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    He was the face of the horrific Boston Marathon bombings before the world even knew his name.
    Jeff Bauman, bloodied and singed, his legs blown off by the first of two bombs detonated near the finish line of the 2013 race, was photographed as he was frantically wheeled away from the scene moments after the explosions. The Associated Press image, so graphic some news outlets chose to crop it, became one of the most famous photographs of the attacks, which killed three people and injured hundreds more.
    Bauman, who was 27 at the time, had just been a bystander, there to cheer on his girlfriend as she ran the race when the bombs went off. It was a story that encapsulated the tragedy visited upon all the victims that day. But in many ways, it was the next beat in the tale that was the most compelling: How could someone so viciously and publicly attacked, left with the kind of grievous injuries more normally seen on battlefields, find his way back to a normal life?
    Three weeks after the bombings, Josh Haner, a photojournalist with the New York Times, arrived at Bauman’s hospital in Boston to document the first steps of that journey. He quickly won the trust of Bauman, who allowed him to photograph some of the most intimate and painful moments of his path to recovery—from his physical therapy to his moments alone, lying in a hospital bed trying to grasp the enormity of what had happened to him. 
    (Photograph by Josh Haner/The New York Times)
  • Thursday, September 18, 2014 8:09 AM

    'Saul Leiter: Early Black and White' photo exhibit opens in New York City

    When Saul Leiter died last November at the age of 89, he was largely unknown outside the art world—and even within, he had been overlooked until relatively recently. And that was fine by him.
    A prolific photographer who spent six decades roaming and documenting the streets of New York City, Leiter was a reclusive figure who took pictures simply because he loved it—not because he sought recognition or accolades. “Fame,” Leiter told a photography blog in 2009, “is of no use.”
    “A lot of artists are consumed by their legacies and what will happen, but he wasn’t,” recalled Margit Erb, Leiter’s longtime assistant and one of the few allowed into his private world. “To him, creating was like breathing. It was something he needed to do everyday.”
    And Leiter did, walking the city with a camera right up until the day he died, always in search of the beauty of the everyday. Along the way, he amassed a massive collection of work, hundreds of thousands of photos of New York dating back to the 1940s that mostly sat in boxes around his apartment in Manhattan’s East Village—most of them unseen by anyone except for him.
  • Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:07 AM

    9/11: Then and now

    Yahoo News photographer Gordon Donovan returned this week to the scenes of many memorable images taken on Sept. 11, 2001, closely matching them with images from today.
    Since 2001, new obstacles have arisen, requiring some adjustments in camera angles to align with photographs taken on the day of the terrorist attacks. This is the fourth time Donovan has revisited the New York skyline; each year presents new challenges as the landscape changes. (Yahoo News)

  • Friday, August 29, 2014 1:58 PM

    Visa Pour l’Image: A peek at the exhibitions at the International Festival of Photojournalism

    The 26th annual Visa Pour l’Image, the “Cannes Film Festival” of photojournalism, kicked off on August 30, filling the French city of Perpignan with more than 3,000 of the world’s best photojournalists and photo editors, along with agencies from around the world, converging to share tips, contacts, more than a few drinks, and the best of the world’s photographic images.
    This year’s Visa Pour l’Image showcases 26 exhibitions around the city. In a year renowned for violence against journalists, many are anticipating a retrospective of recently fallen Associated Press photographer Anja Neidringhaus’ work, as well as images from the late Chris Hondros tribute book ‘Testament.’ The exhibition ‘Amateurs make the front page’ promises some surprises on a variety of subjects.
    Meetings, seminars and lectures fill the days, followed by nightly outdoor screenings. Each evening event begins with a news reel of the best work from the breaking news of the year and award presentations. Among the most anticipated is this year’s video presentation of the new book ‘Photographer’s Paradise: Turbulent America 1960-1990,’ by award winning veteran photojournalist Jean Pierre Laffont.
    Visa Pour l’Image, directed by Jean-François Leroy, starts August 30 and continues through September 14.
    (Photograph by Anja Neidringhaus/Associated Press)
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2014 7:57 AM

    American killed in Syria a journalist at heart

    Journalist James Foley, captured and held six weeks while covering the uprising in Libya, knew the risks when he went to Syria in 2012 to cover the escalating violence there. It didn’t matter. He was a journalist at heart, once saying he’d cover local news if it meant doing the job he loved.
    Foley was snatched again in Syria in November 2012 when the car he was riding in was stopped by four militants in a battle zone that Sunni rebel fighters and government forces were trying to control. A video posted Tuesday purportedly showed his execution, but officials in Washington were still working to verify its authenticity.
    At Foley’s family home in Rochester, a light burned yellow in a center upstairs window and a yellow ribbon adorned a tree at the foot of the driveway. His mother, Diane Foley, her eyes red and glassy, said her family would be making no statements on the video.
  • Tuesday, August 5, 2014 4:32 AM

