LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Last week, seven Palestinian men sat for Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer Oded Balilty in a home in the West Bank village of Bilin. Against a black backdrop, one man posed with a taut slingshot, two small pebbles resting in the sling.…
Israel’s Flourishing Russian Culture Oded Balilty thought he knew Israel, the country he grew up in, pretty well. But when he photographed Israel’s Russian-speaking immigrant community, he learned he had a lot to learn. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/israels-flourishing-russian-culture/ In a country full of Jewish immigrants, children of immigrants, and grandchildren of immigrants, Israeli Russians have…
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/09/oded-balilty-the-art-of-storytelling/#1 In the same way that he’s trying to find different stories and make different pictures, Balilty says he’s trying to be a different photographer, too. “If I see photographers in one corner, I go away,” he says. “There is no need…
Back to good news in the photojournalism world: The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week. The Pulitzers are the top awards in newspaper journalism. The award for Breaking News Photography was awarded to Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty for the photo above, of illegal settlers being removed in the West Bank.…