Recognizing the Next Generation: Peter van Agtmael at the Infinity Awards
Last night, Peter van Agtmael was awarded the prestigious Infinity Award for Young Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography. Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at TIME,...
View ArticleDispatch from Afghanistan: The Eyes of War
Flight medic Sgt. Billy Raines has witnessed more than his share of the grim consequences of war. When asked to estimate the number of troops he has treated – who had limbs blown off in battle during...
View ArticleTop Honors For Yuri Kozyrev At Visa Pour L’Image
In a year where the photojournalism world saw extreme highs—the stories exploding out of Egypt, Syria and the Arab world, the riots in London, the earthquake in Japan– and extreme lows—the loss of...
View ArticleAfghanistan: The Photographs That Moved Them Most
On the tenth anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, TIME asks 40 renowned photographers to reflect on their harrowing experiences covering the conflict—and to describe which of their own...
View ArticleA New Way to Photograph War: Condition ONE Launches Today
UPDATE, November 11, 2011: Condition ONE is now available for download in the iTunes app store. Early last month I had the opportunity to test drive the app, which includes three short videos by...
View ArticleDavid Douglas Duncan: A LIFE Magazine War Photographer Looks Back
In December 1950, five months into the Korean War, Chinese forces drove American troops into retreat near the reservoir in Changjin. “It was 40 degrees below zero, and the wind was coming down out of...
View ArticleSoldier Down: The Portraits of Suzanne Opton
It’s difficult to make a new kind of portrait of a soldier in an age when they have been depicted in such iconic manner in the media. But in her new book Soldier/Many Wars (Decode, 2011), artist...
View ArticleTwo Takes: One Picture, Two Photographers
The romantic notion is that photojournalists bear unique witness to the events of the world as they unfold around them. In reality, due to circumstance, comfort and organizational requirements,...
View ArticleInside Syria: Photographs by Rodrigo Abd
AP cameraman Ahmed Bahaddou and I sneaked into Syria from Turkey, traveling with the rebels’ Free Syrian Army. Our aim was to understand and cover the conflict in the country’s northwest region, as...
View ArticleWorld War II Through Soviet Jewish Eyes
In 2003, a young American historian named David Shneer was conducting research in Moscow when he heard about an exhibition of photographs called Women at War. At the time, displaying photography on...
View ArticleRevisiting Memory and Preserving Legacy: Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros
Nearly two years ago, photographers Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed in Misrata, Libya. Tim had just taken a photo of a helmet punctured by a bullet hole when the mortar blast took him....
View ArticleWitness to a Syrian Execution: “I Saw a Scene of Utter Cruelty”
All wars are vicious, but the civil war in Syria seems every day to set new standards for brutality. As the fighting rages in its third year, increasing numbers of atrocities are committed by soldiers...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash: ‘Unreal’ Scenes from Photographer Jerome...
Warning: Graphic images and details can be found in the photographs above and in the text below. Late Thursday afternoon, a field of sunflowers in the village of Torez in eastern Ukraine was...
View Article1914 – 1918: The War Years in Photographs
Welcome to TIME LightBox’s curators series, which invites top photography curators from around the world to present and discuss photography of their choosing in an effort to learn more about their...
View ArticlePhotojournalism Daily: Nov. 12, 2014
Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd’s work documenting the legacy of Peru’s “dirty war.” Thousands went missing during the conflict,...
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