Link: Featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Preston Gannaway and Rick Loomis, Emmy Award winner Paula Lerner, along with Todd Maisel, Chris Usher, Angela Rowlings, Edward Greenberg, Stan Wolfson, and Rita Reed.
Link: Beyond 7 Billion – latimes.com After remaining stable for most of human history, the world’s population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the…
By Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times Cameras. Check. Passport. Check. Bullet proof vest. Check. And so it begins. My ninth trip into Afghanistan, a captivating country where I’ve now spent about two years of my life. Link: Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles…
Toward the end of that fight, when the Marines and Loomis were evacuating the area, he had to make a decision. Was he only a photographer, or was he going to put down his cameras and help a young Marine, Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, who had been shot several times through the chest during the…
APAD says: This is a really great look at covering a war — through a photojournalist’s lens. LA Times photojournalist Rick Loomis takes you from his storage locker in California into battle in Fallouja. The self portraits over time are very telling, and there are some fun stories about drinking Saddam’s wine seeing a woman…
By Rick Loomis, LA Times How can you never forget someone you never knew? I did take Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin’s photo, but I take photographs of people every day and I can’t say I knew him. It’s the picture I didn’t take that has left Austin burned forever in my memory. Check it…
