Pastor Marrion P’Udongo worked as a fixer with just about every journalist who passed through Congo, and spent years guiding photographers through displacement camps, firefights, and into the homes of people who’d been raped and assaulted. The Pastor needed help, and the world responded. An update on his condition after a kidney transplant.
Photographer Dan Winters captures a final look at the launch of Atlantis, the last space shuttle launched at the end of NASA's shuttle program.
This week: after the tornado in Missouri, a man’s escape from prison in a suitcase foiled, Somalian refugees, Cuba’s national aquarium, the running of the bulls, tangled parachutes, wild horse roundup during the Rapa Das Bestas in Spain, anti-government protestors in Yemen, and southern Sudan prepares for independence.
Yola Monakhov lives blocks from the Hudson River. Empire Pictures, her new series of exquisite large format photographs, explores the river's many faces and the life that surrounds it.
The 42nd edition of the Les Rencontres d’Arles photo festival kicked off on July 4 in the south of France, where 47 exhibitions will be shown throughout 23 locations, including old churches and factories.
In Sudan, birth can sometimes seem merely more opportunity for death. Africa's largest country splits in two on July 9, forming a new, smaller north Sudan and a wholly new South Sudan. But rather than finally bringing an end to more than 50 years of fighting, the split is throwing up a whole new set of conflicts – inside both north and south.
On July 9th, 2011, the swamps and plains of southern Sudan will become the world’s 193rd country. Juba-based photographer Pete Muller reflects on South Sudan's evolution and future.
In 2004, photographer Molly Landreth began documenting the varied lives of queer Americans. Seven years later, the Embodiment project consists of more than 80 portraits and 18 short films.
Souvenir postcards collected from flea markets in Europe and the United States highlight the golden age of wrestling in the years leading up to World War I.
Last year John Cyr, a Brooklyn based photographer, printer and educator, began the Developer Trays project as part of his MFA thesis study at the School of Visual Arts. With a strong attachment to his own developer tray, he began making images of other photographers' trays, bringing to light the historical significance of the photographic process.
