“In planning for eight to ten weeks of nonstop overland travel throughout most of Ethiopia and literally all of the tiny African nation of Djibouti, I’ve had to muster the wisdom of Job — and nearly 30 years of working on complicated stories in over 80 countries — tapping as much extreme foresight as possible; When one thing goes wrong — as they often do — it can cause a chain reaction of problems.
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Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Angela Strassheim
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Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep
Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep
In Rio de Janeiro the government has created an ambitious plan called “Pacification,” which is designed to clean up that city’s image by cutting down on the drug trafficking and violence in its hundreds of shantytowns. Since February of 2012, Spanish phot
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/02/rafael-fabres-favelas/?viewall=true
“Since February of 2012, Spanish photographer Rafael Fabrés, 30, has been covering the process of pacification, a strategy with many complications.
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Marcus Reichmann: Leaving The Comfort Zone
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Extra! Extra! (7 Images)
In 2011 Justin Maxon added the Cliff Edom “New America Award” to a fast growing list of accolades he started accumulating as a student at San Francisco State University. The photographs, made in Chester, Pennsylvania, a small city just south of Philadelphia along the Delaware River, were from an ongoing project exploring a community suffering from most all of what ails modern America.
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After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
Mike Brodie is easy to mythologize. A teenager-turned-supertramp (a term usually used to describe youth eager to travel by whatever means and for as little money as possible) Brodie became a darling of the photography world after carting an old Polaroid SX-70 and some stale bagels on his first train-hopping experience across the United States.
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Mali Conflict Enters New Phase
Mali Conflict Enters New Phase
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/mali-conflict-enters-new-phase/100463/
Paolo Pellegrin attacked… everybody. He took no responsibility for his own actions. He constructs straw-men to whack down while at the same time blaming everyone but himself.
My way, end of controversy. Paolo’s way, fuel on the fire
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photographs 1930 – 1945