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timelightbox: Photograph by John Moore—Getty Images“I sped out...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:22:34 -0700

Photograph by John Moore—Getty Images

“I sped out to the airport, met up with my charter pilot and we set off in a Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopter into a stiff headwind for the 45 minute flight to the ‘target,’ as he put it,” photographer John Moore tells TIME. He was on assignment for Getty Images on May 14, 2013, tasked with shooting aerial photographs of the iconic JetStar roller coaster in Seaside Heights, New Jersey; now slated for demolition more than six months after Hurricane Sandy had “tossed it in the Atlantic Ocean.”

“I had originally planned to fly later in the afternoon, a little closer to sunset, for the best light,” Moore says, until a tip came in from Getty staff photographer Mark Wilson, who was shooting the scene from the ground, that “the crane was making quick work of it and that I’d better hurry and get up in the air before it was all gone.”

“We flew in circles over the scene for about 25 minutes at varying altitudes, hoping to get a moment when the crane would lift a large piece of the debris from the surf,” he says. The photograph above, featured in this week’s issue of TIME and in LightBox Pictures of the Week, was made “from a height of about 500 feet, shot in the mid-afternoon with a high shutter speed in order to eliminate any possible camera shake from the helicopter.”

“You can see the beach of the Jersey Shore stretching northward, much of it, unlike the jagged pier, restored ahead of the upcoming tourist season, which begins anew with Memorial Day Weekend,” Moore adds. “Local business owners and residents hope the tourist income will help Seaside Heights get back to normal after Sandy’s cruel seas washed so much of their community away.”

—Eugene Reznik

See more of this week’s best photos on LightBox.

JUBA - 24 hours after South Sudan declared independence from...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:07:14 -0700

JUBA - 24 hours after South Sudan declared independence from the north, spectators watch the country’s team play in its first international soccer match, at Juba football stadium, July 10th, 2011.

From Welcome to South Sudan, by Sarah Elliott

Tomorrow, Sebastian Liste will join a panel of photographers...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:06:50 -0700

Tomorrow, Sebastian Liste will join a panel of photographers including Larry Towell, Paolo Pellegrin, and Steve McCurry at the opening of an exhibition of their photographs at La Galerie de l’Instant in Paris.

Caption: SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – DECEMBER 13, 2009: A woman smokes during a Candomble celebration in a favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Candomble is an Afro-Brazilian religion which mixes animist beliefs brought by slaves from Africa with Catholicism introduced by Portuguese colonizers. (Photo by Sebastian Liste/Reportage by Getty Images)

‘This is not the profession for someone who enjoys a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:51:20 -0700

‘This is not the profession for someone who enjoys a routine. Truth be told some days are quite boring. Other days are amazing. Some days are filled with love. A few are terrifying and a significant number are mired in sadness, or tragedy. Some days are like a dream where you feel extremely lucky to be doing what you love. This job exposes one to the entire range of our humanity.’

Mario Tama discusses the daily experience of photojournalist, how he preps for an assignment, and the one story that he feels most connected to. Also, why he sometimes steps out of the digital world to tell stories using a tiny film camera. Read more on Lomography

The Eddie Adams Workshop, a four-day gathering of photography...

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:30:44 -0700

The Eddie Adams Workshop, a four-day gathering of photography professionals and 100 judiciously selected students, marks its 26th year this October. If you are a student or a professional photographer with fewer than three years of experience, submit your application by May 31. This year’s workshop is October 11-14, 2012, in its usual home of Jeffersonville, NY.

Visit the Eddie Adams Workshop application page.

It’s a long weekend of working hard and a little bit of playing hard. For a taste of the latter, see the video made by last year’s Black Team, the group of workshop volunteers. (Bonus points if you spot Reportage editor Lauren Steel flaunting her Gangnam style.)

johndmchugh: Afghan Local Police wait to receive certificates...

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:16:44 -0700

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Afghan Local Police wait to receive certificates from US troops from 1-38 Infantry after they completed a 3 day training course in Panjwayi, Kandahar, 25 April 2013. (John D McHugh)

The News Photographers Association of Canada interviewed Ian...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:37:30 -0700

The News Photographers Association of Canada interviewed Ian Willms, a Reportage Emerging Talent, about his project “As Long as the Sun Shines,” which won a judge’s special recognition in this year’s POYi.

I came into this story thinking I’d do a photo essay on rising cancer rates in towns near the Oil Sands. But it has since become much more than that. I now see this work as being about a vanishing culture and that’s tied to a vanishing environment. This situation is a continuation of a long and painful history of abuses of the First Nations within Canada.

gettyimagesarchive: On this day in 1994 Nelson Mandela was...

Fri, 10 May 2013 07:14:17 -0700

gettyimagesarchive:

On this day in 1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the president of South Africa.

