Photographer Jason Andrew’s photos reveals the sordid underbelly of the world’s most popular sport in Turkey and West Africa
via Time: http://time.com/2964428/human-trafficking-soccer-football/
In his series of photographs “Black Diamonds,” Jason Andrew chronicles the human trafficking of African soccer players from Nigeria to Istanbul by an assortment of scouts and unlicensed agents
The genesis for Jason Andrew’s current project, “Under the Banners of American Flags,” came in April, 2010, as he witnessed the growing momentum …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/02/on-the-road-with-the-tea-party-express.html?currentPage=all
The genesis for Jason Andrew’s current project, “Under the Banners of American Flags,” came in April, 2010, as he witnessed the growing momentum across America of what would become the Tea Party movement. Last summer, as Republicans geared up for the Presidential electoral spectacle, Andrew hopped on board the Tea Party Express for its fifth tour across the land of the free
Jason Andrew – twilight country « burn magazine:
Through a poetic sense of light and color, I find an attraction to the atrocities brought on by Mother Nature and mankind. The contrasting beauty between the savagery of ruin and rebirth of destroyed lives creates a romantic idea of what once was there, conveying a different feeling for each person that witnesses the images. The loneliness and solitude is what drove me to document the apocalyptic scenes of Abkhazia, its people, and how they continue to suffer from the effects of war 15 years later.
The Images take us on a sinister, eerie tour of a country whose only existence centers around their military and patriotism. Alone and stagnant, Abkhazia struggles with the meaning of war and self-declared independence, clutching the ankles of Russia for support while shadowing themselves from the economic and social embargoes imposed on them from Georgia and the rest of the world.