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Continue ReadingWhereas the media's visual coverage of the Ground Zero protests tend to frame them as a battle of left vs. right, or protectors of freedom of religion vs. defenders of the victims of 9/11, Alan Chin's photos from Lower Manhattan yesterday take a more practical view.
Continue ReadingJeremy Lange's War Home At Home: The Wounded Warriors of Camp LeJeune. President Obama made a speech from the Oval Office ten days ago, but the question neither he, nor anyone, can truly answer is if all this death and suffering was in vain.
Continue ReadingThe day of the anniversary itself: Alan Chin, Stanley Greene, Andy Levin, and Mario Tama in New Orleans.
Continue ReadingLee Celano, Alan Chin, and Mario Tama: Eyes on Katrina, Five Years Passing
Continue ReadingPhotographer Jeremy Lange photographs the war at home, near his home in North Carolina.
Continue ReadingPhotographer Alan Chin in New Orleans: Ken Feinberg takes over the compensation claims process for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Continue ReadingThe fifth and last of Brendan Hoffman's series from Haiti six months after the earthquake. If so many Haitian farmers hadn't been driven off their land by cheap foreign goods, these photos would represent many more who survived the quake in the capital and were living a sustainable rural...
Continue ReadingThey were willing to identify themselves to a foreign journalist and tell their stories: "They felt that, at least someone is asking and concerned," but Brendan felt, "I wanted to preserve their anonymity as much as possible. So I shot really tight and cropped in on the eyes." Because this...
Continue ReadingThe second reason I wanted to return to Brendan Hoffman's recent images from Haiti is to reinforce the picture of the Haitian character. What we don't see in these two photographs, in the smiles, are a people either in denial of their circumstances or consumed to the core by...
Continue ReadingPhotographer Brendan Hoffman returns to Haiti, six months after the earthquake.
Continue ReadingThe Fourth of July in America: Scenes from Dover and New York
Continue ReadingAlan Chin flying over the Gulf Oil Spill on board a BP helicopter.
Continue ReadingFOCUS ON THE WAR: Peter Van Agtmael covering ground combat in Afghanistan.
Continue Reading“I think it’s a sign of the end of the world,” said Paul Wright, 21, of Oxford. “If lightning is going to strike God, then there’s no hope.” –from “Rebuilt Jesus statue will be fireproof, pastor says.” (Dayton Daily News) The end of the world? How about, a symbolic...
Continue ReadingAlan Chin in Louisiana covering the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Continue ReadingPhotographer Chien-Min Chung's images and report from the bloody crackdown in Bangkok, Thailand.
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