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Relying on freelance journalism in Afghanistan’s “Land of Secrets” Tired of seeing interest and quality reporting leave Afghanistan with the war, a new outlet called razistan.org has set out to help freelance photo/videographers in Kabul  cover the country’s less documented people and events. via its Tumblr: Razistan.org aims to help give Afghanistan the attention it demands. Our core project is a website of unique photo essays and short video documentaries that bring into vivid relief not only the war and its participants but also the country and its people. Contributors include both award-winning Kabul-based photojournalists from around the world and local Afghan photographers and videographers. There is much more to the war than the mainstream media has shown. The purpose of Razistan — or “land of secrets” — is to reveal these untold stories.  See their Kickstarter, as well as this post from yesterday, which laments what mainstream war reporting has become. Photo: Lorenzo Tugnoli.

Relying on freelance journalism in Afghanistan’s “Land of Secrets”

Tired of seeing interest and quality reporting leave Afghanistan with the war, a new outlet called razistan.org has set out to help freelance photo/videographers in Kabul  cover the country’s less documented people and events.

via its Tumblr:

Razistan.org aims to help give Afghanistan the attention it demands. Our core project is a website of unique photo essays and short video documentaries that bring into vivid relief not only the war and its participants but also the country and its people. Contributors include both award-winning Kabul-based photojournalists from around the world and local Afghan photographers and videographers. There is much more to the war than the mainstream media has shown. The purpose of Razistan — or “land of secrets” — is to reveal these untold stories. 

See their Kickstarter, as well as this post from yesterday, which laments what mainstream war reporting has become.

Photo: Lorenzo Tugnoli.

Today, in Throwback Sports Photography Shawn Kemp dunks, 1991, via Sports Illustrated. Kemp recently appeared onstage with Seattle sportswriter Steve Kelley to perform a scene from Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in support of the Seattle Shakespeare Company. 

Today, in Throwback Sports Photography

Shawn Kemp dunks, 1991, via Sports Illustrated.

Kemp recently appeared onstage with Seattle sportswriter Steve Kelley to perform a scene from Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in support of the Seattle Shakespeare Company. 

I am a supposed-to-be-Muslim-post-Soviet-westernized-eastern female atheist.

Rena Effendi, photographer, to the New Yorker. The Photographer and the Islamist.

Effendi discusses her cultural anxiety when sent by the New Yorker to photograph Ahmed Khalil Khairallah, an Egyptian politician and hardline Islamist, for a profile in the magazine.

Despite her nerves, she eventually got her shot.

Face Off: Boy vs Russian Police Via the NY Daily News: The New Yorker and Foreign Policy magazine correspondent Julia Ioffe snapped the photo with her iPhone during violent protests by anti-Putin demonstrators on the day before Putin’s inauguration, ABC News reports. She tweeted the photo to her more-than-6,000 followers with a reference to Tiananmen Square. Ioffe was referencing the huge pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square, China in 1989, iconized by a photograph of one man standing still in front of a row of tanks. At least 20,000 people rallied Sunday at Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square in protest of Putin’s election. Violence erupted as the protesters marched toward the Kremlin and police fought back with clubs, injuring several people and leading to more than 400 arrests, reports the Associated Press.

Face Off: Boy vs Russian Police

Via the NY Daily News:

The New Yorker and Foreign Policy magazine correspondent Julia Ioffe snapped the photo with her iPhone during violent protests by anti-Putin demonstrators on the day before Putin’s inauguration, ABC News reports. She tweeted the photo to her more-than-6,000 followers with a reference to Tiananmen Square.

Ioffe was referencing the huge pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square, China in 1989, iconized by a photograph of one man standing still in front of a row of tanks.

At least 20,000 people rallied Sunday at Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square in protest of Putin’s election.

Violence erupted as the protesters marched toward the Kremlin and police fought back with clubs, injuring several people and leading to more than 400 arrests, reports the Associated Press.

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The Price of Sex (Trailer):

The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, it is a story told by the young women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal investigative journey, exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives. Learn more at www.priceofsex.org .

