Features and Essays | October 2012
Love this Cuba feature by Paolo Pellegrin for the National Geographic Magazine. Published in the November issue.

Photo © Paolo Pellegrin
Paolo Pellegrin: Cuba’s New Now (NGM) After half a century under Castro, Cubans feel a wary sense of possibility. But this time, don’t expect a revolution.
Also in the latest National Geographic Magazine issue…Eugene Richards from Arkansas Delta… his feature mixes current work with photos from the early 70s.

Photo © Eugene Richards
Eugene Richards: Return to the Arkansas Delta (NGM) The delta west of the Mississippi River was once a place where sharecroppers lived in segregation and poverty yet forged a vibrant community. Industrial farming has erased their culture, leaving behind endless sky and few people. Eugene Richards documented their world four decades ago. Now he returns to where his pictures began.
Dominic Nahr’s recent Somalia work shot for Time, now on his agency’s website.

Photo © Dominic Nahr
Dominic Nahr: Scarred Somalia’s War on al-Qaeda (Magnum)
Abbie Trayler-Smith: The Ladies of Guera (Panos) Chad
Kate Holt: Inside Somalia: Violence Against Women and Girls (Guardian) multimedia
New work by Stephanie Sinclair on her child brides project.

Photo © Stephanie Sinclair
Stephanie Sinclair: Trading Childhood for Marriage (CNN)
Jessica Dimmock short film on the same young woman…
Jessica Dimmock: Too Young to Wed: Destaye (Vimeo)
Some of Sinclair’s Child Brides in Politiken…
Stephanie Sinclair: Child Brides (Politiken)
Jerome Delay: Niger’s Hunger Brides (Guardian)
Mads Nissen: A Silent Libya After Gadhafi (CNN)
Louis Quail: Libya: Life After Gaddafi (Guardian)
Ben Lowy: iLibya: Growing Pains (Reportage by Getty Images)
Ben Lowy: iLibya (Mother Jones)
Ilvy Njiokiktjien: Afrikaner Blood (Politiken) multimedia
Nicola Lo Calzo: Slavery’s Ghosts (Newsweek)
James Oatway: A Tale of Two Angolas (Panos)
Kieran Doherty: Daily Life in Liberia (Guardian)
Pierre Crocquet: Confronting Childhood Sexual Abuse (NYT Lens)
Magnum nominee Jerome Sessini has been documenting violence in Culiacan, Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico for years… He has a book titled The Wrong Side coming out in spring 2013… Some of the work in CNN photo blog..

Photo © Jerome Sessini
Jerome Sessini: The wrong side’ of the Mexican border (CNN)
David Rochkind: Mexico’s drug war ‘impossible to ignore’ (CNN)
Matt Black: After the Fall (NYT Lens) Mexico
Matt King: Being Strong – Growing up with Violence in Mexico (Foto8)
Miguel Alvarez Bravo: retrospective (Lightbox)
Oscar B. Castillo had a terrific slideshow on Lightbox just before the recent Venezuelan presidential elections…

Photo © Oscar B. Castillo
Oscar B. Castillo: The Street Gangs of Caracas (Lightbox)
Meridith Kohut: Portraits of Chavez Supporters (NYT)
Tomas Munita: Chile’s Challenge on Easter Island (NYT)
Stephen Ferry: Violentology: Colombian Conflict (Lightbox)
Yuri Kozyrev: The Occupation of the Belo Monte Dam (NOOR) Brazil
Miquel Dewever-Plana (photographer) Isabelle Fougere (writer): Alma: A Tale of Guatemala’s Violence (Lightbox)
Jorge Dan Lopez: Thieves face lynch mob (Reuters) Guatemala City | related: photographer’s blog post
Time Lightbox recently shared a 100+ image edit of chief White House photographer Pete Souza’s work on the Obama presidency… I guess I should probably take these images with a grain of salt in the journalistic sense considering he is employed by the administration he is documenting, but I do find the work fascinating…It’s a great historical record…with loads of really terrific frames…

Photo © Pete Souza/White House
Pete Souza: Portrait of a Presidency (Lightbox)
Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath photos in New Yorker Photo Booth by various photographers…
New Yorker: Hurricane Sandy in Photos (Photo Booth) Sandy’s Aftermath, NYC (Photo Booth) After Sandy in Manhattan And The Rockaways (Photo Booth)
Time sent five photographers to document the hurricane…
Time (photographers Michael Christopher Brown, Benjamin Lowy, Ed Kashi, Andrew Quilty and Stephen Wilkes): In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath (Lightbox)
Shaul Schwarz shot Sandy for NBC News.
Shaul Schwarz: Sandy’s path of destruction leaves mark on Brooklyn (NBC News)

