The death of Steve Jobs on October 5 became the big media story of the week. News magazines, business magazines, music magazines, and celebrity magazines all rushed to get him on their covers, and the sight of his face splayed across newsstand shelves indicated the breadth of h...

14.10.2011[ read full story ]

This week brought scenes of social unrest provoked by the international financial crisis. In the United States, protestors occupied New York City’s financial district in what had been, until recently, a relatively peaceful movement. The city also saw a new kind of street demons...

07.10.2011[ read full story ]

Many of the pictures presented in this and previous press reviews come from the British daily The Guardian. It is undeniably true, there is nothing I can do about it, except my tendency to recognize that this newspaper has a truly visual style, that the pictures offered seem to be the result...

07.10.2011[ read full story ]

Most often, the events make a photograph famous. Because that event is, in itself, something remarkable, the photographs depicting it become memorable. Rare and few are the famous images that come from lesser or unknown events. But what about those images that have become so iconic that they ...

04.10.2011[ read full story ]

This week, its seems that the photographic tempo is still in limbo. Events are happening, situations are expanding, meetings are being held to announce a darker future, a vile legal assassination was conducted in Georgia (USA), very discretely, many photographs are featured in an almost furtive way....

30.09.2011[ read full story ]

It was a week of drama and desperation, like most weeks, as reflected in the images we saw in print and online this week. We start the photo review with a harrowing escape from an earthquake in India, then travel through street battles in the West Bank and Yemen. We witness an explosive scene in Afgha...

30.09.2011[ read full story ]

No other instances of truth should be needed than a perfect image. As Plato myth of the cavern implies, the closest we can ever come to the truth is via its light and shadows. That is exactly what a camera captures.

19.09.2011[ read full story ]

The weekly review of photos in the U.S. media is back after a New York summer that included earthquakes and hurricanes. For this edition, we look at a number of other late-summer events from around the world—a summer of fighting, famine, and flooding for some—as well as a few w...

08.09.2011[ read full story ]

It’s a Fall season that I find a bit sad. Events to say the least that are important, and a photographic treatment from the papers that hasn’t met the challenge. Maybe I can’t read the pictures anymore? No one would like to think. So until next week, with many more newspapers to show.

23.09.2011[ read full story ]

So let’s say, for a few minutes, that photojournalism is not dead. Let’s pretend, for the sake of pleasure, that there are publications that still continue to pay for and publish great photojournalistic work. Now, let’s open our eyes and see it happen. Mother Jones, a US based award winner no...

28.09.2011[ read full story ]