in Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, where he sought to document the health effects of coal … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/misha-friedman-donbass-romanticism.html Last summer, Misha Friedman began photographing in Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, where he sought to document…