David Schalliol from Chicago: How Do You Photograph the Emergence of Nothing?
How strange it is to live in a new place without even moving.
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Stacy Kranitz: From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood
More than just immersing myself in the daily experience of their lives, I wanted to make something that represented the peculiar power relationship between subject and documenter, by looking at the ways that I provoked, empowered and exploited my ‘subjects’
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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: 9/11 Turns Twelve
Good hack and lensman that I am, I fight for access to restricted areas, bemused that the young men and women in uniforms who see journalists as intrusive adversaries have no idea that, the dozen years back, I was here too.
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James Whitlow Delano – Third Dispatch: Tribes Losing Rainforest Battle to the Logging Conglomerates
We found the Penan building yet another barricade along the main logging road. Yet, loggers always come back with bulldozers and sweep aside any barrier in their path.
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Ruddy Roye from Jamaica: The Hardest Time We Have Ever Had To Go Through
Each year whenever I visit my home of Montego Bay, it is difficult to avoid the stark faces of suffering people living in what I can only describe as a stagnant existence. I am both conscious and aware of the slow struggles of some the Jamaican people, especially poor...
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David Degner in Cairo: Putting Names and Faces to Morsi Supporters for a Change
Photographer David Degner has been living and working in Cairo for several years and covering the Arab Spring and its turbulent trajectory there and also in Libya and Syria. After the Egyptian army and police stormed the Muslim Brotherhood’s encampments protesting the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, David made...
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Rita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan #2 – That Indecipherable Taliban Message
The importance of man’s oldest technology—language—is all but ignored in modern military training. And yet, military conquest and empire building has always been connected to language.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: From a Focus on Buildings and Landscape, Photographing People
Now that I am engaged in a project about a specific neighborhood, documenting the demolition of a corner of Englewood to accommodate the major expansion of that freight yard, my photographic relationship to people is changing.
Continue ReadingDavid Degner in Cairo: Scenes from the Toppling of a Government (Once Again)
Cairo photographer David Degner provides key scenes and details preceding the removal of President Morsi from power by the military.
Continue ReadingJames Whitlow Delano – Second Dispatch: As the Rainforest Goes, So Go the Batek?
I was mingling with one of the oldest tribes of humanity and they may vanish before most of the human family even know that they had ever existed at all. It may sound heady, but I am honestly trying to do my part to prevent this from happening.
Continue ReadingRita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan
So this photo is one of the first I ever shot on a phone cam of any kind, and on the iPhone Hipstamatic app in particular. Already I could feel I was photographing a memory that wasn’t a memory I actually had.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: How a 400 Family Neighborhood Became Urban Prairie
Of course, expanding a freight yard in the middle of the country’s third largest city isn’t simply a matter of construction.
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James Whitlow Delano – First Dispatch: Return to the Rainforest
Over the months ahead, I want to make some sense about how a long-term project on the needless destruction of the equatorial rainforest came to be an obsession and how I have attempted to visually portray this form of daylight robbery.
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Alan Chin from Watertown, MA: Endgame at 67 Franklin Street
Inside the police perimeter on Franklin Street it was hushed and quiet, with only the sound of generators powering the metal halide arc lights and a flight of bats rustling tree branches on what would return soon to simply a chilly spring night.
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Alan Chin from the Memorial Service in Newtown, CT: Different This Time?
Perhaps what's unique about the Newtown shooting massacre, and the photos of this memorial service, is the widespread recognition of its utter familiarity.
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Alan Chin in Nashua, New Hampshire: Pressing The Flesh
President Obama campaigns in New Hampshire, hugging babies and also adding exclamation points!
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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: You Said You'd Never Forget
Alan Chin's moving photo-essay on the 9/11 anniversary losing its significance with images side-by-side of the near-completed Freedom Tower and his father's photo of the original World Trade Center under construction.
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Concern for New Orleans/Katrina II Really an RNC Scheduling Factor? (Photos by Brendan Hoffman)
After canceling Day 1 of the Republican Convention due to weather, and with Tropical Storm Isaac now gathering steam with a bead on New Orleans, might further postponements have to do with basic compassion? the re-deployment of security resources?
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