FJP: The Price of Sex was written, directed and produced by Mimi Chakarova, won the 2011 Nestor Almendros Award for Courage in Filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and the 2011 Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.

If you’re in DC there’s a screening of the film this evening.

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More Journalists Murdered In Mexico Via the Los Angeles Times: MEXICO CITY — Two missing news photographers were found dead Thursday in southeastern Mexico, officials said, marking a grim week for journalists in the violence-plagued state of Veracruz after the weekend killing of a Mexican magazine correspondent. The photographers, identified as Gabriel Huge and Guillermo Luna, were found dismembered and bearing signs of torture in a housing complex in Boca del Rio, a suburb of the port city of Veracruz. Two other bodies found in the same place have not been identified, state spokeswoman Sandra Garcia said. But some Mexican news reports said one of the other victims was a journalist who worked for a newspaper called Diario AZ… …The deaths come less than a week after correspondent Regina Martinez was found strangled and beaten to death in Xalapa, the state capital, where she lived and covered organized crime and corruption for  the Proceso newsweekly magazine.

More Journalists Murdered In Mexico

Via the Los Angeles Times:

MEXICO CITY — Two missing news photographers were found dead Thursday in southeastern Mexico, officials said, marking a grim week for journalists in the violence-plagued state of Veracruz after the weekend killing of a Mexican magazine correspondent.

The photographers, identified as Gabriel Huge and Guillermo Luna, were found dismembered and bearing signs of torture in a housing complex in Boca del Rio, a suburb of the port city of Veracruz.

Two other bodies found in the same place have not been identified, state spokeswoman Sandra Garcia said. But some Mexican news reports said one of the other victims was a journalist who worked for a newspaper called Diario AZ…

…The deaths come less than a week after correspondent Regina Martinez was found strangled and beaten to death in Xalapa, the state capital, where she lived and covered organized crime and corruption for  the Proceso newsweekly magazine.

Young Women in Chechnya Via Boston.com: Photojournalist Diana Markosian spent the last year and half covering Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region. This year she started a personal project entitled “Goodbye My Chechnya” documenting the lives of young Chechen women as they come of age in the aftermath of war. She writes, “For young women in Chechnya the most innocent acts could mean breaking the law. A Chechen girl caught smoking is cause for arrest; while rumors of a couple engaging in pre-martial relations can result in her killing. The few girls who dare to rebel become targets in the eyes of Chechen authorities. After nearly two decades of vicious war and 70 years of Soviet rule, during which religious participation was banned, modern-day Chechnya is going through Islamic revival. The Chechen government is building mosques in every village, prayer rooms in public schools, and enforcing a stricter Islamic dress code for both men and women. This photo essay chronicles the lives of young Muslim girls who witnessed the horrors of two wars and are now coming of age in a republic that is rapidly redefining itself as a Muslim state.” Image: Kazbek Mutsaev, 29, fires celebratory gun shots as part of an age-old wedding tradition in Chechnya, by Diana Markosian. Via Boston.com, Young Women in Chechnya.

Young Women in Chechnya

Via Boston.com:

Photojournalist Diana Markosian spent the last year and half covering Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region. This year she started a personal project entitled “Goodbye My Chechnya” documenting the lives of young Chechen women as they come of age in the aftermath of war. She writes, “For young women in Chechnya the most innocent acts could mean breaking the law. A Chechen girl caught smoking is cause for arrest; while rumors of a couple engaging in pre-martial relations can result in her killing. The few girls who dare to rebel become targets in the eyes of Chechen authorities. After nearly two decades of vicious war and 70 years of Soviet rule, during which religious participation was banned, modern-day Chechnya is going through Islamic revival. The Chechen government is building mosques in every village, prayer rooms in public schools, and enforcing a stricter Islamic dress code for both men and women. This photo essay chronicles the lives of young Muslim girls who witnessed the horrors of two wars and are now coming of age in a republic that is rapidly redefining itself as a Muslim state.”

