Supporting Photographers, Moving Walls
On Wednesday, the Open Society Foundations will mark their 20th group exhibition of “Moving Walls” — a project reflecting the group’s support for long-term documentary photography.
On Wednesday, the Open Society Foundations will mark their 20th group exhibition of “Moving Walls” — a project reflecting the group’s support for long-term documentary photography.
Throughout 2012, TIME’s unparalleled photojournalists were there. At a time when so much hangs in the balance, bearing witness can be the most essential act — and that’s what we do. Here’s the best of our commissioned photojournalism from 2012.
Magnum photographer Moises Saman photographed clashes on the streets of Cairo for this week’s issue of TIME.
Revolutions, a book featuring the work of war photographer Rémi Ochlik, who was killed this spring in Syria, has just been published by Emphas.is. LightBox presents images from the book taken during conflicts in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria.
As Libya and Egypt hold nationwide elections, LightBox presents the work of Sarah Elliott, whose photographs show those who had the most at stake after the revolutions: women.
On Sunday, Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsy was announced as the winner of Egypt’s first democratic presidential election. Daniel Berehulak captured the tension and euphoria surrounding the announcement in Cairo.
Morocco’s Islamists are not seeking to take their country back to some ancient golden age, but instead trying to bring it to the 21st Century without losing its religious moorings.
Sometimes words just aren’t enough. Our photojournalism this year offers the chance to not only see, but also feel the story.
In 2011, Yuri Kozyrev traveled to seven countries covering protests and uprisings for TIME, including Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Russia, Greece and Tunisia. Here, he writes about the remarkable experience and what all the revolutions had in common.