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 »
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.
Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak has a new multimedia presentation on the Magnum in Motion website about the conflict in Georgia. Dworzak traveled to Georgia despite just being released from a hospital after having surgery. He was on assignment for TIME magazine and the Wall Street Journal newspaper.