Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson get a surfeit of coverage as the founders of Magnum Photos. They're also two of the earliest. Ernst Scheidegger isn't heard or talked about anywhere as much -- yet he's one of the first the agency brought on.
Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson get a surfeit of coverage as the founders of Magnum Photos. They're also two of the earliest. Ernst Scheidegger isn't heard or talked about anywhere as much -- yet he's one of the first the agency brought on.
"All I want is for people to live in peace and dignity," says photographer Rania Matar in an emotional plea to the world. Having grown up in a war-torn country and living through multiple wars and conflicts during her lifetime, she knows first hand the infrastructural and emotional devastation that they result in.
A drone video published by the Ukrainian army shows what it's like to be torpedoed out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile. [Read More]
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, American photographer Gavin Doran visited the country to document the human stories of individuals impacted by the war. [Read More]
DJI says that it will cease sales of its drones to both Russia and Ukraine to prevent them from being used in combat. It is the first Chinese company to point to the ongoing war as a reason to halt sales in Russia. [Read More]
Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, nary a day goes by without the press publishing distressing war images, from slightly upsetting to the downright graphic.
Adobe has announced that it will cease all new sales of its products and services in Russia in response to what it describes as unprovoked, violent attacks on Ukraine. [Read More]
Tamara Abdul Hadi is an independent photographer born to Iraqi parents in the United Arab Emirates and raised in Montreal, Canada. Abdul Hadi's work explores the complexity and idiosyncrasy of minority communities.
Before the fall of the wall in 1989, every village in East Germany had its ballroom. Generations of villagers came to forget every weekend the harshness of everyday life by partying and dancing.
My name is Romain Thiery and I am a professional photographer specializing in abandoned pianos photography in Europe. While searching for abandoned pianos, I was lucky enough to photograph a castle in France which has been abandoned for several years.
My name is Romain Thiery and I am a professional photographer specializing in abandoned pianos photography in Europe. While searching for abandoned pianos, I was lucky enough to photograph a castle in France which has been abandoned for several years.
For some Veterans, the solution for dealing with the past became returning or moving permanently to Vietnam.
For some Veterans, the solution for dealing with the past became returning or moving permanently to Vietnam.
For some Veterans, the solution for dealing with the past became returning or moving permanently to Vietnam.
U. S. -trained Afghans photographed the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. These rare color photos bring the U. S. S. R. ’s “hidden war” to light. A fighter watches a Soviet bombardment hammer an Afghan valley.
This is a story about a camera, a rather special camera. Every camera has a history, so they say. But it is not all that often that one has such a rich and documented history. One that was thought to be lost but has been found again. This is the story of Sean Flynn’s Leica M2.
In October was I lucky to get granted a proper 10-day tourist visa after almost 10 weeks of waiting for the paperwork. I was completely free to walk around the cities on my own. During my visit did I visit Damascus - Aleppo - Homs with the countryside and Tartous and the coast.
Joey L. has released a follow-up documentary to his 2015 film ”Guerrilla Fighters of Kurdistan”, again finding himself embedded with Kurdish guerrilla organisations on the frontlines against ISIS. The new documentary is titled ”Born From Urgency”, and is available online for free.
Israel intelligence officials are reportedly using cameras with facial recognition technology to surveil Palestinians and identify suspected militants. However, while the technology was initially used to search for kidnapped Israelis in Gaza, it is reportedly now being used, to mixed results, to flag members of Hamas. [Read More]
To celebrate the 30th World Press Freedom Day, which falls on May 3rd each year, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has worked with game developers to design an anti-propaganda map for the popular video game, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO). [Read More]
Danish photographer Krass Clement traveled from Scandinavia to capture the Northern Ireland conflict during the darkest time in the country's history. [Read More]
Ukrainians have been sharing moments from the lives that they now lead, huddled up at home or in bomb shelters, showing how drastically it all changed the minute bombs and troops came crashing in.
Before the fall of the wall in 1989, every village in East Germany had its ballroom. Generations of villagers came to forget every weekend the harshness of everyday life by partying and dancing.
Before the fall of the wall in 1989, every village in East Germany had its ballroom. Generations of villagers came to forget every weekend the harshness of everyday life by partying and dancing.
Lebanon once had over 400 kilometers of railway lines, some of which connected Beirut to Damascus in Syria and Haifa, a coastal city in present-day Israel. However, today all of the train stations stand abandoned and the locomotives that once ran the line, lay in decay.
The late US Army combat photographer Spc. Hilda Clayton is being hailed as a hero this week after the Army released photos Clayton captured of the blast that killed her in Afghanistan. The photos were published with the approval of both Clayton’s family and her Army unit.
The longest-running photojournalism competition, Pictures of the Year, recently announced the winners of its 81st contest. While most have been celebrated, the top prize in the "Team Picture Story of the Year" category has been highly controversial, kick-starting a powerful, emotional debate about the nature of photojournalism itself. [Read More]
Cheap kamikaze FPV drones, the kind more typically used by photography and racing enthusiasts, are now one of Ukraine's most valued weapons against the Russian invasion. [Read More]
How does an image become an icon? It is estimated that we now produce more images in two minutes than we did in the entire 19th century. How, then, can one image be so powerful it can symbolize the horror of war and help mobilize anti-war sentiment? [Read More]
Drones have been heavily used in by the Ukrainian defense forces to push back against the Russian invasion. One pilot explains that they have recently had to change their strategy to prevent Russians from tracking their movements with DJI technology. [Read More]
Russian tennis star Andrey Rublev wrote "No War Please" on a live television camera just moments after he won his match and advanced to the final at the Dubai Championships. [Read More]
Tamara Abdul Hadi is an independent photographer born to Iraqi parents in the United Arab Emirates and raised in Montreal, Canada. Abdul Hadi's work explores the complexity and idiosyncrasy of minority communities.
I was born to a Jewish family from Leningrad in 1981. My grandpa on my mother’s side, Arkady [all names changed], died two years before I was born. He was an avid photographer, and a great many pictures you’ll find in this article were taken by him.
Here’s a 1.5-minute video published by NATO about the role of US Army combat cameramen who document soldiers in peace and war, at rest and in combat. “Unique among soldiers, combat cameramen (COMCAM) run into battle with a camera in their hands, and their mission is to capture what happens for the record,” NATO writes. […]
Xiamen is an island of Mainland China, and Kinmen is an island of Taiwan. Xiamen and Kinmen are separated by a distance of only 1,400 meters. Since 1949, Xiamen and Kinmen have been at the forefront of the military and ideological confrontation between mainland China and Taiwan.
As a journalist making a documentary film, I visited Syria for 10 days. I was only allowed in government held areas. I was curious how people still live there after six years of the war.