Image: Kazbek Mutsaev, 29, fires celebratory gun shots as part of an age-old wedding tradition in Chechnya, by Diana Markosian. Via Boston.com, Young Women in Chechnya.

Naughty Banks Need a Spanking Occupy/May Day images from the LA Times, BBC, CNN and Reuters. Image: A protestor in New York City, via AFP/BBC.

Naughty Banks Need a Spanking

Occupy/May Day images from the LA Times, BBC, CNN and Reuters.

Image: A protestor in New York City, via AFP/BBC.

WikiLeaks: Top Secret Mobile Information Collection Unit Last night’s FJP field trip brought us to the Whitney Museum in New York City to hear a talk organized by the documentarian Laura Poitras about the national security state in the United States. The speakers were Jacob Appelbaum and William Binney. Binney is the former technical director of the National Security Agency’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. He retired in 2001 when the NSA started to turn its surveillance capabilities on US citizens. Applebaum is a noted privacy rights evangelist, and is most visible as a spokesperson for the Tor Project, a software solution to protect individuals from online surveillance, and for his work with Wikileaks. All have been targeted by the US government for their activities. Earlier in the day, Democracy Now interviewed each about their work and the national security state. The segment with Binney is here, the segment with Applebaum is here and the segment with Poitras is here. Bonus: James Bamford’s March cover story for Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say). Image: A WikiLeaks truck parked outside the Whitney Museum in New York City.

WikiLeaks: Top Secret Mobile Information Collection Unit

Last night’s FJP field trip brought us to the Whitney Museum in New York City to hear a talk organized by the documentarian Laura Poitras about the national security state in the United States.

The speakers were Jacob Appelbaum and William Binney.

Binney is the former technical director of the National Security Agency’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. He retired in 2001 when the NSA started to turn its surveillance capabilities on US citizens.

Applebaum is a noted privacy rights evangelist, and is most visible as a spokesperson for the Tor Project, a software solution to protect individuals from online surveillance, and for his work with Wikileaks.

All have been targeted by the US government for their activities.

Earlier in the day, Democracy Now interviewed each about their work and the national security state. The segment with Binney is here, the segment with Applebaum is here and the segment with Poitras is here.

Bonus: James Bamford’s March cover story for Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say).

Image: A WikiLeaks truck parked outside the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Blogging with Sherpas: iPad apps in the Himalayas National Geographic has long been known for sponsoring “expeditions” and those sorts of wild, dangerous pastimes that only seem to exist in books anymore, or at least so far away from us normal people that we hardly believe they still go on. But they do, and here’s proof: Maggie, it’s Mark Jenkins calling from Camp One. A couple of team members are getting back down to Base Camp. Some of them are up at Camp Two. But make sure your message machine can hold about a 10-minute or 20-minute message ’cause that’s what I’m gonna give you tomorrow sometime. For a blog about what it feels like to go through the Khumbu Icefall, which is one of the most dangerous aspects of climbing Everest on this side, the South Col. All’s well. All right, good luck Maggie, things are good here. Bye-bye. Last week, a large team of mountaineers began to climb Mount Everest, and they took their computers with them. They’ll follow a historic climbing route, first taken about 49 years ago, but they’ll blog everyday they’re up there. Chief posters among them, it seems, are writer Mark Jenkins and photographer Cory Richards. Richards has blogged in on top of mountains before. Download the iPad app here if you’re interested, because the website is very good at teasing us computer-only folks.

Blogging with Sherpas: iPad apps in the Himalayas

National Geographic has long been known for sponsoring “expeditions” and those sorts of wild, dangerous pastimes that only seem to exist in books anymore, or at least so far away from us normal people that we hardly believe they still go on. But they do, and here’s proof:

Maggie, it’s Mark Jenkins calling from Camp One. A couple of team members are getting back down to Base Camp. Some of them are up at Camp Two.

But make sure your message machine can hold about a 10-minute or 20-minute message ’cause that’s what I’m gonna give you tomorrow sometime. For a blog about what it feels like to go through the Khumbu Icefall, which is one of the most dangerous aspects of climbing Everest on this side, the South Col. All’s well. All right, good luck Maggie, things are good here. Bye-bye.

