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• Street Job by Aytac Onay

  A sharp increase in global unemployment rates was one of the well-observed results of the economical crisis rose in the last months of 2008. In many countries, following the crisis, the unemployment rate set new records, sometimes even month by month. More and more unemployed are seen to have taken to the streets to make [...]

• Sarah’s Gypsies by Salvi Danés

  Photojournalist Salvi Danés has an excellent set of images about gypsies in France and the celebration of the adoration of Sara Kali or Saint Sara, also known as Sara “the black.” Saint Sara is the patron saint of the Romanies (gypsies), the centre of its veneration. View the images on Salvi Danés’ website: www.salvidanes.com/portfolios/81101-saras-gypsies.

• Street Portraits by Michael Itkoff

  Michael Itkoff has traveled the world since 2002 taking portraits of everyday people in the street. In Itkoff’s photographs a makeshift backdrop is held behind each of his subjects in London, Sydney, Hanoi, Bangkok, and New York. This technique, normally reserved for celebrity and commercial portraiture, creates a striking aesthetic isolating the subjects from their [...]

• The Lonely Coast by Neil Fenton (A Kickstarter Project)

  Photographer Neil Fenton is looking for funding through Kickstarter to complete his project “The Lonely Coast and the Search for Californian Identity.” According to his project page on Kickstarter, his goal is “to create a body of work that represents the individuals who call the Pacific coast home. On the surface, it’s a documentary project [...]

• Yes We Did! Harlem Celebrates Obama Victory by Gerald Holubowicz

  Photographer Gerald Holubowicz spent election night photographing the reactions in Harlem. View his multimedia presentation.

• The Rape of a Nation by Marcus Bleasdale (BURN Magazine)

  Photo agency VII member Marcus Bleasdale has a stunning body of work focusing on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on David Alan Harvey’s Burn Magazine. The DRC is home to the deadliest war in the world today. An estimated 5.4 million people have died since 1998, the largest death toll since the Second World [...]

• Chernobyl’s Desolate Zone

  Russian born Diana Markosian, a freelance photojournalist and multimedia producer working out of Russia and the former Soviet Union, has a great set of images on her portfolio site about the areas around the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Normally we do not feature work unless there is a direct link to it, but we thought this was [...]

• Homeless in Seattle by Matt Lutton

  Seattle based Matt Lutton has a wonderful black and white essay on Seattle’s homeless. View Lutton’s Homeless essay on his website www.mattlutton.com.

• Burma by Maynard Switzer

  New York City based Maynard Switzer, specializing in beauty and fashion photography, has recently broadened his creative horizons to pursue travel, portrait and landscape photography. We think he is off to a great start. See Switzer’s images from Burma on his web site at www.maynardswitzer.com.

• Best News Photo’s Picked by Vanity Fair Magazine

  For Vanity Fair’s 25th anniversary, the magazine’s editors determined the top 25 news photographs.  See the images on Vanity Fair’s Website.