Photo © Joe Amon
Joe Amon: Heroin in Denver : The Story of Alice and Iris (Denver Post)
Andrew Hetherington: Inside the Pot Industrial Complex (Newsweek)
Ashley Gilbertson: Incarceration’s Stigma – Mercedes Smith (VII)
Ron Haviv: Incarceration’s Stigma – Ronald Day (VII)
Brenda Ann Kenneally: Sharing Life and Liquor on a Changing Bushwick Street (NYT Lens)
Brenda Ann Kenneally: In Drug-Riddled Bushwick, Revisiting a Steadfast Friend (NYT Lens)
21st century FSA…

Photo © Andrew Lichtenstein
Andrew Lichtenstein: An American Place (Facing Change)
Gary Knight: Inmigracion Topografia (VII)
Marc Asnin: Embracing Uncle Charlie (CNN)
Brendan Hoffman: Middle-class America searches for new identity (CNN)
Bryan Schutmaat: Beauty, sorrow of American West (CNN)
NYT (various photographers): Fracking (NYT Lens)
Jan Banning: Down and Out in the South (CNN)
Don Doll: Native Americans (NYT Lens)
Really like the below shot by Christopher Anderson of VP Biden… Shame there’s only half a dozen photos in the series on Magnum website…

Photo © Christopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson: Joe Biden (Magnum)
Christopher Anderson: A Political Portfolio (New York magazine)
Charles Ommanney: Romney in Florida (Newsweek)
Peter Bohler: From the Campaign Trail with Paul Ryan (Lightbox)
Christopher Morris: Republican Faces (VII)
Brendan Hoffman: Photos of What It Looks Like To Be a Democrat (PhotoShelter)
Greta Pratt: Looking Presidential (NYT Lens)
Robert Leslie: A Photographic Road Trip Through a Familiar Superpower (NYT Lens)
Benedict Evans: Behind the Scenes of Platon’s “Adversaries” (New Yorker)
Alec Soth: Looking for Love (Lightbox)
Lauren Fleishman: Wheelchair Bodybuilders (Lightbox)
Brian Frank: Mixed Martial Arts (NYT Lens)
Mark Lyon: Staring at the Wall, Encountering Nature (NYT Lens)
Stephen Morton: Geechees Fragile Culture (zReportage)
Rick Sforza: Shrinking Sea (zReportage)
Pat Vasquez-Cunningham: Sacred Mountain Threatened (zReportage)

Photo © Cedric Gerbehaye
Cedric Gerbehaye: Belgium: A Country in Flux (Lightbox)
Charles Ommanney: Made in France (Newsweek)
Andrea Frazzetta: The Enchanted Island of Centenarians (NYT Magazine)
Adam Ferguson shot Greece’s continuing economic crisis for the New York Times…

Photo © Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson: Lean Times in Greece as Government Cuts More Spending (NYT) entire edit in VII archive here. Also on offer in colour, which I actually personally slightly prefer.
Zalmai: In Restive Greece, Afghans Greeted by Xenophobia (NYT Lens)
Tom Jamieson: On Europe’s Border (Emaj Magazine) Greece
Andrea Gjestvang: One Day in History (Moment agency archive) Portraits of young people who survived the massacre at the summer camp of Norwegian Labour Youths (AUF), on the island of Utøya outside Oslo on July 22nd 2011
Peter Marlow: Morning glory: England’s cathedrals (FT)
Arnhel de Serra: Rural Britannia (New Yorker)
Maciej Dakowicz: Cardiff After Dark (Guardian)
Jocelyn Bain Hogg: Mr. English Beauty (CNN)
Tom Wood: Men and Women (Guardian) UK
Birte Kaufmann: Ireland’s Biggest Minority Group (CNN)
Kuba Kaminski: The Whisperers (NYT Lens) Poland
Piotr Malecki: Commuters (Panos) Poland
I found Alex Majoli’s Paris Fashion Week series to be a proper visual treat… and not talking about the models here…Stylish edgy frames…

Photo © Alex Majoli
Alex Majoli: 2012 Paris Fashion Week (Magnum) different edit on New York Magazine
Artur Conka: The Roma of Lunik IX (Foto8) Slovakia
Lukasz Trzcinski: New Europe. Atlas (NYT Lens)
Landon Nordeman: Euro Dog 2012 (New Yorker) Romania
Joanna Nottebrock and Insa Cathérine Hagemann: Meet the Undertakers (CNN)

Photo © Michael Chelbin
Michael Chelbin: Sailboats and Swans: The Prisons of Russia and Ukraine (Lightbox)
Platon: A Russia for All Russians (Newsweek)
Yanina Shevchenko: Crossing Over – A Trans-Siberian Railway Journey (Foto8)
Misha Friedman: Tuberculosis in the Former Soviet Union (burn)
Colin Delfosse: Les cadets de Mourmansk (Picture Tank)
Spanish photographer Maysun is a new name to me… Seen plenty of strong Syria work from her recently.

