February 2012
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The journalism community was devastated yesterday by the deaths of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik in Syria. Time Lightbox put up this look back at Remi’s life and work, please take a look.
In this letter, Sunday Times Editor John Witherow speaks about Marie:
Marie was an extraordinary figure in the life of The Sunday Times, driven by a passion to cover wars in the belief that what she did...
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Toby Smith's China Energy work is featured on... →
To view the full feature on the Reportage web site, click here.
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Judging World Press Photo
Our own Aidan Sullivan, recent Jury Chair for the World Press Photo competition, has now returned from two weeks of reviewing over 100,000 images shot 2011. In recent press he shares some thoughts on his experience.
From the British Journal of Photography:
“2011 was a momentous year…in the end, we tried to distill it down to what was the most important thing - the people.
The...
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WatchAidan Sullivan, Getty Images Vice President of Photo Assignment and World Press Photo jury chair, speaks about the process of choosing a single image as Photo of the Year.
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Watch‘CHECK POINT 2.5’ shot by John D McHugh whilst filming The Winter War in the Kunar province of Afghanistan.
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John D McHugh - The Winter War →
This film by John D McHugh from Afghanistan’s Kunar province aired last night on Al Jazeera.
“As we crammed ourselves into the low-slung cargo seats of the Chinook, abandoning any effort to strap ourselves in, I thought back over my time on the mountaintop. For the first nine days there had been a lot of shooting. Not the up close and personal kind of close quarter combat that I...
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WatchReportage photographer Shaul Schwarz has spent years documenting Mexico’s drug war and Narco Cultura. He discusses his work and the current situation in Mexico in this interview with CNN.
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WatchAidan Sullivan, Vice President of Photo Assignment at Getty Images, is currently serving as Jury Chairman for the judging of World Press Photo. Here he shares his thoughts on the process of judging, his role as chairman, and how the jury decides which images to send through to the next round.
Please see more interviews with the jury members here.
January 2012
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Watchjanrosseel:
Multimedia project ‘The dust of Others’. A story about people living in the dust of economic progress.
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WatchReflections on an Unfinished Revolution
Via New York Times: The youth of Egypt and the slow pace of change, one year on from the revolution. By Reportage photographer Ed Ou.
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Aidan Sullivan to Replace David Friend as World...
World Press Photo Press release - Aidan Sullivan, vice president of photo assignments for Getty Images, will chair the 2012 World Press Photo Photo Contest jury. He takes over the task from David Friend who has been forced to pull out for medical reasons.
Aidan Sullivan started his career as a staff photographer for a local newspaper in the UK at the age of 18, and then freelanced as a news...
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WatchFor The New Yorker, Jonathan Torgovnik followed Eric Goode as he worked to save Madagascar’s Plowshare Tortoise:
“It’s often described as the world’s rarest tortoise, and it reportedly fetches huge prices on the illegal wildlife market, for as much as $100,000 in Europe and America.”
Please see still images and Jonathan’s reflections on the shoot here.
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WatchCovering a Revolution: In this video, Filmmaker Oliver Wilkins documents what happens when 17 young Egyptian and American journalists gather in Egypt to report on the continuing changes in the country. The fellowship program, created by GlobalPost and Open Hands Initiative, included Reportage photographer Kim Badawi, who contributed this report on the controversy over Tahrir Square’s...
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WatchIn this time-lapse video, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik documents the artist JR as he plasters faces on two Los Angeles buildings. To see more photos from Jonathan’s shoot with JR check out the GQ slideshow.
December 2011
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WatchIn this video, Benjamin Lowy talks to CNN’s Errol Barnett about some of his images from the Iraq war, and how he’s changed since the war began.
“[In 2003] I was an immature, gung-ho kid who wanted to be a war photographer…I was in it for the adventure. Whereas now I’m in it for being on the forefront of history.”
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Photographer Diary: Lisa Wiltse
The town of Potosi, Bolivia is intimately tied to the silver mine at Cerro Rico, first discovered in the 16th Century. Here, Reportage photographer Lisa Wiltse writes about her experience working in Potosi and her own perilous journey into the mine.
Please visit the Reportage by Getty Images site to see the full feature, In the Shadow of Cerro Rico.
“Don’t touch any of the wires or you could...
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WatchIn this video from the World Press Photo Masterclass, Antonio Bolfo discusses how he came to photography, his work with people living on a massive garbage dump in Haiti, and where he wants to go from here.
Please click here to see more videos from the Masterclass participants, including Reportage photographers Sebastian Liste, Kitra Cahana, and Alinka Echeverria.
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WatchJon Stewart interviews Reportage by Getty Images photographer Benjamin Lowy on The Daily Show (video may not play outside of North America).
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WatchWho’s your CNN Hero? Every year, CNN announces 10 finalists for it’s Heroes program, highlighting people who make a positive difference in the world. For the past several years, Reportage photographers have documented them and their work. In this video, Jonathan Torgovnik talks about his experience photographing Derreck Kayango, who runs The Global Soap Project, in Uganda.
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