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Faces of Deportation The New York Time Lens Blog is carrying “Detained, Deported and Determined,” a photo essay by Getty photographer John Moore. In an accompanying article, Moore writes: During President Obama’s first term of office, authorities deported a record 1.5 million people. A majority fell into several categories — those who had recently crossed United States borders illegally, repeat violators of immigration laws and those with a criminal record, according to the White House. I have photographed this stark ritual often in the last few years. But in the United States, law enforcement restrictions that photojournalists not show the faces of immigrants in their custody has made it hard, at times, to humanize the images. So, on this last trip to Arizona, the challenge for me was to find deported — or soon-to-be-deported — immigrants not in federal custody. Moore did so by going to the San Juan Bosco shelter in Nogales, Mexico and to Maricopa County in Arizona. Image: Gilbert Mendez, 28, arrested for driving without a license and deported. Mendez claims he worked for five years as a farm laborer in Washington State and plans to try to get back into the United States. By John Moore via The New York Times.

Faces of Deportation

The New York Time Lens Blog is carrying “Detained, Deported and Determined,” a photo essay by Getty photographer John Moore.

In an accompanying article, Moore writes:

During President Obama’s first term of office, authorities deported a record 1.5 million people. A majority fell into several categories — those who had recently crossed United States borders illegally, repeat violators of immigration laws and those with a criminal record, according to the White House.

I have photographed this stark ritual often in the last few years. But in the United States, law enforcement restrictions that photojournalists not show the faces of immigrants in their custody has made it hard, at times, to humanize the images.

So, on this last trip to Arizona, the challenge for me was to find deported — or soon-to-be-deported — immigrants not in federal custody.

Moore did so by going to the San Juan Bosco shelter in Nogales, Mexico and to Maricopa County in Arizona.

Image: Gilbert Mendez, 28, arrested for driving without a license and deported. Mendez claims he worked for five years as a farm laborer in Washington State and plans to try to get back into the United States. By John Moore via The New York Times.

Giles Duley Interview ifilikeityoulikeit: *Very interesting interview “Giles Duley has been getting a lot of attention recently as the photographer who lost both his legs and an arm after stepping on a landmine in Kabul while documenting American troops in Afghanistan. Giles has been reluctant to speak about himself and his accident, but it’s the work that he’s been compiling for ten years that I really wanted to talk to him about.” Read more FJP: Definitely read more.

Giles Duley Interview

ifilikeityoulikeit:

*Very interesting interview

“Giles Duley has been getting a lot of attention recently as the photographer who lost both his legs and an arm after stepping on a landmine in Kabul while documenting American troops in Afghanistan. Giles has been reluctant to speak about himself and his accident, but it’s the work that he’s been compiling for ten years that I really wanted to talk to him about.”

Read more

FJP: Definitely read more.

Clouds Via ReadWrite: An asperatus cloud in New Zealand. Proposed in 2009, this cloud classification, if successfully added, will be the first formation since cirrus intortus in 1951 to join the International Cloud Atlas.

Clouds

Via ReadWrite: An asperatus cloud in New Zealand. Proposed in 2009, this cloud classification, if successfully added, will be the first formation since cirrus intortus in 1951 to join the International Cloud Atlas.

Aleppo Via the Times of Israel: This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows people searching through the debris of destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government forces, in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center) The Aleppo Media Center (English) is on Facebook.

Aleppo

Via the Times of Israel: This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows people searching through the debris of destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government forces, in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center)

The Aleppo Media Center (English) is on Facebook.

World Press Photo of the Year 2012 contest winners newsflick: Paul Hansen of Sweden, a photographer working for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2012 with this picture of a group of men carrying the bodies of two dead children through a street in Gaza City taken on November 20, 2012. Jury member Mayu Mohanna said about the photo: The strength of the picture lies in the way it contrasts the anger and sorrow of the adults with the innocence of the children. It’s a picture I will not forget. Picture: REUTERS/Paul Hansen/Dagens Nyheter/World Press Photo

World Press Photo of the Year 2012 contest winners

newsflick:

Paul Hansen of Sweden, a photographer working for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2012 with this picture of a group of men carrying the bodies of two dead children through a street in Gaza City taken on November 20, 2012. Jury member Mayu Mohanna said about the photo: The strength of the picture lies in the way it contrasts the anger and sorrow of the adults with the innocence of the children. It’s a picture I will not forget.

Picture: REUTERS/Paul Hansen/Dagens Nyheter/World Press Photo

Athletes Recreating Iconic Album Covers

As ESPN The Magazine’s music issue hits the stands they’ve recreated old album covers with current day athletes.

