Joao Silva: ‘This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.’
Joao Silva's work will be featured this week at the Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival. Earlier in August, Mr. Silva spoke in front of a large audience at the Bronx Documentary Center. Here is...
View ArticleImages of Libya from a Fallen Photographer
Tim Hetherington changed lives and journalism. A friend reflects on that enduring legacy, and how it inspired an exhibition opening this weekend in New York.
View ArticleLifesaving Training for Reporters
A year after the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, a new program aims to teach freelancers how to save lives. Sebastian Junger, who started the program to honor Mr. Hetherington, his...
View ArticleA South Bronx Family Album
For Ricky Flores, one of the photographers in a group exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center, chronicling his South Bronx neighborhood transformed him from a hobbyist into an obsessive.
View ArticleToppling Saddam and a War’s Coverage
The gripping footage of a Baghdad throng toppling Saddam Hussein's statue was hardly the turning point of the war. If anything, it symbolized the problems covering the conflict.
View ArticleA Photographer’s Unfiltered Account of the Iraq War
In a new oral history of the Iraq war, Peter van Agtmael discusses what attracted him to photographing the American-led invasion — his roots, ambitions, experiences and reflections.
View ArticleChecking In to a New Life in America
A refugee's first night in the United States, usually spent in a quintessentially American environment — the nondescript airport hotel room — can be an experience of exhaustion, fear, anxiety and wonder.
View ArticleNo Choice but to Protest and Take Pictures
A retrospective of Ben Fernandez’s images of the 1960s reveals a man who not only documented protests, but also educated a generation to follow his lead.
View ArticleBlack Fathers, Present and Accountable
Zun Lee has produced a photo book that challenges the persistent narrative that African-American fathers are absent from the lives of their children.
View ArticleErnesto Bazan’s Cuban Trilogy
Eight years after he had to leave Cuba, Ernesto Bazan has come out with an ambitious book of panoramic photos where multiple stories play out in each frame.
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