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