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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...
The term ‘Prepper’ refers to anyone who is preparing for the worst situations that may befall them: blackouts, food shortages, economic collapse, anarchy. Tim Ralston (top image) has become something of an icon among the Prepper community. He runs a successful business selling emergency supplies online, and has created a device he calls the Crovel: a swiss army knife shovel. He maintains a certain degree of secrecy - to meet with Ralston at his bunker in Arizona, the writer and photographer on this assignment were blindfolded, so as not to give away the specific location.
See more from Preppers, by Charles Ommanney, here.
Tripoli, Libya I July 24, 2012
During the early morning ours after breaking their Ramadan fast, young Libyan men gather at a Tripoli pier to drift and drag race their cars. In typical Libyan fashion, the over-the-top dragging display destroys the vehicles in favor of reckless showmanship. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Getty Reportage)
Conflict photographer Ben Lowy, on a grant from the Magnum Foundation’s Emergency Fund, has spent the last two weeks shooting from Libya on a photojournalism inspired Hipstamatic lens — and posting exclusively to Tumblr. Check out Lowy’s Tumblr and Storyboard’s interview with the photographer.
Julien Goldstein has been nominated for the Visa d’Or Feature award, for his project Kurdistan: People with No Rights, but Anger. Winners will be announced Friday, September 7. The full feature is on the Reportage site.
The Kurdish people who, for more than two thousand years, have been living in the lands of Anatolia and Persia, have their own unique history. Their land exists: it is Kurdistan, extending from the Anatolian plateau and plains to the Zagros mountains, but the borders of this vast land have never been recognized by any State. There is a land, a language and a culture, yet today, in the early 21st century, the 40 million Kurds of the Middle East now form the largest population of stateless persons in the world.
Everywhere we went, the Kurds we met conveyed the same feeling: the sense of belonging to a population that has been “sacrificed” by history.
In the 20th century in particular, when this region of the world was weakened a number of times and saw its geopolitical map redrawn, the Kurds have never managed to gain recognition of their land and rights. Almost one century after the promise made by the Allied powers in 1920 to establish a “Great Kurdistan” in the Middle East, a promise never kept, the Kurds are still struggling to achieve this goal. With the exception of Iraq, with a Kurdish autonomous region in the north of the country since 1992, this is an ongoing struggle of an entire people, fighting for their rights – the right to their identity and the right to democracy.
Once called the ‘Most Dangerous City in the World,’ Mogadishu is now slowly transitioning to peace.
Images: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - APRIL 30, 2012: The AMISOM (African Union Mission In Somalia) base at what was previously the luxury Hotel Al-Uruba in Mogadishu. AMISOM are operated by the African Union, with the United Nations’ approval. Their role since March 2007 has been to to train Somali security forces, implement national security, support the transitional government, and create security for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - MAY 2, 2012: A teacher helps students in a recently renovated primary school for displaced children in Mogadishu. It opened in August 2011, and has 300 students; 200 boys and 100 girls.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - MAY 2, 2012: A vendor prepares fresh catch at the booming fish market in Mogadishu. Fishermen, guarded by AMISOM weapons trained at the port entrance during the night, steer their boats in a particular way, as a code confirming that they are friendly, to bring their catch into port.
The documentary film Taqwacore : The Birth of Punk Islam features still images by Reportage photographer Kim Badawi, and a screening in Paris July 18 will be followed by a Q&A with Kim.
‘Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam follows Michael and his kindred spirits as they travel across the U.S. in their green school bus, challenging Muslims and non-Muslims with punchy anthems like Sharia Law in the U.S.A. Their spiritual odyssey then leads them to Pakistan, where they bring punk to the streets of Lahore and reconnect with Islam in a bold new way.’
TIMBUKTU, MALI, JANUARY 2010: Men carry out prayers and remembrance as part of Islamic funeral rituals in Timbuktu. Funerals in Timbuktu are conducted separately, with the women mourning inside the house of the deceased and the men outside on the street. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images).
As reported by the BBC, Islamist rebel groups in Mali destroyed six mausoleums in Timbuktu over the weekend, in what the International Criminal Court described as a “war crime.”
See more Timbuktu images by Brent Stirton on the Reportage Features page.
Maya Chirkova has paired Belarussian women in the city of Hrodna with foreign men for 15 years. She claims that 95 percent of men who come to Hrodna through her agency, Gimeney, find a wife and has tallied some 400 marriages to men from Western Europe and, recently, North America. Affiliated with La Strada International, the European network against trafficking, the agency also employs a psychologist to train the staff, and Chirkova takes personal responsibility to screen each woman for her catalog. In fact, she operates more like a traditional matchmaker than like a broker and even introduced her only son to his wife—a former client who had been determined to find a French husband.
Her agency is not a stereotypical meat market where repugnant Westerners purchase young Slavic beauties for trophy wives. Chirkova’s female clients are of all ages and professions, and she insists that they have as much authority over their choices as the men do. Natalia, a 31-year-old personal trainer, convinced her French fiancé, Filip, to lose 24 kilograms and encouraged him to adopt a more modern sense of fashion.
Women from Hrodna officially outnumber men 1.4 to 1, although locals claim the ratio is much higher. The women I photographed are Chirkova’s clients. Their sories dispel many conceptions of marriage agencies and reveal the deeper social conditions particular to both this specific region and Belarus as a whole, where men are spoiled by a plethora of beautiful women, and the Western concept of feminism is relative to Belarusian reality.
The premier issue of Huffington, the iPad magazine from Huffington Post, launched yesterday and featured a nice big edit of David Hogsholt’s story on the Korean sea-diving women. Here’s just a few of the images that they ran.
The cast and crew of “Khoaf,” a film by Salim Shaheen, prepare to shoot a scene on the outskirts of Kabul. The film industry in the capital, once banned under the Taliban, is thriving, but a lack of education and modern equipment has made progress challenging. Photo: Jonathan Saruk
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Quilombo - A culture of resistance
In Brazil, during the four centuries of tension and confrontation of classes in the slavery system, thousands of slaves escaped from the europeans plantations and created the quilombos.
Originally “quilombo” means “place where one is with God” in Banto language. The quilombo rebuilt in Brazil as a territorial organization of African origin and it worked as an outlet against the violence of slavery. Wherever slavery flourished, so did resistance. Even under the threat of the whip, slaves tried to carve spaces of autonomy through rebellions. And then they created a new social organization of runaway slave communities represented resistance against European acculturation.
During the slavery times in Brazil and almost hidden from civilization, the free slaves recreated their African origins. They have never abandoned their culture, keeping the secrets of ancient customs. This alternative communities sought to reproduce Africa in the Americas, and in which all members were free and equal, just as they had been in their homeland.
In the Amazon, hundreds of families lived and produced hidden in the bush, running away from slavery for an unknown time length.During my course over the TransAmazonian I have met some of these maroon communities. There, inhabitants still retaining the memory of the time of slavery while they managed for generations to pass on the secrets of the rivers and jungle to survive.
