On the 20th anniversary of the Romanian revolution, Nadia Sussman reports, Cristian Movila depicts his country as a land of perpetual winter.
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Cristian Movila was 7 years old when a firing squad executed the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day in 1989, ending more than 40 years of Communist rule.
As for shooting overexposed pictures on purpose, I personally credit every starting photographer who has ever picked up their Dad’s Nikon F2 and later wondered why after all that time in the dark room resulted in his or her photo paper still being all white; maybe except for, let’s say the dog that was sitting under a shady tree, in the picture.
Karim Ben Khelifa is among the many journalists who are arriving in Yemen, now that it’s at the top of the news. The difference is that he once lived there.
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Journalists are now descending on Yemen. Among them is Karim Ben Khelifa, who arrived Friday packing more than equipment. He came with a nuanced perspective.
Daro Slakauri was born in Georgia in 1985. Her work has won many awards including 2nd Place in the Young Photographer in the Caucasus Award (Magnum Photos). Of this series, Terror Incognita, she writes, ‘Since December 1994, when war broke out between the Russian-backed central government in Grozny and a determined group of Chechen resistance fighters, Pankisi has witnessed an influx of refugees from Chechnya.
Rippling sea waves, dried river skeletons and endless fields. Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Each family needs about six pitchers of water a day, and they have to walk seven miles to get it. Ignoring knee-deep mud in rainy season, braving the biting cold of winter. In the seventeen sub-districts of southwestern Bangladesh, the normal flow of water has been ripped to shreds by the dagger of ‘Development’.
Eleven years in the making and compiling more than 30 years of material, Ed Templeton’s scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County California is a much-anticipated book. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in the “suburban domestic incubator” of Orange County, conveyed in the idiom of Nan Goldin or Larry Clark (and with a sharp eye for the streets that recalls Garry Winogrand or Eugene Richards).
Under their face veils, Catalina Martin-Chico has found four Yemeni sisters who indulge in hip-hop, blue jeans and lipstick, as Kerri MacDonald reports.
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Hip-hop. Blue jeans. Lipstick. Dreams of moving away.
The photojournalist Catalina Martin-Chico came face to face with all these things during her visits with four sisters in Sana, the capital of Yemen. Many scenes that Ms. Martin-Chico captured were not just personal but private; too private even to include in a photo essay titled “Beyond the Veil.”