Photos by TOM STODDART

http://www.reportagebygettyimages.com/tom-stoddart

Tom Stoddart Archive

Clockwise from top:

Lines of people wait in the dawn light to vote in the election

Supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) at a rally addressed by ANC leader Nelson Mandela

Two Supporters at an April 1994 ANC (African National Congress) rally in South Africa peer from behind a sign bearing the image of their President Nelson Mandela

See more photos by Tom Stoddart.

“As we come round a bend, we are surprised as we come...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:30:01 -0700

“As we come round a bend, we are surprised as we come across 30-40 people lying face down on the ground, with their hands on their heads. It’s already too late, we have walked right into an ambush. Heavily armed men in military uniforms stop our vehicle, and throw us to the ground with the rest. I am wearing the full hijab, or abaya. I am afraid, very afraid. I don’t think they have seen me properly yet. Here, in these Malian lands, I would be worth a lot of money as a hostage… I think of my daughter. What was I thinking coming here?”

Read more of Veronique De Viguerie’s account of photographing the recent conflict in Mali in the latest Reportage Journal.

Caption: Boni, Mali - January 21: A group of refugees ambushed in the no man’s land between Mali and Burkina Faso. A group of heavily armed hooded men in military uniform forced them from their vehicles, and forced them to the ground. The perpetrators emptied the refugees’ bags and stole everything of value.

Conflict presents itself in many guises. The drug wars in the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:00:52 -0700

Conflict presents itself in many guises. The drug wars in the Mexican border town of Juarez, the world’s homicide capital, take an obvious toll through the deaths of thousands each year. However, this deadly battle has more subtle consequences on the US side of the border, including the development of narcocorridos: music that glamorizes the violence and luxurious lifestyles of the gangsters.

In his upcoming film “Narco Cultura,” filmmaker and photographer Shaul Schwarz lays bare the stark contrast between the two sides of the story through the lives of two characters – crime scene investigator, Rich Soto, and Narco Corrido singer/songwriter, Edgar Quintero.

See a trailer for the film in the Reportage Journal, our online magazine. Click the following link and then “View Videos.”

http://journal.reportagebygettyimages.com/issues/issue-2/narco-cultura/

Caption: Scenes being filmed on the set of the movie “Narco Jr.” in a house in Tijuana on June 25, 2009. Baja Films is a leading production company specializing in low budget “Narco films.”

Diana Markosian, a Reportage Emerging Talent, is presenting work...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:14:25 -0700

Diana Markosian, a Reportage Emerging Talent, is presenting work at Photo Center NW in Seattle on Thursday, May 9, at 6:30. Click here for more details.

Photo Center NW is pleased to host documentary photographer and writer Diana Markosian for a lecture focused on developing a personal visual style as a documentary photographer and photojournalist. Markosian’s reporting has taken her from Russia’s North Caucasus mountains, to the ancient Silk Road in Tajikistan and overland to the remote Wakhan Corridor in northeastern Afghanistan.

Caption: Seda Makhagieva, 15, wraps a pastel-colored head and neck covering in Chechnya in 2012. Makhagieva fought to wear the hijab - a sharp break from her family’s traditions. See more work from this series, “Goodbye my Chechnya,” on the Reportage Web site. (Photo by Diana Markosian)

The Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, Wales, is exhibiting work...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:26:47 -0700

The Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, Wales, is exhibiting work from Sebastian Liste’s “Urban Quilombo” series, beginning tomorrow through June 23. There will be an opening tomorrow at 7pm. Visit the gallery’s Web site for more information.

Sebastian, who is represented by Reportage by Getty Images, is a Spanish photographer now living in Brazil. In 2010, while he was earning a Master’s degree in photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he won the Ian Parry Scholarship for his long-term project ‘Urban Quilombo’, about the extreme living conditions that dozens of families face, who set up home in an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

Caption: A boy jumping from a building of an abandoned chocolate factory, on March 20, 2011, in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. (Photo by Sebastian Liste/Reportage by Getty Images)

Press Freedom Panel Discussion at Frontline Club in London Next...

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:05:59 -0700

Press Freedom Panel Discussion at Frontline Club in London

Next Wednesday, May 8, the Frontline Club in London is convening a panel of media professionals who are working to preserve press freedom and combatting the forces that endanger reporters and photographers. More details below and on the Frontline Club Web site.

Across the world everyday journalists face injuries, kidnappings and death in the line of their work. In the majority of cases the perpetrators are not brought to justice and this evading of punishment often leads to self censorship by other journalists.

Reporting on corruption, crime, conflict, politics and human rights is crucial in society, but how can we better protect the journalists doing this work?

Following World Press Freedom Day we will be bringing together some of the key players that are working on tackling impunity, to discuss the level of the problem and the work they are doing to combat it.

