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(Photo by Maks Levin)

(Photo by Maks Levin)

Photojournalist Maks Levin reported missing near Kyiv

(Maks Levin)

First reported by Ukrіnfоrm news service and later confirmed by the Kyіv Іndependent, Lyseiko reported that the last time Levin got in touch was on March 13. At that time, he was with taking photographs within the combat area in Vyshhorod District.

“Each Ukrainian photographer is dreaming of taking a photo that would stop the war.” – Maks Levin

Maks Levin was born in Kyiv Region in 1981. He has worked as a photojournalist and documentary photographer for many Ukrainian and international publications. Levin’s most documentary projects were connected with the war in Donbas and Ukraine.

Maks Levin – Lens Culture com

Missing from Kyiv frontline and feared abducted – Guarudian

(Yevgenia Belorusets)

(From “Victories of the defeated,” a photo series from eastern Ukraine, by Yevgenia Belorusets.)

Ukraine War Book – Codastory. com

A wartime diary by Yevgenia Belorusets – Artforum

This diary will be updated daily and is copublished with Isolarii press.

This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to fight on and on, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands, promises a lot. It is hope itself.

My father is a translator, he translates German poetry into Russian. Thanks to his translations of Paul Celan, I fell in love with this poet when I was still a student. For years, since the Maidan Revolution, he has published his translations almost exclusively in Ukraine.

He took part in protests back then, I remember calling him from Berlin and finding out that he was standing with the demonstrators at the parliament building. Then I heard an explosion; luckily he wasn’t hurt. Now he is in Kyiv. He feels quite weak after a long cold and cannot go to the shelter. Maybe he doesn’t want to either. Every day I see how he continues to work on his translations. Despite the rocket attacks, despite the danger, or maybe because of it.

Amer. Army nurse 2nd Lieut. Florence Vehmeier walking past GI w. bullet wound in his stomach & rubber tube taped to his lip which drains his stomach through his nose to bucket on the floor in makeshift hospital in Cens Cathedral, during WWII.

WORLD WAR II. The Pacific Campaign. February 1945. The Battle of Iwo Jima (Japanese island). US Marine demolition team blasting out a cave on Hill 382.

Magnum Photos – W. Eugene Smith
(Died: October 15, 1978, Tucson, AZ Smith was 59 years old.)

(Woman bathing her daughter, a victim of mercury poisoning, Minamata, Japan 1971)

It has been called photojournalism’s Pieta. In 1971, Smith and his wife, photographer Aileen Mioko, moved to the
Japanese village of Minamata for three years.
Many regard this as the first photograph to awaken the world to ecological abuse. Page 525 – The Great Life Photographers.

Charlie CHAPLIN. 1952.
Buster KEATON (left) and Charlie CHAPLIN (right) during the shooting of the movie “Limelight”, starring Charlie CHAPLIN, Sidney CHAPLIN, Claire BLOOM and Buster KEATON.

See more photos of Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight set here.

(Nun Waiting for Survivors, Andrea Doria, 1956)

Minamata Homage to W. Eugene Smith
(More photos here)

The Woman Who invented Robert Capa

Google Gerda
Google honors Gerda Taro, a pioneering female war photographer Gerda Taro

Widely considered the first female photojournalist to cover a war, she was also the first to die doing so.

Gerda Taro

(Photo of Robert Capa by Gerta Taro on the right)

(Portrait of John Kiriakou by Andres Serrano)
Torture, Andres Serrano
June 3 – October 8, 2017
Station Museum Alabama

“It’s easy to torture people when you have power over them.” – Andres Serrano

Torture
(Photo by Andres Serrano)

Democracy Now – Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama’s War on Leaks

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Jay Leto interviewed John Kiriakou who was Jay’s High school teacher.

Kiriakou on Snowded at Democracy Now (youtube)

Guardian (April 13, 2017)

Felipe Dana has spent the past three weeks photographing the Mosul offensive. He spoke to us about his experience.

Felipe Dana is from Brazil – (homepage)

In Iraq, hundreds of US troops have been sent to reinforce the assault on Mosul, with many more waiting in the wings

Click and see Children play inside a damaged car amid heavy destruction in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces from Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq.
(Instagram – Felipe Dana)

Felipe Dama won Pulitzer Prise for photo journalism

Photo by Leila Alaoui

Leila’s homepage – see her works.

Leila Alaoui,photographer, born 10 July 1982; died 18 January 2016

Alaoui was in Ouagadougou to work on a photography project for a women’s rights campaign called My Body My Rights for Amnesty International.

The Artist who was killed by jihadists and what she was trying to tell the world.

Family and colleagues pay tribute to a talented young photographer, shot dead by four heavily-armed thugs in an al-Qaeda attack on a popular café in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The Moroccans

See a photo from Lebanon November 2013

Life magazine

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Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971)

See some great photos here Women at Work

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) was a woman of firsts: the first foreign journalist allowed to take pictures of industries in the Soviet Union; the first female photographer hired by Life magazine and its first female war correspondent. In fact, her work graced the first Life cover in November 1936. Bourke-White’s interests ranged far and wide, from photographing the drought victims of the Dust Bowl to chronicling the combat zones of World War II and the violence of the India/Pakistan partition.

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The Guaridan Obit
Bearing witness, losing her life (Lens blogs NYtimes)

French photojournalist Camille Lepage killed in Central African Republic
French president orders immediate despatch of team to ‘shine light on circumstances of assassination’ of 26-year-old

Seeking justice for Camille Lepage

Camille Lepage (Portfolio)

Remembering Camille Lepage (New Yorker – slideshow )

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2nd week of August 2013, South Sudanese professional and amateur models gather to be cast to participate in a catwalk at Festival for Fashion and Peace (FFPA) in Juba, South Sudan. © CamilleLepage_hanslucas.com

See more photos here –We Call it Fashion

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See more photos here – Vanishing Young

One of Anja’s final photos.
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(BBC in pictures)

CBC Canada news

Fujimoto Deliberate tourist, a thrill-seeking photog, dodges Aleppo snipers (Japan times)

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Malcolm Browne’s decision not to intervene and prevent Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation haunted him for many years. He felt that in those seconds he could have saved the monk’s life but he chose to take photographs instead.
Perhaps by doing so and helping to show the world what was happening in Vietnam Malcolm Browne, in his small way, hastened the end of the war thereby saving many other lives at the cost of Thich Quang Duc’s.
Of course, Thich Quang Duc must be given far more credit for changing the world’s perception of the Vietnam War, after all, his was the ultimate sacrifice.
It is said that the only part of Thich Quang Duc’s body that wasn’t burnt was his heart, even after his body was subjected to ritual cremation, and it is kept at the Reserve Bank of Vietnam as a holy relic.(via)

Malcolm Browne (wiki)

Burning Monk Photographer Malcolm Browne Dies + BBC in pictures

Browne chats with David Halberstam of the New York Times (left) (Read more: here.)