Photo © Maysun
Maysun: Syria’s Civil Conflict (Guardian)
Jerome Sessini: Syria (Le Monde)

Photo © Daniel Etter
Daniel Etter: Daily Life in Syria (Newsweek)
Zac Baillie: Syria (Paris Match)
Manu Brabo: The fragility of life in Syria’s borderlands (NBC News)
Bryan Denton: Syria’s War Edges Closer to Turkey (NYT)
Giulio Piscitelli: Aleppo (Photographer’s website)
Uriel Sinai: A Tattoo To Remember (NYT) Israel
Adam Ferguson: In Postwar Iraq, Neither War Nor Peace (NYT Lens)
Jenna Krajeski: A Long Border: Refugees in Iraq Kurdistan (Pulitzer Center)

Photo © Mathias Depardon
Mathias Depardon: Black Sea Postcards (Foto8)
Davide Monteleone: Red Thistle (Lightbox) Caucasus
Toufic Beyhum: Mecca Pilgrimage: Ka’aba, Crowds and Construction (Wired) Saudi Arabia
Carolyn Drake: A Bird in the Hand (Panos) Cyprus
Laura El-Tantawy: The Veil (VII Magazine)

Pyhäjärvi, Finland (Horse and Barn), 1981 © Pentti Sammallahti
Pentti Sammallahti: Here, Far Away – retrospective (Guardian)
George Steinmetz: Sailing the Dunes (NGM) Photographer George Steinmetz has flown over every extreme desert, guided by the shifting sand.
Julian Germain: Classroom Portraits (Lightbox)
Mark Henley: A Sign of Our Times (Panos)

Photo © Pieter ten Hoopen
Pieter ten Hoopen: Wandering in Japan’s ‘Suicide Forest’ (NYT Lens)
Jason Florio: Fighters of the longest war (CNN) The Karen people of Myanmar have been embattled in a civil war with the country’s central government since 1949. It is considered the world’s longest ongoing war.
John Vink: Cambodia: King Norodom Sihanouk Funeral (Photographer’s website)

Photo © Poulomi Basu
Poulomi Basu: On India’s Border, a Changing of the Guard (NYT Lens)
Vivek Singh: Aftermath of ethnic riots in India (CNN)
Alex Masi: A Toxic Tragegy in Bhopal (CNN)
Albertina d’Urso: Sculpting gods from clay (CNN) For centuries, artisans have been crafting statues of Hindu deities on the banks of the Hooghly River in Kolkata, India.
Massimo Berruti’s Pakistan work, for which he received a $5,000 W. Eugene Smith Fellowship this year…

Photo © Massimo Berruti
Massimo Berruti: Pakistan: Fade Into Dust (burn)
Mauricio Lima: Afghans Wary in Push for Mineral Riches (NYT)
John D. McHugh: The People of Afghanistan (Reportage)
Mikhail Galustov: Afghan Faces (New Yorker)
Beijing-based British photographer Sean Gallagher continues his commitment to covering environmental issues…

Photo © Sean Gallagher
Sean Gallagher: Climate change on the Tibetan Plateau (CNN)
Sean Gallagher: China’s Three Rivers, Asia’s Threatened Headwaters (Pulitzer Center)
Nadav Kander: Yangtze – The Long River (NYT Lens)
Sim Chi Yin: In the Shadow’s of Shanghai’s Skyscrapers (BusinessWeek)
James Whitlow Delano: Growth (Chinafile.com) China
Lucas Schifres: Made in China (NYT Lens)
Eric Michael Johnson: Pedaling Under Shanghai’s Stars (WSJ)
Kim Hong-Ji: South Korea’s ‘baby boxes’ (Guardian)
Matthew Niederhauser: K-Pop Star (New Yorker) South Korea
Bharat Sikka: Bhutan (Lightbox)
Stephen Dupont: Portraits of Papua New Guinea Gangsters (Lightbox)