Chaired by Peter Horrocks, the director of BBC Global News, responsible for leading the BBC’s international news services across radio, television and new media. He has worked at the BBC since 1981.

The panel:

Heather Blake is the UK Director for Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) and an affiliate to Pembroke College, Oxford University, Changing Character of War programme.

Elisabeth Witchel is a Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) consultant, she served for many years as the organisation’s journalist assistance coordinator. She launched CPJ’s Global Campaign Against Impunity.

Aidan Sullivan is a photographer, picture editor and vice president of Getty Images. He is the director of the Ian Parry Scholarship and founder of the campaign A Day Without News?.

(Graphic: Reporters Without Borders)

Kitra Cahana Profile The International Center of Photography...

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:11:10 -0700

Kitra Cahana Profile

The International Center of Photography held its annual Infinity Awards gala last night in New York City and, as was announced a few months ago, Reportage contributor Kitra Cahana received the Center’s Young Photographer Award. For this year’s ceremony, ICP commissioned the production company MediaStorm to produce video profiles of each winner. Kitra’s is above, and the others can be seen on MediaStorm’s Web site.

(Video by MediaStorm/ICP)

Ed Ou Lecture in Los Angeles Reportage photographer Ed Ou will...

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:59:14 -0700

Ed Ou Lecture in Los Angeles

Reportage photographer Ed Ou will be speaking at the Annenberg Space for Photography on Thursday night as part of their Iris Nights Lecture Series. Ed Ou is a Canadian photojournalist who has been bouncing around the Middle East, former Soviet Union, Africa and the Americas since 2006. With work recognized by POYi and World Press Photo among others, Ou will discuss personal stories of how people in the news are shaped and affected by the world changing around them.

Details:

Thursday, May 2, 2013
6:30pm to 8pm
The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Caption: Mohamed Agul, 31, afixes an Egyptian flag to his rooftop in the neighborhood of Embaba in Cairo, Egypt July 13, 2011. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

Via CNN.com: While visiting her parents’ homeland of...

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:21:29 -0700

Via CNN.com:

While visiting her parents’ homeland of Lebanon, photojournalist Natalie Naccache noticed most families had a maid who assumed many household roles: cook, housekeeper, mother, nurse. She says the maid culture is embedded in the Lebanese way of life, which is why she chose to capture it in her photo essay “No, Madam.”

Natalie Naccache is a British-Lebanese photographer based in Beirut. She is currently a Reportage Emerging Talent. See more of her work on the Reportage Web site.

Caption: Miles takes dishes back to the kitchen. The 25-year-old Filipina said she is “so happy” working at the family home and feels lucky to have such a job. (Photo by Natalie Naccache)

ICPhoto: Joy, Compassion and Fulfillment: Kitra Cahana's Spiritual Transformation

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:57:13 -0700

ICPhoto: Joy, Compassion and Fulfillment: Kitra Cahana's Spiritual Transformation:

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Honored with the ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer 2013, Kitra Cahana makes poignant photographs of relationships that are personal and intertwined with her own nomadic history.

Karen and Rabbi Ronnie Cahana kiss. Montreal, Canada, 2011.

“Oh my wife. I belong to you. I see the…

humanrightswatch: Tourists take in views of the Caucasus...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:01:14 -0700

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Tourists take in views of the Caucasus Mountains from a chairlift at the newly-constructed Rosa Khutor Alpine Center ski resort in the Caucasus Mountains, which will host the alpine skiing events during the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

© 2012 Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty for Human Rights Watch

Full Video: “God’s Ivory” This is the full...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:27:19 -0700

Full Video: “God’s Ivory”

This is the full 14-minute version of “God’s Ivory,” a film by Reportage by Getty Images that examines the illegal ivory trade and the religious devotion that fuels it. Filmmaker Andrew Hida collaborated with photographer Brent Stirton and writer Bryan Christy to elaborate on the award-winning report the pair originally made for National Geographic in 2012. See more from this feature in the latest issue of Reportage’s online magazine.

The video is also viewable on our YouTube account.

The Russian region of Dagestan has received attention in...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:26:00 -0700

The Russian region of Dagestan has received attention in American media in recent days as the former home of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers suspected of the Boston marathon bombings. Tamerlan reportedly spent six months in Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, in 2012, a trip that is receiving intense scrutiny as investigators try to understand why he and his brother might have carried out the Boston attack.

While their motivations remain largely opaque, Dagestan has proved to be fertile ground for a strain of fundamentalist Islam in recent years, according to the photographer Maria Turchenkova, a Reportage Emerging Talent who is working on a photoessay about life in Dagestan. See photos from her series, “Hidden War,” on the Reportage Web site.

We’d also like to congratulate Maria on her admission to this year’s Joop Swart Masterclass.

UPDATE: Time LightBox published a gallery of Maria’s work yesterday. See it here.

(Photo by Maria Turchenkova)