The wreckage left by the Force 5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, defies description and baffles belief. That’s where Edward Keating comes in. The veteran photojournalist blends a tender love for Joplin. A place he knows the city from repeated visits as part of a project he is pursuing on the storied American artery Route 66. With a clear, unflinching eye he documented the aftermath of this weeks tragic storms.
Iceland’s most active volcano erupted Saturday — just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days. The powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles into the air.
Halfway through their Postcards From America road trip Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Paolo Pellegrin, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotsky and Ginger Strand sent LightBox a dispatch from one stop along the route, Del Rio.
This Week: Violence along Israel’s borders; Mississippi floods; Libyan rebels in training; IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan in court; Haitian President Michel Martelly’s inauguration; an Israeli illusionist stands tall; “Spiderman” climbs Turkey’s tallest building; a Chinese bride’s wedding day suicide jump […]
A new iPad app offers an interactive look at 25 years of George Steinmetz’s aerial photography.
Reuters photographer Baz Ratner photographs an Israeli policeman dressed as a Palestinian woman during Nakba protests.
Tensions rise in Jerusalem as Palestinians commemorate the displacement that followed Israel’s Independence in 1948.
This week; Tennessee floods as the Mississippi River rises to historic levels; airlifting the wounded in Afghanistan; saving the Pope; Anish Kapoor’s monumental sculpture; rebuilding in Haiti; the colorful retort to Uganda’s protests.
Curated by photo editor Elisabeth Biondi and photojournalist Enrico Bossan, the five-day event aims to highlight the changing state of documentary photography.
Magnum Photographers Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Mikhael Subotsky, and writer Ginger Strand are a bunch of friends going on a homespun adventure; a two week road trip.
