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Astronauts Snag Dramatic Photographs of Alaska’s Erupting Volcano
Images of volcanoes from space are often kind of dull. These, we assure you,...
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Melville B. Grosvenor, Editor of the Magazine and President of the Society, admires new globes on a conveyor belt in a Chicago plant, December 1961.
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Photojournalist Sharing the World through Instagram
Photojournalists from around the globe have begun using Instagram as an...
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New portfolio books for @brinsonbanks came in yesterday. Excited to get these out in the world.
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Time flies when you’re having fun! Open Show New York City launched at the BDC last year and it’s great to welcome them back to...
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Burma: Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State
Burmese authorities and members of Arakanese groups have committed crimes against...
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“Be a human first and a journalist second,” Donna De Cesare once told me.
Even before she became my professor at the University of Texas, Austin, I...
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“I am at war with the obvious,” the photographer William Eggleston said in a conversation with the author Mark Holborn, which became the afterward...
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If you’re in New Orleans, do not miss the screening of Steve Pyke’s Moonbug on April 13.
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Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor
Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of the most remote, high-altitude, bewitching...
Taiz, Yemen | April 12, 2013 A woman takes a sip of a late night fruit juice at a Shesha bar in Taiz. After my experience in Libya - where women were forbidden to smoke in public - and with the conservative reputation that Yemen has - this came as quite a surprise. #photojournalism #photooftheday #documentary #iphoneography #iphoneonly #igers #streetphotography #picoftheday #yemen #cafe #shesha #taiz
January 2011 - Egyptian protesters cheer members of the military as they arrive in Cairo after a day of unrest. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)
Two years ago, the Egyptian Revolution began; it would eventually end Hosni Mubarak’s almost 30 years in power. Take a look back at more of Ed’s photos from Egypt in 2011 here.
In 2010, photographer Paula Bronstein documented a special section of the Marines working in Afghanistan - a Female Engagement Team (FET). Muslim tradition often forbids interaction between men and women, so the FET was created in order to engage with the local female population.
Yesterday, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the Pentagon would formally open combat roles to female soldiers.
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy builds a snowman at the Western Wall. The worst snowstorm in 20 years has shut roads and schools in Jerusalem as the harsh weather affects regions across the Middle East Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
…talk to any coalition troops on the ground and they will tell you the Afghans can fight, but only after they have been fed, clothed, armed and delivered to the battlefield by NATO. Chief Warrant Officer Klaus Augustinus is a Danish mentor/advisor to the ANA and is on his third tour in Afghanistan. He openly admits that he was unimpressed with the ANA in the past, but now he feels they are making real progress. However, he says, it is the insistence on viewing the ANA through the prism of a Western army that leads to many problems. “Always keep in mind that the Afghan way is the right way,” Klaus says. “We’re not going to do it any faster than they can cope with it. Otherwise we’re going to lose.”
-Filmmaker and photographer John D McHugh.
Read more and watch the film, Afghanistan: An Army Prepares, here.
Bringing Images Home to Afghanistan
This photo by Paula Bronstein, of an Afghan electrician at work in 2006, is included in an outdoor exhibition in Kabul called Streets of Afghanistan. Exhibition director Shannon Galpin explains the purpose of the show:
‘Really what we wanted to do is bring these images home, because in Afghanistan images are taken every day. People from around the world are in Afghanistan as journalists and photojournalists taking pictures that will never be seen by Afghans. This is something that has never been done before; a collaboration of life-size photography used as street art.’
‘Afghanistan is certainly a difficult place, but there are positive things happening there. I think it’s been hard for people sitting at home to relate to Afghans so I hope my work shows that they are human too.’
Photographer Jonathan Saruk seeks out signs of normalcy in Afghanistan, such as the rising popularity of movie houses. See more on Wired Raw File.
For many years I have heard the American military in Afghanistan use the phrase, “putting an Afghan face on the war.” It is invoked when the coalition has achieved something it wishes to publicise, but wants to give all the credit to the Afghan troops. The theory is that by praising the Afghans their morale is improved, making it more likely that they will do better in the future. At the same time, the media report this Afghan “success” back in the West, giving hope to the public that the Afghans are improving and so the war will soon be over.
I feel these portraits…do something I’ve wanted to do for many years. They put an Afghan face on the war!
-Photographer John D McHugh, on his project The People of Afghanistan
Images:
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, politician and runner up in the last Afghanistan Presidential election
Madina Saidi, skateboarder and instructor at the Skateistan NGO
Lieutenant Jan Aqa, Afghan National Army
Libyan Federalists clash with police outside an election polling station on July 7, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. Benghazi Federalists believe their city, where the uprising against Gaddafi began, will be under-represented in the new Libyan government. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images for The Magnum Emergency Fund)
Benjamin Lowy’s full feature iLibya: Growing Pains is now on Reportage.
