" I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image "
~ Raymond Depardon
" Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it "
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
" My wife, the photographer Rebecca Norris Webb — who has had little experience photographing conflict or violence — said she wanted to go with me. I balked. Shouldn’t she stay in Brooklyn, away from the chaos? Perhaps I shouldn’t even go. What if we were separated and unable to communicate during another wave of violence? So we chose to stay together and do one of the few things we know how to do: respond with a camera.
Even now, this image continues to pose questions about the future: Just what kind of world will our children inherit? Moreover, looking back at this photograph of a mother and child, I’m not sure I would have seen this particular photograph, with its note of tenderness and looming tragedy, if Rebecca had not been with me "
~ Alex Webb
From the Book " Glasgow "
A young Afghan fighter stands with his rifle in the mountainous region of Nuristan, Afghanistan.
That year marked the beginning of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, which developed into a prolonged conflict between Soviet and Afghan government forces and various mujahideen groups.
The war lasted until the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 and contributed to the political and military instability that followed in the country.
Ground Zero, September 2001.
Remembering 9/11 — 25 years later
Priest in Barcelona
After a week of heavy rain in November 2021, severe flooding hit Sarajevo, creating major problems for local residents.
One of the hardest-hit areas was Otes, where the Sarajevo Waves residential complex was partially submerged by the floodwaters, leaving several cars stranded or completely submerged.
Penguins taking their weekly walk. Every week, a warden takes a group on a promenade through the streets of Edinburgh, creating scenes like this to draw new visitors to the zoo.
From the series " Children "
Remembering Franco Fontana, the Master and Poet of Color
" Good photography is not about zone printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more "
~ Elliott Erwitt
From the Book " Subway "
From the series " Mardi Gras "
Andrea (Andy) Rocchelli was an Italian freelance photojournalist and co-founder of the independent photography collective Cesura, founded in 2008 with four other photographers after working as an assistant to Magnum member Alex Majoli. The collective was created as an independent platform for photographic projects free from commercial compromises.
Rocchelli documented a wide range of subjects, including the Arab Spring in Libya and Tunisia, human rights violations in Central Asia, migration in southern Italy and conflicts across Eastern Europe and Russia. His work was published internationally by Le Monde, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Kommersant and Novaya Gazeta.
On May 24, 2014, Rocchelli was killed in Andreyevka, near Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine, while documenting civilians trapped in the Donbas conflict. He was with human rights activist and interpreter Andrei Mironov, who was also killed, French photojournalist William Roguelon, who was seriously wounded, and a local driver.
While the group was stopped near abandoned railway tracks, they came under heavy artillery and small-arms fire. The targeted attack that killed Rocchelli and Mironov was later determined by Italian investigative authorities to have been deliberate rather than accidental.
In May 2016, Rocchelli's final photographs were recovered. Taken while he was under fire shortly before his death, they documented the duration of the attack, the location where the group was caught, and their clothing as unarmed civilians.
World Press Photo of the Year ( 1965 ) : Flee to Safety
A mother and her children wade across a river to escape US bombing.
The village had been evacuated by the US Air Force after it was suspected of being used as a Viet Cong base camp. In September 1965, the US Marines launched a clearing operation in the area north of their military base near the South Vietnamese coastal town of Quy Nhon.
The base was under constant attack from Viet Cong snipers hiding in the surrounding villages. To secure the perimeter around the naval base, the Marines swept through the villages, rounding up suspects while evacuating the local population. The US Air Force also began bombing the villages from the air, targeting Viet Cong sniper positions.
From the Book " Infidel "
Men of 2nd Platoon dig earth to fill sandbags and reinforce parts of the Restrepo bunker in the Korangal Valley, a rugged and remote area known as the " Valley of Death " one of the deadliest combat zones of the Afghan War.
Restrepo ( 2010 ), directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, is a critically acclaimed documentary following the lives of these soldiers stationed at Restrepo outpost.