Having spent the last three weeks in Asia, and feeling a little asian myself I present this press review. Everywhere I look I see signs of the crisis—everywhere except in the papers. What do I see? Handshakes, pats on the back, knowing smiles, men in black stepping out of f...

09.12.2011[ read full story ]

This week, cities across the United States pushed back against the demonstrators who had been occupying public parks to protest economic inequality and a panoply of social and economic issues. In New York, Occupy Wall Street protesters were driven from their encampment in the ...

18.11.2011[ read full story ]

This week, a single subject: after forty-two years of dictatorship—better than Hitler, Stalin and other sinister characters that History is obliged to remember—the distinguished, blood-stained guest of so many short-sighted leaders... Muammar Gaddafi is dead. “The End of a Tyrant,...

28.10.2011[ read full story ]

The photographic week that was in the U.S. media: the week when Muammar el-Qaddafi met his inglorious end, his body becoming nothing more than a trophy for amateur photographers to snap. It was the week when a magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck southeastern Turkey, leaving hundred...

28.10.2011[ read full story ]

Drop everything you are doing, you are taking a spaceship. Not the kind that goes up for a few minutes and brings you back down. No, you are talking the Major Tom kind, destination Mars. You have not much time to pack and the agency, in its infinite kindness, let’s you take one photograph. On...

24.10.2011[ read full story ]

This week, you are going to notice a few of my “tropisms.” I have a soft spot for revolutionary movements, and it’s a genuine pleasure to see every day in the papers those spirits and bodies reacting against the elements of a priggish, know-it-all society. They are the ones oc...

21.10.2011[ read full story ]

Talent, they say, is something that comes with age. Sometimes talent likes to play a trick on us and disregard our rules. It emerges out of seemingly nowhere. 18 year old Australian born photographer Nirrimi Hakanson is one of these “natural’ photographer that has not wait...

17.10.2011[ read full story ]

This week we watched as the battle for Col. Muammar el-Qadaffi’s last redoubt, the city of Surt, fell to fighters of the Libyan National Transitional Council after intense street fighting. The world-tour of imagery takes us then to Pakistan, where gunmen turned a convoy of NATO...

21.10.2011[ read full story ]

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 ]