Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Zoriah's deeply affecting pictures of Aids victims, war, poverty and child laborers

Children in poverty, from Kenya. In addition to Kenya, his striking photographs are from Bangladesh, Iraq and Gaza, among other sites.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Touring the suburbs


World Press Photo: "The picture shows a group of young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood devastated by Israeli bombings. The picture was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.

World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally describes the winning image: 'It's a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious.'"

But the picture is not quite what it seems.