While looking for a story about climate change in North America, photographer Nina Berman stumbled upon a tiny subject with a huge impact. The Mountain Pine Beetle is an 8 mm-long (about 1/3 of an inch) insect that is killing millions of acres of forest across Canada and the northern United States. Continue reading »
NYT Reports – Emilio Morenatti and Andi Jatmiko have been evacuated to a medical center in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, The Associated Press reported. Two soldiers from the Fifth Stryker Brigade of Fort Lewis, Wash., were also injured when their vehicle ran over a bomb planted in the open desert terrain, not far from the town of Spin Boldak. NYT story here.
Varanasi, India : Holy Waters – Images by Brent Foster
Multimedia journalist and publisher of Visual Journalist, Brent Foster, has a new set of images from India. Continue reading »
The New York Times travel section has published a wonderful story about legendary photographer Edward Weston and the Monterey Pennisula where he made some of his most important images of his career. Continue reading »
Photographer James Hill narrates a slideshow of farming photographs from Russia on the New York Times website. The story, which has been repeated on every continent, is about a how modernization in the farm industry is affecting the workers and their way of life.
It’s an interesting show but the photographs aren’t unexpected. Hill has some nice moments sprinkled through the story. One example is a photograph of a young Russian woman wearing shorts and a t-shirt shopping among traditionally dressed, older, farm women, one of who eyes her wearily.
Hill’s photographic strength lies in his ability to put the broad landscape of agrarian Russia into visual order. This is an audio slideshow worth viewing.