via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/france-military-embedded-in-mali
But it’s a simple equation. Without the army we wouldn’t be here. Northern Mali has become too dangerous to venture without protection. Two of our colleagues from RFI were kidnapped and murdered while reporting in Kidal in November 2013. No story is worth the risk of getting killed, or spending three years as a captive in the desert, chained to the bumper of a pick-up truck.
In 1990, the late American photographer Mary Ellen Mark captured a photo titled “Amanda and her Cousin Amy,” which showed a 9-year-old girl named Amanda
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/06/27/amanda-marie-ellison-the-smoking-girl-in-mary-ellen-marks-famous-photo/
It’s a striking photo that became one of Mark’s most famous works, but have you ever wondered what became of the two girls?
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/pakistan-heatwave-health-in-karachi-heat-the-stench-of-death
As Pakistan’s sprawling metropolis Karachi finally cools off after a deadly heatwave that killed more than 1,000 people, AFP’s correspondent in the city reflects on covering – and living through – one of the hottest weeks in living memory.
Photographer Christina Broom broke down gender barriers in the early 20th century with her magnetizing images of soldiers and suffragettes.
via MNN – Mother Nature Network: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/honoring-the-uks-first-female-photojournalist
Photographer Christina Broom broke down gender barriers in the early 20th century with her magnetizing images of soldiers and suffragettes.
We could stand for more recognition of those papers that largely ignored the perpetrator in favor of elevating the victims and affirming existing bonds.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/06/charleston-shooting-front-pages/
In the aftermath of the latest shooting rampage, this one the racist massacre in Charleston, my sense is that the popular sentiment against publishing the shooter’s face and name (at least, on the web) had grown louder than ever. That, however, didn’t stop certain publications from splashing his face across multiple columns, even whole pages, like the second coming of Hannibal Lecter. And this, like a domino effect, generated that many more links, posts and tweets calling out and re-posting those examples, only amplifying the kid’s status as poster boy.
If the GOP has set a particularly low bar this presidential cycle, my early sense of the photojournalism is the opposite.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/turkey-refugees-islamic-state-kurds-border-desperate-flight-from-syria#.VX7tbGCqyn0
We have been on the Turkey-Syria border for nearly a week now, within sight of the Syrian town of Tal Abyad where Kurdish forces are battling Islamic State jihadists for control. Thousands have fled the fighting, hoping to join the 1.8 milllion Syrian refugees already in Turkey, 13,500 of them from Tal Abyad, but in recent days Ankara had been holding the border shut fearing a new mass influx of people.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/lebanon-algeria-greece-us-syria-plane-hijacking-twa-flight-847-into-the-hell-of-beirut#.VXr1rDM8w20
On Friday June 14, 1985 Flight 847 of the US carrier TWA was travelling between Athens and Rome with eight crew and 145 passengers on board – 85 of them American – when it was diverted towards Beirut airport, opening one of the longest hijacking crises in aviation history.
Leading up to the 68th Annual General Meeting of the Magnum Photos cooperative, its 60 active photographers were asked to select “an image that changed…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/06/06/magnum_photos_that_changed_everything.html
Leading up to the 68th Annual General Meeting of the Magnum Photos cooperative, its 60 active photographers were asked to select “an image that changed everything.” The response to this open ended prompt created a collection of photographs ranging from the explicitly professional, to the earnestly romantic, to the bluntly profane. “What’s unique about Magnum,” wrote Creative Director Gideon Jacobs in an email interview, “is that it is a large group of photographers functioning under one umbrella, and therefore, sometimes you can construct some kind of singular voice that is composed of many voices.”
Tomas van Houtryve reflects
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/what-do-drones-mean-for-the-future-of-photojournalism-ff05a9cd550c
Award-winning photographer Tomas Van Houtryve reflects on a changing (aerial) landscape
A startup called Viewfind is trying to change all that. A newly launched Kickstarter from the company is trying to raise $25,000 to produce five long-term documentary projects from Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, Ruddy Roye, Beth Nakamura, Benjamin Lowy and Matt Eich.
The photo agency also chose a new CEO
via Time: http://time.com/3905072/vii-photo-danny-wilcox-frazier-sarker-protick/
The new additions expand the agency’s roaster to 20. In recent months, photographers Lynsey Addario and Stephanie Sinclair left VII.
The pioneering African American looks back at the power of the photograph
via Smithsonian Magazine: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/photography-book-eli-reed-favorite-images-african-american-180955469/?no-ist
The pioneering African American looks back at the power of the photograph
The photo agency plans to connect its photographers with their fans
via Time: http://time.com/3900684/magnum-photos-future/
The photo agency plans to connect its photographers with their fans
“We’ve taken a completely different approach than most people when we started it,” said Sarah Leen, director of photography at National Geographic. “The idea was to give the photographers this opportunity to have a place to display the work they were doing for us or even the work they were just doing.”
Footage of death brings the event uncannily close, but this can be both too much and not enough.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/magazine/death-in-the-browser-tab.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
There you are watching another death on video. In the course of ordinary life — at lunch or in bed, in a car or in the park — you are suddenly plunged into someone else’s crisis, someone else’s horror. It arrives, absurdly, in the midst of banal things. That is how, late one afternoon in April, I watched Walter Scott die. The footage of his death, taken by a passer-by, had just been published online on the front page of The New York Times. I watched it, sitting at my desk in Brooklyn, and was stunned by it.
A Story Without a Beginning
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/embed-in-egypt-3478253a9b3a
I got to Cairo, finally, in November 2011. It was around the time of Eid.
Little did I know that the friends I made on the night of my arrival and the experience ahead would change me forever.
From agony of Sichuan quake to acres of beefcake
via South China Morning Post: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1796479/why-acclaimed-chinese-photojournalist-out-shoot-10000
Why acclaimed Chinese photojournalist Chen Qinggang has switched focus and wants to shoot 10,000 backsides – of men, and women too
The photo captures the bare life of the human subject in migration; the emblematic equipment of global transportation and a powerful but harsh global economy that permeates everyday life.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/05/boy-in-the-suitcase-the-first-photo-of-the-new-century/
It is fitting that the first photograph of the 21st century includes an illegal immigrant.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/salvador-gangs-drugs-crime-prison-death-in-their-eyes#.VVHh12B5qn0
On the end of the line was one of my sources, warning me that hundreds of highly-dangerous gang members, or “pandilleros”, were about to be moved from two prisons in the east of El Salvador, to the top-security facility of Izalco west of the capital.