Yesterday was June 6th, the 66th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by over 5,000 ships,
Yesterday was June 6th, the 66th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by over 5,000 ships, aerial bombardment, gliders and paratroopers. Thousands of soldiers lost their lives on those beaches on that day – many thousands more would follow as the invasion succeeded and troops began to push German forces eastward, eventually leading to the Allied victory in 1945. Collected here are some photographs of the preparation, execution and immediate aftermath of the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy, and a few images from 2010. (42 photos total)
(Toby Gregory) wanted the photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba to give him some photos from the Rugby Sevens in Kenya yesterday. For some reason he thought that Chiba should give them to him for free! When he refused he attacked Chiba and stole one of his compact flash cards.
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. PFC Bradley Manning, 2
“Everywhere there’s a U.S. post, there’s a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed,” Bradley Manning wrote. “It’s open diplomacy. World-wide anarchy in CSV format. It’s Climategate with a global scope, and breathtaking depth. It’s beautiful, and horrifying.”
In this interview with VII The Magazine, Antonin Kratochvil takes us on a very personal 20-year journey. He gives us a glimpse of what his eyes looked upon that is or may be gone forever. This is a story about loss; the physical loss of place, loss of freedom, historical loss, and the loss of our responsibility as human beings to care for each other and the world in which we live. Vanishing does not offer answers, neither is it a sermon in hopes of brighter days. It is Antonin’s visual poem to the world we inhabit.
Holgapalooza is the annual photo contest presented by Light Leaks magazine! This year they’ve assembled some fantastic judges who have chosen some great themes. And they’ve had some amazing support by our sponsors to offer some very sweet prizes.
Carr’s most serious charge against the Internet has nothing to do with Google and its endless sprawl of hyperlinks. Instead, he’s horrified by the way computers are destroying our powers of concentration
“Reportage photography is a kind of stalking,” says David. “Although a photographer only really has two controls – where they stand and when they release the shutter – the great photographers so often get luck on their side.”
“I could see from the contacts that when they sensed a situation had potential they began a series of individual pictures and adjusted their shooting position to get clarity. They continued shooting as they felt the most pertinent moment was happening.”
“Often the great photographers shot beyond this moment as no one could say what would happen next. They only stopped when they knew that the excitement was over.”
“The result was a contact sheet of a series of pictures of which one might be the most significant. Perhaps the moment never happened, but from the contact sheet you could read the mind of the photographer at work.”
This is the email I received from a professional Canon photographer who is currently looking to switch to Nikon – I slightly edited the text to keep the privacy of everyone involved: I’m working for GQ, Men’s Health, Stern, Geo etc. and since these switch
Through the eyes of Raul Cañibano Ercilla, one can see life in Cuba from an intimate perspective, with all its complexities, wonders, struggles, humanity, love and sense of integrity.
Creating your own photobook offers creative freedoms major publishers can only dream of, finds Sean O’Hagan – if you’re prepared to put in the donkey work
Ed Ruscha famously did it. Alec Soth recently did it twice. Stephen Gill is just about to do it again for the 12th time. I am referring – lest there be any doubt – to the practice of self-publishing, which is the subject of a two-day event at the Photographers’ Gallery in London this weekend.
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.
When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop.
I really wanted to go to a place where few other journalists were going and where I thought I could tell my own version of the story. It had been 10 years since I had been there. And that’s what I told my editors. I said: “You know, I am not going there to do one story. I am going to do, like, four to five stories.” And that’s what I did.
Inside the rolling hills of Appalachia, the small town of Athens dances to an eclectic vibe that emanates from the bars, locales, farms and people themselves. Many dwellers have found a unique passion they bare honestly and revel in how it makes their life sing.
As photojournalists prepare return to Perpignan in early September for the 22nd International photojournalism festival, Jean-François Leroy, Visa Pour l’Image’s co-founder, has hit out at Photoshop abuses in the field, vowing to ask for raw files for the festival 2011 edition.
I was born in the English New Town of Milton Keynes in the 1980s when much of it was still fields. It had been conceived, in the 1960s, as a radical solution to the post-war housing crisis and as an opportunity to create a utopian city of the future in the Buckinghamshire countryside. Recently, I went back to find that a place designed to make perfect sense had ended up making no sense at all.
