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With temperatures reaching 100 degrees, the conditions on the Sinjar Mountains are dire. Most of the Yezidis ran for the hills without food and water. “That’s why it’s been such a dramatic situation for them,” says Moises Saman. “Without supplies on a mountain like that, nobody can survive more than a couple of days.”
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In late 2013, the medical humanitarian organizationDoctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sent four photographers and videographers—Kate Brooks, Ton Koene, Moises Saman and Yuri Kozyrev—to outposts in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, where MSF provides help to Syrian refugees. The project, shot over a single day, chronicles the Syrian war’s reach beyond the country’s borders. Phil Zabriskie, Doctors Without Borders’ managing editor, speaks to TIME LightBox.
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Another photographer, Adam Ferguson, and the New York Times’ Paris bureau chief Alissa J. Rubin were also on board and sustained minor injuries. “If we had been another 50 meters higher we’d all be dead,” Ferguson told the Times.
At the annual meeting of Magnum Photos last week, members of the photography collective voted to make Moises Saman, a long-time Magnum associate, a full member of the agency. Bieke Depoorter and Jerome Sessini were elevated from nominees to associate memb
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members of the photography collective voted to make Moises Saman, a long-time Magnum associate, a full member of the agency
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/moises-samans-return-to-iraq.html#slide_ss_0=1
The photographer Moises Saman, who has covered the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war for The New Yorker, has done extensive work in Iraq, but had not been back since 2010. He returned in March to take photographs to accompany my piece, and found what he called “a mood of pessimistic perseverance.”
I asked him how to keep your humanity in a warzone.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/moises-saman-interview-magnum-photography
Peruvian photographer, Moises Saman, has spent his recent years living in Cairo, documenting the Arab Spring’s effect on the city’s residents. Though he might argue “documenting” is the wrong word. His work wilfully avoids a chronological, ordered, historical view of the uprising – instead focusing on honesty and emotions. We spoke to him about how he maintains faith in humanity after working in warzones for years, and the irrelevance of “objectivity” in relation to his work.
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In January of this year, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University sent a team, led by the field director Matthew Adams, to assess what had been stolen. The photographer Moises Saman joined them, in March, to document their operation.
Moises Saman is one of the leading conflict photographers of our time. In recent years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Libya. In the August Issue of WIRED, Saman’s photographs and interviews from Aleppo in Syria accompanied Matthieu Aikins
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Moises Saman is one of the leading conflict photographers of our time. In recent years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Libya. In the August Issue of WIRED, Saman’s photographs and interviews from Aleppo in Syria accompanied Matthieu Aikins’ article about bomb-makers in the rebel homemade arms industry. The assignment was Saman’s third visit Syria since the onset of civil unrest in March 2011. Early in the conflict, he documented protests against the regime in the cities of Hama and Homs and in 2012, Saman was in Aleppo shortly after the Free Syrian Army had taken control.
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I remember photographing the first wave of Syrian refugees in early 2012. Under the cover of a cold winter night, a young couple held tightly to their baby girl while balancing aboard a rickety boat that was smuggling them across the Orontes River, from Syria’s Idlib Province into the safety of Turkey. Since then, more than 1.5 million Syrians have fled their homeland, seeking shelter wherever they can find it: renting apartments in east Amman, sleeping in makeshift tent settlements in the Bekaa Valley, or confined to fenced-in tent-cities along the borders of Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.
“In Lebanon, Hezbollah is both everywhere and nowhere,” the photographer Moises Saman told me. “The conflict in Syria has given weight to the …
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“In Lebanon, Hezbollah is both everywhere and nowhere,” the photographer Moises Saman, whose picture accompanies Dexter Filkins’s piece on Hezbollah in this week’s issue of the magazine, told me
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Last week, as protests once again raged in the streets of Cairo, Magnum photographer Moises Saman was there. Over three days, he documented the ongoing street battles near his residence in the Garden City area—right around the corner from the American Embassy and Tahrir Square.
Moises Saman had been photographing the run-up to the Egyptian elections when the recent riots broke out. He spoke to Lens about the challenges of digging deeper into the story.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/even-in-egypt-a-long-way-to-go/
Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring for The New York Times since its beginning in Tunisia. In July, he moved to Egypt — where, for the last four weeks, he has been photographing the run-up to the Egyptian elections. Mr. Saman, a nominee for membership in the Magnum Photos cooperative, spoke with James Estrin and David Furst
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The photo essay (it’s really a gallery as there’s no storyline nor timeline) is of snapshots (I use this term very respectfully) of daily life in Cairo…the gritty, the edgy, the incomprehensible, the political and the anachronisms that dominate this teeming city.
Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the more memorable he’s taken.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/a-western-photographer-in-hama-syria/
Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the craziest things he’s done.
From February 26th to April 7th, 2011, Moises Saman, on assignment for The New York Times, was one of the few western photographers allowed to work in Tripoli—as a “guest” of the Gaddafi regime.
In Tripoli, Libya, Moises Saman is learning to expect the unexpected.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/at-an-eerie-crossroads-in-tripoli/
The amazing thing is that we’ve been seeing a lot. We thought that we’d be extremely managed by the government and we’d only be seeing what they wanted us to. But they’ve been taking us to places where the fighting has been happening. Today, they took us to Zawiyah, about 30 miles west of Tripoli, which is completely under the control of the opposition. This is really bizarre. They took us right into the opposition side.
Moises Saman, a Magnum photographer on assignment for The Times, was mildly injured in Tunis when police officers attacked him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/photographer-attacked-by-police-in-tunisia/
Moises Saman, a Magnum photographer on assignment to The New York Times, was mildly injured at dusk on Tuesday when he was assaulted by a group of about half a dozen police officers, David D. Kirkpatrick reports from Tunis
via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/q_a_war_photographer_moises_saman.php?page=all
“If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”
Moises Saman, a freelance photographer for The New York Times, arrived there just after United States Marines had secured the district center. Traveling with Taimoor Shah, a Times correspondent and translator who is based in Kandahar, Mr. Saman was working independently from the military, unembedded, seeking to document conditions since the offensive.
Link: On Assignment: A Perilous Route to Marja – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Moises Saman has returned to Afghanistan time and again with the hope of documenting the promise of peace and prosperity, which now seem ever more elusive.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/assignment-17/
KABUL — I was one of the hundreds of young photojournalists who came to this distant country in 2001 to photograph my first war; naïve, a little reckless, and mostly unprepared. At the time, the Taliban ruled most of the country. Only a thin slice of mountainous territory in the north, between Tajikistan and the Panjshir Valley, was controlled by the opposition, the Northern Alliance. My travel companions were Matthew McAllester, who was then a foreign correspondent for Newsday, and Tyler Hicks, a photographer for The New York Times.