In the Central African Republic
In the capital of Bangui, where a weak transitional government had been installed, there was an element of derangement.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/central-african-republic
In the capital of Bangui, where a weak transitional government had been installed, there was an element of derangement.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/central-african-republic
Link: Jehad Nga: The Green Book | Le Journal de la Photographie
In this series, Jehad Nga technically applies to images the same treatment that Gaddafi inflicted on his people
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/27/the-green-book-project-by-jehad-nga/#1
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
The artists Institute represents are Jodi Bieber, Rena Effendi, Lauren Greenfield, Rob Hornstra, Nadav Kander, Gillian Laub, James Longley, Gerd Ludwig, Joshua Lutz, Amanda Micheli, Richard Mosse, Zed Nelson, Jehad Nga, Simon Norfolk, James Pomerantz and Paul Shambroom.
Link: PDNPulse: Former VII Director Signs Prominent Photogs to New Management Company
From State of the Art: A Different View on Iraq by Jehad Nga:
The New York Times website has some photographs that deserve to be seen. The pictures were made by a young photographer named Jehad Nga (“Inga”), who was one of American Photo’s Emerging Artists in 2007.
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One of the most striking new bodies of work I’ve seen recently is a series of photographs made by the 30 year old photojournalist Jehad Nga. Taken in a Somalian café and lit only by a single shaft on sunlight, the images illuminate their subjects in the clandestine manner of Walker Evans’ subway pictures or Harry Callahan’s “Women Lost in Thought”.
Nga was born in Kansas, but moved soon after, first to Libya and then to London. In his early 20s he was living in Los Angeles and taking courses at UCLA, when he came across the book “Digital Diaries” by Natasha Merritt. The book, a collection of sexually intimate photos made with a digital point-and-shoot, convinced Nga that he could become a photographer. One year later he was traveling through the Middle East taking pictures.
Check it out here.