Love in the First Person by Matt and Melissa Eich
In the span of a year, Matt Eich, 20, won College Photographer of the Year, Melissa Eich, 19, discovered she was pregnant, they married and moved to Portland for Matt’s internship. See the project at mediastorm.org.
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“Close to the Edge will try to assess situations where there is vulnerability to abuse or trafficking, where the individual freedom of choice of the younger Cambodian generations is threatened. Minors forced into prostitution through poverty or drug use, virginities sold in brothels, children used for begging by their parents or by organised structures, orphans [...]
David Holloway takes a look at the National Champion Chuckwagon Races held in Clinton, Arkansas. See David’s work on A Photo A Day. More of David’s work can be found on his website onethousandwords.net.
When I started looking at photojournalist Justin Mott’s website, I could not get past the first essay. It just plain stopped me cold. Mott has an excellent essay about the Ba Vi Orphanage near Hanoi, Vietnam that is caring for 124 severely disabled and abandoned children that are believed to be 3rd generation Agent Orange [...]
Freelance photojournalist Lukasz Kus photographed the events surrounding Kosovo declaring its independence on February 16, 2008. View Lukasz Kus’ multimedia presentation.
Masaru Goto’s images of Khmer Rouge soldiers that are protecting Cambodia’s claim to the Preah Vihear temple following UNESCO approving Cambodia’s bid to make the temple a UN World Heritage site. The decision has ignited long-standing tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, who both claim land around the temple, which lies on the border between the [...]
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 [...]
Divided Soul by David Alan Harvey David’s web site has two galleries of images from his book Divided Soul. Nobody captures the heartbeat of a culture the way that Harvey does with his camera. Visit Divided Soul and be amazed.
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.
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 [...]
Alex Webb had published, The Suffering of Light, the first comprehensive monograph covering the career of the acclaimed American photojournalist. The book contains some of Webb’s most iconic images. Images from the book can be seen on Webb’s website at www.webbnorriswebb.com. The book, published by Aperture, can be purchased at www.aperture.org/books/books-new/suffering.html.
