Out of the Sky In remote Kazakhstan, the photographer Andrew McConnell captured the places where astronauts return to Earth. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/out-of-the-sky What I see in McConnell’s photographs is the Soviet empire receding. In its wake it leaves monuments to its hubris and carelessness. Chernobyl, in Ukraine, is one such monument; the naval…
Miklós Klaus Rózsa | Aperture Shortlisted for Aperture’s First Photobook Award 2014 This publication draws on the documents compiled by the photographer and political activist Miklós Klaus Rózsa (1954) from 1971 to 1989, consisting of an assortment of photographs taken by Rózsa as wel via Aperture: http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=13739 Thanks to all the photographers who took part…
On the Ground in Hurricane-Wrecked Haiti “Everything is broken and scattered for as far as the eye can see,” says Andrew McConnell via Time: https://time.com/4526988/haiti-hurricane-matthew-andrew-mcconnell/ Irish photographer Andrew McConnell was in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, for an assignment about education when forecasters started to track a powerful hurricane forming off of the coast of the…
by Andrew McConnell I was on my way to visit members of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) at a jungle camp deep in the rain forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The FDLR is comprised of Hutu extremists who fled Rwanda after their involvement in the 1994 genocide, as well as…
