Just a Moment

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Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth
plants something in his soul.
- Thomas Merton

Jodhpur, India

This moment is your life
- Omar Khayyam

India

Know the true value of time;
snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
- Lord Chesterfield

Monk at Jokhang Temple, Tibet

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks,

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St Louis

Fotografia: St Louis, Senegal – João Martins Pereira

Grief, Grind, and Glory of Work

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Last month the world heard the tragic news
that more than a thousand people working at a clothing factory in Bangladesh,
were killed when the factory they were working in collapsed.

Burma

The appetite for cheap clothing in the West is insatiable.
The people making the clothing  often pay the true cost of these items.
The scale of this factory in Burma is vast.

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Lucy Nicholson

Lucy Nicholson, jornalista da Reuters com um trabalho multifacetado nas áreas da reportagem escrita, fotografia, produção de video.

Na área da fotografia, são reconhecidas e publicadas as suas imagens de desporto (belíssimas séries sobre os Jogos Olímpicos, NBA e NHL), documentário e teatros de conflito.

É precisamente deste último tema que escolhi algumas imagens do Afeganistão e de Gaza.

Evgenia Arbugaeva

Evgenia Arbugaeva é uma fotógrafa russa com projectos muito interessantes, muito baseados na vida da sua Sibéria natal.

O projecto Tiksi, a cidade onde nasceu, deu-lhe reconhecimento e a oportunidade de expor em várias cidades do mundo.

Contudo, e na minha opinião, um dos mais interessantes é o projecto “Following the Reindeer“, que a própria descreve assim:

This project is about nomadic tribes of reindeer herders in my homeland, the Republic of Yakutia, which is located in eastern Siberia.

There are five nationalities of reindeer herders that live on the territory of the Republic: Even, Evenk, Yukagir, Chukchi and Dolgan. All of them are smaller populations, for instance the total number of Yukagir in the world at this moment is only 1509 people.

During the period of one year I traveled with reindeer herders in different parts of Yakutia. I witnessed a unique culture that almost has not changed for centuries.

In the age of urbanization and technological progress these people have maintained an ability to live in complete harmony with nature and each other.

Evgenia was born in Siberian town Tiksi in Russia.
She received BA degree in art management from International University in Moscow. In 2009 graduated from International Center of Photography Photojournalism and Documentary Program.
She now works as a freelance photographer between Russia and New York.

Clics

“A good image is created by a state of grace. Grace expresses itself when it has been freed from conventions, free like a child in his early discovery of the reality.

The game is then to organize the rectangle. ”

Sergio Larrain

Lynn Johnson

Lynn Johnson, uma fotógrafa extraordinária, com intervenção em várias disciplinas e registos fotográficos, do trabalho comissionado – National Geographic, por exemplo – à fotoreportagem e ao retrato de estúdio.

Contudo, é no elemento humano, no registo das glórias e misérias da vida que o seu talento se impõe, dando-nos uma fotografia crua, afiada e, ao mesmo tempo, emocionada e emocionante.

Lynn, por ela própria:

“As photographers, we witness — unfiltered — the lives of those willing to share their stories, hoping to impact a world they may never visit and strangers who can only imagine their struggles. If there is one constant lesson, it is that we are all connected.”

Photojournalist Lynn Johnson is known for her intense, sensitive work.

Dividing her time between assignments for National Geographic and various foundations, Johnson has traveled from Siberia to Zambia and photographed celebrities including Tiger Woods, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mister Rogers and the entire Supreme Court. With her Leicas, she has climbed the radio antenna atop Chicago’s Hancock Tower and dangled from helicopters in Antarctica. Yet her favorite assignments have been emotionally demanding stories about ordinary people; a family struggling with AIDS (Life), the death of an African-American coach in Amish country (Sports Illustrated), native Hawaiians who protect traditional ways (NG), the impact of zoonotic diseases around the world (NG).

Her vision is subtle. She invites the viewer to find the meaning in the frame. Her shooting style is equally low key allowing her subjects to reveal themselves to the camera. The photographs she strives for are compassionate. After 30 years of practicing photography, she sees her personal work moving from that of an observer to advocate.

As a Knight Fellow in the School of Visual Communications at Ohio University, Johnson completed a rigorous program that included her Masters thesis, an exhibit about the impact of hate crimes on American society, Hate Kills. Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of her fellowship was the teaching component that allowed her to share her passion and commitment with other students in the Visual Studies Program, helping to develop the talents and ethics of a new generation of photographers.

Johnson first earned a B.A. in Photographic Illustration and Photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975. After graduating, she was a Staff Photographer at The Pittsburgh Press for seven years before beginning her freelance career as a contract photographer for Black Star then Aurora Photos. She is currently represented by the National Geographic Image Collection.