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Marcus Bleasdale - Watsa, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( 2004 )

Marcus Bleasdale - Watsa, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( 2004 )

A child works in a gold mine in Watsa, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This photograph is from "The Rape of a Nation", Marcus Bleasdale's long-term documentation of the conflict in eastern Congo, where control of mineral-rich regions became closely tied to years of armed violence and humanitarian crisis

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 13 hours ago

Brent Stirton - Rufiji, Tanzania ( 2013 )

Yusuf Shabani Difika lost both his arms in a lion attack during a fishing trip near Selous National Park. In this photograph, a relative helps him wash in the Rufiji River.

Villages bordering the park are not separated by fences, and lions regularly roam beyond its boundaries.

Many of these communities live alongside wildlife without directly benefiting from the park's tourism or conservation economy.

Read more about this story on Brent Stirton's website: www.brentstirton.com/living-with-lions

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 1 day ago

David Seymour - Naples, Italy ( 1948 )

A girl sells Black Market cigarettes to customers at nearby cafés.

In post-war Naples, many American cigarettes were made from discarded cigarette butts and repackaged into old cartons

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 3 days ago

Luke Gram - North Korea ( 2019 )

From the Project " The Architecture of Control "

" Access was structured, with minders deciding where we went and what we saw. Some of these images were made within those limits. Others were not "

Here's the full Project on Luke Gram's website : www.lukegram.com

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 4 days ago

Peter Marlow - Kaliningrad, Russia ( 2001 )

Children look down at a bear sitting alone in a pit at Kaliningrad Zoo

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 5 days ago

Moises Saman - Havana, Cuba ( 2026 )

In Central Havana, a schoolboy walks past a street filled with piles of uncollected garbage, some of it still burning along the curb. With fuel shortages crippling municipal services, trash collection has become increasingly irregular, leaving waste to accumulate in residential neighborhoods.

Residents have begun setting fire to the piles, sending smoke through the streets and exposing children and families to hazardous air as they go about their daily routines

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 10 days ago
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Walter Rosenblum - Normandy, France ( 1944 )

The picture of " Heroic Beauty ” :

Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski kneels over the blanket covered body of an American soldier he had just helped rescue from the surf off Omaha Beach.

Exhausted, Sidlowski appears motionless. His dripping wet uniform hugged by an inflated life belt, his face tortured and staring as though he is looking at someone but can’t find the words to speak.

Behind him the scene carries on, other men work to treat those that were saved while waves churn the waters of the English Channel beneath a vast invasion armada. Yet Sidlowski is still

u/Ok_Ganache_6570 — 10 days ago

Werner Bischof ( 1916 - 1954 )

Werner Bischof is widely regarded as one of the defining figures of twentieth-century photography. Born in Zurich in 1916, he initially trained in commercial and studio photography before turning to documentary work in the aftermath of the Second World War. In 1949, he became a full member of Magnum Photos, where he worked alongside photographers including Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and George Rodger.

During the early 1950s, Bischof traveled extensively across Europe, Asia and the Americas, producing reportages on post-war reconstruction, cultural traditions and everyday life. His work was published internationally through Magnum Photos and in leading illustrated magazines, reaching audiences around the world.

Between 1951 and 1954, his assignments took him to countries including India, Japan, Indochina and Peru. The photographs made during these journeys became an important part of his archive and continue to be preserved in museum collections, exhibitions and publications dedicated to his work.

In 1954, he traveled through Mexico and Panama, and then on to a remote part of Peru, where he was engaged in making a film. On May 16 Bischof died in a road accident in the Andes at the age of 38, only nine days before Magnum founder Robert Capa lost his life in Indochina.

His legacy is currently being celebrated in the exhibition Werner Bischof: Point of View at the Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini in Milan, where around 200 photographs, contact sheets and archival documents offer one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of his work in recent years.

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 8 days ago

Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - Gaza, Palestine ( 2018 )

Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from Israeli fire and tear gas during a protest against U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem and ahead of the 70th anniversary of Nakba, at the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 14 days ago

Jill Freedman ( 1939 - 2019 )

From the Book " Street Cops " :

Two men got together and nearly beat each other to death.

They used iron pipes, and they hit each other so hard that one of the pipes bent.

When we got there, the loser was a mess.

The winner kept pulling his limp body and rocking him, shaking him, in his arms.

Over and over he cried, " Hermano, no mueras. Mi Hermano. Hey brother, hey man. Don't die. Come on, man "

Mi Hermano Brotherly Love.

He asked for a cigarette and said they were brothers-in-law.

He didn't say what they were fighting about.

I don't think he remembered.

An ambulance came.

It took one, we took the other

u/Vast_Mark_8290 — 12 days ago