On Assignment: Yemen, With Nuance Karim Ben Khelifa is among the many journalists who are arriving in Yemen, now that it’s at the top of the news. The difference is that he once lived there. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/assignment-18/ Journalists are now descending on Yemen. Among them is Karim Ben Khelifa, who arrived Friday packing…
Meeting ‘the Other’ Face to Face With “The Enemy” project at M.I.T., the photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa hopes to engender a form of empathy beyond the reach of traditional documentary film. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/arts/design/meeting-the-enemy-face-to-face-through-virtual-reality.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 But when I stand, I quickly find myself in a featureless all-white room, a kind of Platonic vestibule. On the walls at…
Banned for 20 Years, Photographer Returns to Tunisia | PDNPulse As a kid growing up in Belgium, photographer Karim Ben Khelifa spent all his school vacations in Tunisia, visiting his aunts, uncles and cousins, enjoying family gatherings in his grandparents’ home, going to the beach. But in the last 20 years, he had be via…
The member photographers included Karim Ben Khelifa, Samuel Bollendorff, Philippe Brault, Guillaume Herbaut, Dominic Nahr, Johann Rousselot, and Michael Zumstein. Link: PDNPulse: French Picture Agency Closes