Tag: Moises Saman

  • ‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’ – The Washington Post

    Perspective | ‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’ Moises Saman’s new book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” attempts to unwind 20 years of covering war in Iraq. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2023/09/27/this-work-is-haunting-haunted-by-ghosts-history-its-casualties/ Photographer Moises Saman’s book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” (GOST, 2023) starts off with this banger of a…

  • Moises Saman documents the “competing narratives” of the Iraq war

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    Moises Saman documents the “competing narratives” of the Iraq war Moises Saman’s new book brings together his original imagery with materials and military documents to reflect on the subjective nature of portraying conflict via Creative Review: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/moises-saman-iraq-war-photography/ The photojournalist’s new book brings together his original imagery with materials and military documents to reflect on the…

  • Stop Over – The Leica camera Blog

    Link: In candid images, Magnum photographer Moises Saman tells the story about the fate of refugees in Jordan.

  • Magnum Adds Two News Photographers As Nominees – PDN Pulse

    Link: BP maintains it followed “industry practice that is required by federal law.” I would like to see this federal law challenged in court because I have a feeling taking photos of  a public street is a constitutionally protected activity.

  • From a Bubble, 'Sneaking Little Moments'

    From a Bubble, 'Sneaking Little Moments'

    From a Bubble, ‘Sneaking Little Moments’ Moises Saman has been in a press pool in Libya covering those loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi for more than a month. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/from-a-bubble-sneaking-little-moments/ Moises Saman’s work and words have been featured on Lens 17 times since he was assaulted by tthe police in Tunisia in January.…

  • Syria, Decisively Seen

    Syria, Decisively Seen

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ In July, while working for the New York Times, photographer Moises Saman journeyed into Syria as the first Western photographer to enter the country since the conflict between anti-government protestors and forces of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad began

  • Photographer #400: Moises Saman

    Link: Moises Saman, Spain, 1974, Spain, is a very productive photojournalist based in New York City

  • Moises Saman Photographs Syria’s Descent Into Civil War

    Link: The bombing in Damascus “emboldened the rebels to go on the offensive, for a moment suggesting that a perfect storm would lead to the imminent fall of the regime,” Saman wrote to me from his home base in Cairo. “Here we are a month later, with people dying at a rate of about sixty…

  • Moises Saman in Cairo

    Moises Saman in Cairo

    Moises Saman in Cairo via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/moises-saman-in-cairo “In the two years since I moved here, every milestone of the revolution has been marred by an outburst of street violence,” he says. “However, the events of the past week are unprecedented: rocks have been replaced by sniper bullets, city mosques transformed into front line…

  • Discordia – Magnum Photojournalist Moises Saman Presents His First, Terrific Photobook | Fotografia Magazine

    Link: Spanish American photographer Moises Saman – a member of Magnum Photos and one of the top photojournalists out there – discusses Discordia, his first self-published photobook made in collaboration with artist Daria Birang

  • The Rohingya’s Desperate Journey Out of Myanmar | The New Yorker

    The Rohingya’s Desperate Journey Out of Myanmar | The New Yorker

    The Rohingya’s Desperate Journey Out of Myanmar The photojournalist Moises Saman was in Bangladesh this past week documenting the conditions Rohingya refugees are enduring as they flee. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-rohingyas-desperate-journey-out-of-myanmar The Magnum photojournalist Moises Saman was in Bangladesh this past week documenting the conditions Rohingya are enduring as they flee, whether wading through…

  • Anatomy of a Photobook: Moises Saman’s Discordia | TIME

    Chronicling 5 Years of Unrest Across the Arab World Moises Saman explains how his book, Discordia, was made via Time: http://time.com/4277248/anatomy-of-a-photobook-moises-samans-discordia/ Moises Saman explains how his book, Discordia, was made

  • Powerful Photos of Five Years of Upheaval in the Middle East | VICE | United States

    Powerful Photos of Five Years of Upheaval in the Middle East We spoke to photographer Moises Saman about the work in his new book, ‘Discordia’ via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/moises-saman-magnum-photography-middle-east Moises Saman: In Discordia, I felt the need to transcend the “news” aspect of the story, and instead work with the slightly more imprecise images that, in…

  • In Conversation: Photographer Moises Saman On His Journey Documenting the Arab Spring

    In Conversation: Photographer Moises Saman On His Journey Documenting the Arab Spring

    Photographer Moises Saman tells Newsweek about his journey documenting the Arab Spring Magnum photographer Moises Saman has been chronicling the turmoil of the Arab Spring since 2011 for his new book, “Discordia” via Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/discordia-moises-saman-arab-spring-interview-431012?piano_t=1 “I was going from one assignment to another, from one revolution to the next, without really seeing the big picture,”…

  • Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East – The New Yorker

    Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East – The New Yorker

    Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East The combat photographer Moises Saman’s new book captures the quiet moments peripheral to the action of a photojournalist. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/moises-samans-diary-from-the-middle-east in his new book, “Discordia,” which he is self-publishing this month, Saman collects images that convey a more personal and poetic account of his experience in…

  • Magnum Photos Blog

    Rojava & Bashur: After Islamic State SamanMagnum photographer Moises Saman visited Iraqi Kurdistan, known as “Bashur”, or southern Kurdistan to Kurds, and to Kurdish-controlled parts of northern Syria, collectively known to Kurds as Rojava, or western Kurdistan, to document the latest phase of the Kurds’ battle against the Islamic State

  • Digging for Gold in the Andes – The New Yorker

    Digging for Gold in the Andes – The New Yorker

    Digging for Gold in the Andes Moises Saman photographed unregulated gold mining in the ramshackle town of La Rinconada, in the Peruvian Andes. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/digging-for-gold-in-the-andes The mines at La Rinconada, a bitter-cold, mercury-contaminated pueblo clinging to the glaciered mountainside, are “artisanal”—small, unregulated, and grossly unsafe. To stave off disaster, the miners propitiate…

  • Photojournalist Moises Saman Receives Guggenheim Fellowship | TIME

    Photojournalist Moises Saman Receives Guggenheim Fellowship Saman plans to use the funds to continue his project about the Arab Spring via Time: http://time.com/3816420/guggenheim-fellow-moises-saman/ Awarded annually since 1925 “to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under…

  • Discordia: The Arab Spring – The New Yorker

    Discordia: The Arab Spring – The New Yorker

    Discordia: The Arab Spring Since 2011, photographer Moises Saman has been documenting the upheaval in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/discordia-arab-spring Since 2011, the photographer Moises Saman has been documenting the upheaval in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia. Though the photographs collectively capture the events of the past…

  • Slide Show: Capturing the Hong Kong Protests

    Slide Show: Capturing the Hong Kong Protests

    Capturing Hong Kong The ongoing protests in Hong Kong, says the photographer Moises Saman, are different from those that swept the cities of the Arab Spring. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/slide-show-capturing-hong-kong-protests The photographer Moises Saman spent the weekend documenting the protests in Hong Kong