Ahn Sehong’s Photos of ‘Comfort Women’ in China
A very interesting glimpse of history, and great photographs from the “Lens” section of the NYTimes. Ahn Sehong had to go to China to recover a vanishing — and painful — part of Korea’s wartime...
View ArticlePhotography as Evidence – Ron Haviv
A graduate of New York University, Ron Haviv has covered conflict and other humanitarian crises worldwide since the end of the Cold War. Haviv is known for his broad documentation of the Yugoslav Wars:...
View ArticleDo We Need A New “Documerica”?
Do We Need A New Documerica? - I certainly think we do! Documerica was a simple concept… In the 1970s, a newly created Environmental Protection Agency hired a bunch of freelancers to document...
View ArticleJames Karales’s Photos of the Civil Rights Movement
Yet another compelling essay from the NY Times Lens blog. Make sure you take a look by following the link below… “The hands of the father and his young daughter wave emphatically: the two are not in...
View ArticleFifteen Years of Human Rights Photography, Now Available Online
Thanks to PPL member Gary Fulk for this… The Open Society Foundations are making available to the public an expansive documentary photography collection chronicling some of the most pressing human...
View ArticleDaniel Hernández-Salazars Coverage of the Ríos Montt Genocide Trial
Daniel Hernández-Salazar is used to waiting. Two decades ago he abandoned his photojournalistic career to devote himself to documenting the search for justice in the wake of Guatemala’s 36-year civil...
View ArticleVlad Sokhins Photos of Haitis Child Servants
Yet another “home-run” from the Lens section of the NY Times… Twelve-year-old Judeline crouches at the feet of a much younger girl, lifting high a makeup kit so the little girl, Boubou, can apply a...
View ArticleMonks’ Message of Humility
Reuters photographer Ricardo Moraes spent time documenting a religious fraternity called O Caminho, The Way, a group of Franciscan monks and nuns who help the homeless on the streets of Rio de Janeiro....
View ArticleWitness to a Massacre: Photographs from Rabaa
Mosa’ab Elshamy is a 23-year-old freelance photographer in Cairo. Studying to be a pharmacist when the Egyptian revolution broke out in 2011, Elshamy joined the protests with his camera as a citizen...
View ArticleOut of the Furnace – A Pennsylvania Steel Town’s Fight for Survival
I recently took a trip out to western Pennsylvania, where I had a chance to visit the once thriving town of Braddock. Braddock is a borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny...
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