His self-published books put him on the fringe. But his 3 new books coming out this semester by Mörel Books, Post and Dienacht Publishing—and another in the works with Steidl—put him in the mainstream. His photographs, presented by the East Wing gallery, were selected by Dav...

13.09.2012[ read full story ]

I met Kingsley in Cameroon while preparing a story on illegal immigration. A young man of 22, he had already given it a try two years before, but gave up for lack of funding. Kingsley is ready to try again. He left his country in May 2004 to travel—illegally—across the Sahara from N...

09.09.2012[ read full story ]

New York, Tuesday, September 11. Two planes had just hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Photographer Bill Biggart, equipped with three cameras including one digital, left his Manhattan apartment and headed to the smoking southern tip of the city. He never returned, buried ...

09.09.2012[ read full story ]

I had never been to Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, before the fall of 1991. For days and days, the city and its ramparts were under siege by the Yugoslav People’s Army and paramilitary forces. Bombs were falling all over the region. Very few photographers ...

08.09.2012[ read full story ]

1976. I’m 20 years old and hitchhiking following a girl in Lebanon. A Christian family involved in the conflict is putting me up. I find myself in the middle of a war without a clue. I meet journalists and photographers. I want to do what they do. And soon I hand in my very first repo...

08.09.2012[ read full story ]

Starting with the election of John Paul II to the papacy, history in Poland picked up speed. When strikes began in the Gdansk shipyards, being Polish, I suggested to Göksin a picture of the movement’s leader. I went to Lech Walesa’s home in the Stogi neighborhood. When his wife Danut...

07.09.2012[ read full story ]

Istanbul-Yesilköy Airport. I had got in from Iran the night before and was waiting for the 5 o’clock flight for Ankara. After covering the Iranian side of the conflict, Göksin wanted me to do the same in Iraq. But first I needed a visa. Airport lounge. Osman Arolat from Swedish radio ...

07.09.2012[ read full story ]

I had joined Sipa the year before. I photographed stars and royalty, like Caroline and Stephanie of Monaco, at a time when photographers talked to the people they followed as equals. On that day, in an alley off the Avenue Foch in Paris, my colleagues and I were waiting for Christin...

06.09.2012[ read full story ]

I’m 26 years old when I leave New York, my boyfriend and my job as a photo editor, to cover the war of liberation in Rhodesia. Why? I love Africa, I want to be a photojournalist, and the conflict interests me. My mother is Indian-America, so I feel like the ‘Negro question’ concerns ...

06.09.2012[ read full story ]

t’s the spring of 1977, a few years ago now, and I’m covering legends of pop music like the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Bob Marley. This time I know the Jackson Five are in Paris. The product of their father’s ambition, they left the CBS label in 1969 to sign with Motown. They’r...

05.09.2012[ read full story ]