If soldiers are not wearing insignia, they are partially out of uniform; if they are partially out of uniform, they are that much closer to being private militias, gangs, or thugs.
Dancing in the Dragons Jaws is Los Angeles-based photographer Thomas Alleman’s profound and nuanced body of work taken of San Francisco’s broader gay community during the mid-1980s. Working as a…
A few years ago, award-winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold learned the story of Zarmina, a young girl in Afghanistan who had regularly phoned a…
Cairo-based photographer Rena Effendi’s Liquid Land depicts communities living in the polluted lands of the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan. Effendi, who just won two prizes in the World Press Photo Awards, was born and raised in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capit
A woman looks down the valley from Kassam pass, Morobe province. The beautiful landscape of PNG’s highlands belies the brutal reality of life in the region, where more than 90%…
Image licensing company Trunk Archive announced today that it has acquired North American licensing rights to the image library of Magnum Photos. Statements from both Magnum and Trunk focused on the possibilities for Trunk to do a better job generating re
Irish-born photographer Kevin Griffin captures the life and character of a man he serendipitously met while driving through the local Irish countryside in the series Omey Island “Last Man Standing.” Spotting a hitchhiker on the side of the road, Griffin o
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The most seen picture of last night’s Oscars was not neither taken by a Dslr, nor a professional photographer and was not published (at first) in any publication. It was a selfie taken on a Samsung Note 3 by an actor and published on Twitter.
Photo courtesy UNRWA The plight of the refugees: I can’t seem to find a photographer’s name to put with this picture, which has gone viral in a big way all over the world. The official caption seems to be “Yarmouk…
Third and final part of the interview that Leica Akademie Italy has made with Joel Meyerowitz in Milan. The american master talks about the Leica S medium format camera, and how this camera is capable of delivering an image quality that he was formerly ab
Sergey Ponomarev, 31, is a freelance photographer covering the conflict in Ukraine on assignment for The New York Times. He grew up in Moscow and also in Ireland, where his father worked as a journalist for Itar-Tass. He previously worked for The Associated Press. He spoke to James Estrin from Crimea on Sunday evening Eastern time. The conversation has been edited.
When Carolynne St. Pierre, a maternity nurse known for her keen wit, was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer, she knew how she wanted to die. According to Oakland-based documentary photographer Preston Gannaway, St. Pierre wanted to leave this worl
By Jim ColtonPhotographs speak to us all in different ways. That’s part of the beauty of our craft. When I was a photo editor at Newsweek magazine, I loved images that captured the scene and told the story without the need of a caption. Similarly, when I
Bieke Depoorter is a member of Magnum Photos. She works on long-term projects, and among the vast number of photographic work revolving around strange…
In another age they might have been called a “lone gunman” or a “band of gypsies.” Every Olympics has them, photographers from newspapers covering the biggest sports event on the planet…working alone, covering their hometown athletes, traveling from venue to venue, often in a group. But there is no mistaking that they are a long way from home, working alone.