Last week, a large team of mountaineers began to climb Mount Everest, and they took their computers with them. They’ll follow a historic climbing route, first taken about 49 years ago, but they’ll blog everyday they’re up there. Chief posters among them, it seems, are writer Mark Jenkins and photographer Cory Richards.

Richards has blogged in on top of mountains before.

Download the iPad app here if you’re interested, because the website is very good at teasing us computer-only folks.

Years later, when I put together a book about those events in Liberia, I included a photograph of one of the people who had been killed outside of the beer factory. I thought it was an important picture but didn’t dwell on what it might mean for the mother of that boy to come across it printed in a book. My thoughts about this resurfaced recently as I put together a new book about a group of American soldiers I spent a lot of time with in Afghanistan. They reminded me a lot of the young Liberian rebel fighters, and yet, when I came to selecting a picture of one of their dead in the battlefield, I hesitated and wondered if printing a graphic image was appropriate. It was an image I had made of a young man shot in the head after the American lines had been overrun—not dissimilar from the one in Liberia. My hesitation troubled me. Was I sensitive this time because the soldier wasn’t a nameless African? Perhaps I had changed and realized that there should be limits on what is released into the public? I certainly wouldn’t have been in that questioning position if I’d never taken the photograph in the first place… but I did, and perhaps these things are worth thinking about and confronting after all.

Tim Hetherington, from a chapter in Photographs Not Taken, a new book of essays by more than 60 photographers about times when they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, take a picture. Hetherington died from wounds suffered while covering the Libyan civil war in 2011. Via Time Lightbox.

If you’re in New York City there’s a panel discussion with the book’s editor and a few of its contributors at PS1 Sunday April 22 from 2-4pm.

An epilogue to the Space Shuttle program, in pictures The Space Shuttle Discovery took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning (bolted somewhat dramatically on top of a 747)  en route to its final home — the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia. Click the picture above for a small slideshow, provided by the Guardian. Picture originally taken by Jonathan Ernst, Reuters.

An epilogue to the Space Shuttle program, in pictures

The Space Shuttle Discovery took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning (bolted somewhat dramatically on top of a 747)  en route to its final home — the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia. Click the picture above for a small slideshow, provided by the Guardian.

Picture originally taken by Jonathan Ernst, Reuters.

Massoud Hossaini won the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for this photograph that appeared in newspapers around the world last December. The image is from the aftermath of a suicide attack at shrine in Kabul attended by Shiites taking part in a religious ceremony. Via the New York Times Lens Blog, which spoke to Hossaini in December after publishing the photo: “Women were asking me, ‘Help, help, help,’” Mr. Hossaini said. “I couldn’t. I was recording and I was taking pictures.” One of the women who was holding a baby, called out for help — her other child had died. Another man lifted the child from the ground. But blood was pouring from its head. The man placed the child back on the ground and walked away. As Mr. Hossaini photographed, he realized he was weeping. When he looked down, he realized how badly his own hand was bleeding. He wrapped it with the cleanest piece of material he could find. Hossaini works for Agence France-Presse. It is the organization’s first Pulitzer.

Massoud Hossaini won the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for this photograph that appeared in newspapers around the world last December.

The image is from the aftermath of a suicide attack at shrine in Kabul attended by Shiites taking part in a religious ceremony.

Via the New York Times Lens Blog, which spoke to Hossaini in December after publishing the photo:

“Women were asking me, ‘Help, help, help,’” Mr. Hossaini said. “I couldn’t. I was recording and I was taking pictures.” One of the women who was holding a baby, called out for help — her other child had died. Another man lifted the child from the ground. But blood was pouring from its head. The man placed the child back on the ground and walked away.

As Mr. Hossaini photographed, he realized he was weeping. When he looked down, he realized how badly his own hand was bleeding. He wrapped it with the cleanest piece of material he could find.

Hossaini works for Agence France-Presse. It is the organization’s first Pulitzer.