    Scenes From the California Drought

    An unprecedented 82 percent of California is in an “extreme drought,” according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report released last week. Of that, 58 percent of the state is in an “exceptional drought” — the driest conditions possible. Record-low rainfall has sent rivers, lakes and water reservoirs to their lowest levels in decades—threatening the water supply of many cities. The unusually dry conditions have increased the risk of wildfires, which have already ravaged parts of the state — most recently an area near Yosemite National Park. But the drought’s biggest victim could be California’s Central Valley, the source of fully half the nation’s fruits and vegetables, where roughly 500,000 acres of farmland have been left barren this season because of a lack of water. In three of the hardest-hit counties — Fresno, Kern and Tulare — farmers are worried the drought could drive them out of business.

    (Photograph by Holly Bailey/Yahoo News)
  • Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:22 AM

    Death sentence given in AP photographer's killing

    A Kabul court announced Wednesday that the Afghan police officer charged with killing Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding veteran AP correspondent Kathy Gannon has been convicted and sentenced to death.
    It was the first court hearing in the case and, under Afghan law, the verdict and sentence are subject to several stages of review.
    Six judges at the Kabul District Court found former Afghan police unit commander Naqibullah guilty of murder and treason over the attack in the southeastern city of Khost that targeted the international journalists as they prepared to cover the first round of the country’s presidential election. The judges also sentenced Naqibullah, who goes by one name like many other Afghans, to four years in prison for shooting and wounding Gannon in the attack. (AP)
     (Photo by AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
  • Friday, June 13, 2014 11:20 AM

    'Destino': Photojournalist Michelle Frankfurter's look at the plight of undocumented Central American migrants in search of the American dream

    Meaning both “destination” and “destiny” in Spanish, ‘Destino’ portrays the perilous journey of undocumented Central American migrants along the network of freight trains lurching inexorably across Mexico, towards the hope of finding work in the United States. It is the odyssey of a generation of exiles across a landscape that is becoming increasingly dangerous, heading towards a precarious future as an option of last resorts.
    The unprecedented wave of Central American migration began a full century after Mexican immigration to the U.S., the consequence of bloody civil wars, U.S. cold war intervention in the region and crippling international trade policies. Such conflicts left a legacy of drug and gang related violence, rampant domestic abuse and unrelenting poverty. Despite an economic downturn in the United States, heightened security and harsh anti-immigrant legislation, Central American migration, in particular, that of women and unaccompanied minors has increased over the past several years.
  • Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:15 PM

    Remembering the work of photojournalist Camille Lepage, killed in C.A.R.

    Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old French photojournalist who had spent months documenting deadly conflict in Central African Republic has been killed, the French presidency said Tuesday, May 13.
    Lepage, a freelance photographer whose work was published in major French and American newspapers, died in western Central African Republic not far from the border with Cameroon, authorities said.
    "All means necessary will be used to shed light on to the circumstances of this murder and to find her killers," the French presidency said in the statement.
    The U.N. Security Council as well as the Committee to Protect Journalists also called for an immediate investigation into her death.
    Lepage’s work had appeared in The New York Times as well as in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She also had sold images to French newspapers including Le Monde and Liberation.
    Her death comes as the security situation worsens for reporters and photographers in the volatile country; two Central African journalists already have been killed this month in Bangui, the capital.

    A native of Angers, France, Lepage also had worked extensively in Juba, South Sudan before moving to Central African Republic. In an interview with the photography blog PetaPixel, she said she was drawn to covering forgotten conflicts.
    "I want the viewers to feel what the people are going through. I’d like them to empathize with them as human beings, rather than seeing them as another bunch of Africans suffering from war somewhere in this dark continent," she said. "I wish they think: ‘Why on Earth are those people in living hell; why don’t we know about it and why is no one doing anything?’ I would like the viewers to be ashamed of their government for knowing about it without doing anything to make it end."
    Jerome Delay, chief Africa photographer for The Associated Press, first met Lepage while the two were working in South Sudan and again in Central African Republic. On Tuesday he described her as a “very talented, extremely courageous young woman.”
    "She was the one who would spend the time on the job to make others understand what was going on in places like Central African Republic and South Sudan," he said.
    Lepage had recently traveled to New York for a prestigious portfolio review and a workshop at The New York Times. (AP) 
  • Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:14 PM
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