Where the Mountains Have No Name / Nepal / 2011-2012 / Joel Tettamanti
So this guy just travels the world and takes photos of places. What a rough life!
(Top) Nozomi Sabanai (L), together with her sister, looks at a catamaran sightseeing boat that was thrown by the tsunami onto a two-story building, at Otsuchi town, Iwate prefecture, Japan.
(Bottom) Tsunami survivor Tadao Kamei (L) and a friend write the words ‘Ganbaro!’ (‘Hang in there!’) on a billboard in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Japan.
Photos by Yasuyoshi Chiba, 1st prize stories, People in the News Category, of the 2012 World Press Photo Awards
World Press Photo
World Press Photo Of The Year Awards 2012
Evgenia Arbugaeva’s ongoing exploration of a small town called Tiksi in the very north of Siberia
‘Barnacle’ Bill Louwjma navigates toward his first set of traps for the day on his stone crabbing boat, ‘The Whatever’, off the coast of Everglades City, Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. With a population of only 479 in the 2000 census, ‘Everglades’ still remains a bustling little town with two main industries of fishing and tourism with a strong sense of local pride and community. During the 1970s and 1980s much of the town’s residents became involved in an elaborate drug smuggling operation, and by some counts as many as 80 percent of the adult male population has spent time in prison.
Photo & Caption by David Walter Banks
Prix Pictet-winning series Yangtze, The Long River by Nadav Kander
Artist statement
Yangtze, The Long River
The Yangtze River, which forms the premise to this body of work, is the main artery that flows 4100miles (6500km) across china, travelling from its furthest westerly point in Qinghai Province to Shanghai in the east. The river is embedded in the consciousness of the Chinese, even for those who live thousands of miles from the river. It plays a significant role in both the spiritual and physical life of the people.
More people live along its banks than live in the USA, one in every eighteen people on the planet.
Using the river as a metaphor for constant change, I have photographed the landscape and people along its banks from mouth to source.
Importantly for me I worked intuitively, trying not to be influenced by what I already knew about the country. I wanted to respond to what I found and felt and to seek out the iconography that allowed me to frame views that make the images unique to me.
After several trips to different parts of the river, it became clear that what I was responding to and how I felt whilst being in china was permeating into my pictures; a formalness and unease, a country that feels both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself. China is a nation that appears to be severing its roots by destroying its past in the wake of the sheer force of its moving “forward” at such an astounding and unnatural pace. A people scarring their country and a country scarring its people.
I felt a complete outsider and explained this pictorially by “stepping back” and showing humans dwarfed by their surroundings. Common man has little say in China’s progression and this smallness of the individual is alluded to in the work.
Although it was never my intention to make documentary pictures, the
sociological context of this project is very important and ever present. The displacement of 3 million people in a 600km stretch of the River and the effect on humanity when a country moves towards the future at pace are themes that will inevitably be present within the work.
A Chinese man who I became friends with whilst working on the project reiterated what many Chinese people feel: “ Why do we have to destroy to develop?” He explained how in Britain many of us could revisit the place of our childhood, knowing that it will be much the same, it will remind us of our families and upbringing. In China that is virtually impossible, the scale of development has left most places unrecognisable, “Nothing is the same. We can’t revisit where we came from because it no longer exists.”
China’s landscape both economically and physically is changing daily. These are photographs that can never be taken again.
Eurasia’s tallest volcano, the Klyuchevskoy, erupting on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East
by Denis Budko
Silverback Gorilla, Africa by Ian Nichols for National Geographic
100 Best Photos of the Year 2011 by Reuters
From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year
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Lac Édouard Sanatorium: The Third Floor Corridor (by gary’s images…)
Nightwalkers, Dublin Ireland
photo by Alen MacWeeney, 1965
A woman covers herself from heavy rains caused by approaching Hurricane Gustav in Havana, Cuba. (by Javier Galeano for TIME)
Re-Media by Krista Wortendyke
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Photo for 10/20 of me in high school - Roger Ebert’s Journal
