The devastation caused by TB is a rarely told story. For many people in the developed world TB is a disease consigned......
(3rd Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, Best of Photojournalism 2010) Congratulations to all the other winners. This video......
even when it's telling the truth? Essential reading. ...
Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous shots in the world (the dogs and......
“In times when (some) photographers hold celebrity status, it is useful to be reminded that a good photograph does not solely depend on the photographer’s ability to choose the right subject, location and light,......
Following on from Platon's recent civil rights portraits in the New Yorker, Magnum's Bruce Davidson looks back at his time documenting the period in......
It's difficult to squash a big subject like the US civil rights movement into a 15 minute multimedia piece but Platon's current project for......
Photographer Stephen Ferry has spent the best part of a decade documenting the brutal Colombian civil war. Its population is terrrorised by both the......
Some photography creates distances, puts the people in the pics out on some distant horizon you'll never reach, nor would you want to. Other photography closes the gap, creates understanding and feels like a......
Don McCullin is not only a great photographer but he's also a great talker. I caught him this morning on the BBC's TODAY programme. It was a powerful listen. Important too to hear a......
This powerful audio slideshow is brought impressively to life by Olince Calixte, a blind street musician from Port au Prince. It's also a journey from pain, trauma and shock through to the first signs of......
Sadly people are not really interested in the photographs I take of a rather depressing side of our society - Don McCullin. In 1989, British photojournalist......
Magnum's Susan Meiselas on photography's potential to connect and move audiences by "expanding the circle of knowledge" about human rights and social justice issues. ...
"Our original mission was to provide airborn medical relief in the developing world but since 1992 we've been heavily involved in......
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful work. Would have loved to have read the text that went with. Please take note ... that's the work of a proper multimedia journalist. THANK YOU Torsten Kjellstrand of the Oregonian ...
Very roughly some 2000 years ago we nailed some bloke called Jesus to a tree. Nothing new about that. Nailing people to trees was a rather effective form of crowd control. Since then though a lot......
A few days back I exchanged emails with the photographer Stephen Alvarez, who for the last fifteen years has shot for National Geographic. He suggested we take the conversation onto our blogs. If you're not......
Oxfam have billed it as possibly the most important meeting in history. And it probably is, until the next one. We are of course talking about the Copehagen Climate talks. But after a week of, well......
(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play) It's one of those moments you don't......
Just wish more photographers told stories about the developing world with the depth and insight of this production by the Los Angeles Times. Somebody taught this filmmaker how to listen ... ...