Here we have:

Click through for slideshows of each photo shoot. Select to embiggen.

pulitzerfieldnotes: “A portable photo studio on a shoestring in Sambo Creek, Honduras.” — Image by David Rochkind via Instagram (@drochkind). Honduras, 2013. Pulitzer Center grantees David Rochkind and Jens Erik Gould are in the field reporting on the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people in Honduras with a unique language and culture, who are fighting the highest rate of HIV in the western hemisphere. See more of their field notes here and a Storify of their social media posts here. FJP: And that’s how you do it.

pulitzerfieldnotes:

“A portable photo studio on a shoestring in Sambo Creek, Honduras.” — Image by David Rochkind via Instagram (@drochkind). Honduras, 2013.

Pulitzer Center grantees David Rochkind and Jens Erik Gould are in the field reporting on the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people in Honduras with a unique language and culture, who are fighting the highest rate of HIV in the western hemisphere. See more of their field notes here and a Storify of their social media posts here.

FJP: And that’s how you do it.

Your Omnidirectional Camera

It’s a prototype but it’s nerd alert cool. Shoot with the camera and it sends the image over wifi to your phone where you can pinch, pan, twirl and explore. 

The developers are waiting to see if there’s interest in it before trying to release it publicly. 

I smell a very successful Kickstarter. — Michael

Everyday Africa Takes over The New Yorker’s Instagram Feed Via The New Yorker: This week, the photo collective Everyday Africa, a project focussing on images of daily life in Africa, will be posting to The New Yorker’s Instagram feed. Nine photographers across the continent, from Mali to Kenya, are contributing. Here’s The New Yorker on Instagram. And here’s Everyday Africa on Tumblr. Image: A motorcycle taxi driver uses his feet to steer in Bamako, Mali on January 29, by Glenna Gordon

Everyday Africa Takes over The New Yorker’s Instagram Feed

Via The New Yorker:

This week, the photo collective Everyday Africa, a project focussing on images of daily life in Africa, will be posting to The New Yorker’s Instagram feed. Nine photographers across the continent, from Mali to Kenya, are contributing.

Here’s The New Yorker on Instagram.

And here’s Everyday Africa on Tumblr.

Image: A motorcycle taxi driver uses his feet to steer in Bamako, Mali on January 29, by Glenna Gordon

Castro, Batman, and Superheroes Throughout History From Slate: Harahap’s Photoshopped “Superhistory” presents the past as if it were a comic book, seamlessly integrating pop culture icons into the photographs that build our collective memory.

Castro, Batman, and Superheroes Throughout History

From Slate:

Harahap’s Photoshopped “Superhistory” presents the past as if it were a comic book, seamlessly integrating pop culture icons into the photographs that build our collective memory.

Behind the Polaroid

A (relatively) new book by Christopher Bonanos explores the life and inventions of Polaroid founder Edwin Land.

On the companion site to the book, Bonanos, an editor at New York Magazine, writes:

Instant: The Story of Polaroid is a book about a very unusual company. In the 1960s and 1970s, Polaroid was what Apple is today: the coolest technology company on earth, the one with irresistible products, the one whose stock kept climbing way past the point of logic. In its heyday, Polaroid was an absolute innovation machine—a scientific think tank that periodically kicked out a fantastically profitable, covetable product. In fact, the late Steve Jobs expressly said that he modeled his company to a great extent after Polaroid.

Visit the site for Bonanos’ blog about all things Polaroid past and present. The book is available here. 

Garrett McNamara Road a Large Wave Yesterday Surfer Today is speculating that it’s a hundred foot wave. Photograph by Tó Mané.

Garrett McNamara Road a Large Wave Yesterday

Surfer Today is speculating that it’s a hundred foot wave.

Photograph by Tó Mané.

I sat there in a moment of devastation with my hands in prayer pose asking for peace and healing in the hearts of men. I was having such a strong moment and my heart was open, and I started to cry…

…[A]ll of a sudden I hear ‘clickclickclickclickclick’ all over the place. And there are people in the bushes, all around me, and they are photographing me, and now I’m pissed. I felt like a zoo animal…

…[N]o one came up to me and said ‘Hi, I’m from this paper and I took your photograph.’ No one introduced themselves. I felt violated. And yes, it was a lovely photograph, but there is a sense of privacy in a moment like that, and they didn’t ask.

Aline Marie to NPR after a photo of her was used to illustrate an NPR story on the Newtown, CT shootings. What It Feels Like To Be Photographed In A Moment Of Grief.

Marie tells NPR that she thinks photographers should make themselves known to their subjects, calling it an issue of respect.

Emmanuel Dunand, the AFP photographer who took the picture, says due to the rawness of the situation he was trying to be discreet, according to NPR.

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Monkey Cam

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