From Amsterdam on May 7th 2011, Jodi Bieber, a South African World Press prize winning photographer, made an emotional appeal to call attention to the disappearance of her colleague Anton Hammerl, 41. Unfortunately, on Friday May 20th, his family made a ...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]

The journalists Rémi Ochlik of IP3 Press, and Marie Colvin of The Sunday Times, were killed in the line of duty the night of February 22, 2012, in the Baba Amro neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs. Several others were wounded or killed in the attack on the the press center.

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European pressphoto agency (EPA) photographer Lucas Dolega was hit by a teargas grenade on the afternoon of Friday, January 14 2011, where, alongside four other photographers, he was covering the turmoil in the streets of Tunis. “It was 1:30pm when tension soared on Bourguiba avenue” comm...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]

Chris Hondros was killed while on assignment in Libya on April 20th, 2011. He died a few hours after Tim Hetherington. Chris was 41 years old, member of Getty agency and had received the Robert Capa Award in 2006 for his work in Iraq. Chris Hondros (b. March 14, 1970) wa...

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On april 21st 2011, Tim Hetherington was killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros was in a critical condition, but alive. Then just a few hours later, Chris died. Tim Hetherington, born in Liverpool, was 41 years old. He had received the World Press ...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]

I’ve never found it so difficult to write. My dictionaries are useless. I can already hear you saying, “Sweet Blachère.” So instead I made a list of everything I loved about you. My angel, my love: I loved it when you made lists of things you wanted, and you wanted ...

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I first saw his photographs in the early 1980s, but I didn’t meet him until later. It was in Paris, behind the Centre Pompidou, in the gallery above Viviane Esders, which had also exhibited, among others, Luigi Ghirri. I realized what made these medium-format, black-and-whit...

15.02.2013[ read full story ]

Brad Branson photographer and pop iconographer of the 1980's and 1990's, died on December 13, 2012 at the age of 49. As a teen growing up in Los Angeles, Branson learned all aspects of the photography process while working in a Hollywood photo lab picking up valua...

12.02.2013[ read full story ]

Photographers who cover the news are used to doing difficult stories filled with life-and-death struggles, pain and sorrow. But nothing has occurred in recent memory that has been as powerful and as heartbreaking to those reporting from its battlefield as the story of AIDS. No...

06.02.2013[ read full story ]

There is no love, no affectedness, not even sensuality in the work of Daniel Boudinet. This secret young man, as handsome as he was sensitive, always kept feelings at a distance, whether they were good or bad. He threw himself into photography in 1968, the year of rupture. From the first he mistrusted...

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