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Patrick Witty

International Picture Editor, TIME
Patrick Witty is the international picture editor of TIME. Since joining the magazine in 2010, Witty has coordinated and overseen coverage across the world that has won numerous awards, including the World Press Photo of the Year, the Visa d'Or for News at Visa pour l'Image and numerous POYi, ASME, and SPD awards. Before joining TIME, Witty was the International Picture Editor at the New York Times.

Latest Posts by Patrick Witty

Amy Weston—WENN.com
The Backstory

A Desperate Leap of Faith in London: The Riot Photo That Has the World Buzzing

With each huge news story there is a scramble it seems to find the icon—the single photograph that resonates deeper and more powerfully than the rest, and comes to symbolize the event in the mind of readers. Amy Weston may have captured that image.

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Jošt Franko
In Progress

The Young Slovenian, Jošt Franko

The necks of the swans bend gracefully, one seamlessly framed by a young girl’s arm – her body language a subtle echo of her surroundings. It’s a complex image reminiscent of another era, but most surprising is its author: 18-year-old Jošt Franko.

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Gona Aziz
The Backstory

Iraq through Iraqi Eyes

Inside a dusty compound in northern Iraq, amid bombed-out tanks and empty prison cells once used for torture, a group of photographers gathered for a week-long intensive workshop on photojournalism

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Ed Wray
In Progress

The Masked Monkeys of Indonesia

Photographer Ed Wray was terrified the first time he encountered a masked monkey. Having lived and worked in Jakarta as a freelance photographer for years he was accustomed to seeing the animals, cruelly leashed by chains, jumping through hoops or riding trikes on the sidewalks. But the mask was a terrifying twist.

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Stefanie Gordon
The Backstory

Amateur Photo of Shuttle Goes Viral

Despite hundreds of professional photographers covering today’s shuttle launch, an image taken on an iPhone by an unemployed event planner from Hoboken is the most memorable – and the most viral.

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Stefano De Luigi—VII Network
The Backstory

Fade To White, Blanco by Stefano De Luigi

For the first time ever, World Press Photo is awarding multimedia in its annual competition. Among the finalists is a ground breaking production entitled Blanco, a project exploring blindness across the globe by Italian photographer Stefano De Luigi.

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James Whitlow Delano
Toolbox

The 3/11 Project: Photographs from Japan, Helping Japan

The 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project, a new app for the iPhone and iPad, features the work of fourteen photographers who documented the tragic aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The app is an innovative fundraiser as well – all proceeds from the project go to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

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Line 1, Beijing Subway, 2007
In Progress

Underneath Beijing, in Transit

In a dreamlike and hypnotic series of photographs, Gilles Sabrie documents commuters on the trains beneath Beijing, China.

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Portrait of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, by Platon
The Backstory

The Craziest Guy in the Room: A Portrait of Gaddafi by Platon

Three inches from one of the most notorious dictators in history, the photographer Platon focused tightly on the black eyes glaring at him through his lens. “There was nothing in them,” he said. “It’s like his soul had been scooped out of his head and taken away.”

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Yuri Kozyrev, Lynsey Addario, Tyler Hicks and Nicki Sobecki in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 11, 2011.
The Backstory

Libya Releases Times Journalists

TIME LightBox is thrilled to report that the Libyan government has released four New York Times journalists held captive since last Tuesday. Photographers Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, along with Anthony Shadid and Stephen Farrell, were detained in the city of Ajdabiya while covering clashes between rebels and the Libyan army.

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