Click here to watch Nicholas Kristoff's slide show on how educating girls and empowering women can help fight poverty and extremism. Photos by Katy Grannan.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Difficult Decisions on End-of-Life Care
In the image below, Frank Foster, 60, sleeps under sedation to relieve pain and other effects of liver cancer, in the hospice unit at Franklin Hospital in Valley Stream on Long Island. Terminally ill patients, their families and their medical teams have the option of choosing palliative sedation to make dying less painful and to ease other effects of the transition, like shortness of breath, delirium or anxiety.
Watch the rest of the slide show by Ozier Muhammed here.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Death And Destruction On The Cocaine Trail
In this audio slide show, Rory Carroll traces the bloody route of Latin America's most profitable drug, from being produced in the Andes to being fished out of the sea as "white lobster" by smugglers across the globe.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
WSJ Best Photos Of 2009
Browse the 10 image categories here. Photo below by Roger Lemoyne.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wounded UK Soldier Rows English Channel
Major Phil Packer was told he would never walk again after being wounded in a rocket attack in Iraq in 2008. He rowed across the English Channel to raise money for the charity Help For Heroes.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Sierra Leone - Maternal Health
Sierra Leone has among the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In 2009, it is estimated that one in eight women died during pregnancy. To get some perspective, one in 47,600 women die in pregnancy in Ireland. The reasons are complex but in part it is due to an insufficient health care system. In the capital of Freetown, one doctor has to serve more than 100,000 people. Getting drugs and equipment is expensive and the country is in desperate need of more trained doctors. Yet there may be hope since the government announced it will give free health care to pregnant women and children from April 27th, 2010 but they need help from the international community to make it sustainable.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Called To High Holy Mountain
The ancient monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece still beckons men who seek to satisfy a spiritual hunger. High on their holy cliffs, monks are defiant, zealous, prayerful. Meanwhile, the outside world creeps closer. See the series of images here.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Diamond Matters
From the mines to the jetset, follow the trail of the diamond. Photoseries by Kadir van Lohuizen in cooperation with Fatal Transactions campaign and NiZA.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Housing Is A Human Right
Homeless-led organization Picture the Homeless rally outside JP Morgan Chase headquarters in Manhattan. Read more at Housing is a Human Right.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Music Festival In Mali
Photographer Peter DiCampo treks past Timbuktu to attend the Festival au Desert, an annual gathering of African musicians set in the dunes of the Sahara. Watch the audio slide show here.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Child Soldiers
View the rest of the images this photo essay on child soldiers here. Image below by Christophe Simon.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Cannabis Culture
Photographer David Walter Banks explores the legally hazy world of marijuana and its users in this photo essay.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Choosing A Road More Traveled
Clay, a gifted 18-year-old musician near the top of her class in her small town of Newark, Ohio, should be going to a top college on scholarship. But she won't be, because like many in her small town, she feels a need to make money more than music. Read the rest of the story here.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Southern Sudan: LRA Violence Leaves People Terrified, Vulnerable
Photojournalist Brendan Bannon documented the deep wounds caused by attacks on civilians by the Lords Resistance Army rebel group in Southern Sudan.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Anchored In Faith
Ko Panyee is a true island village, built on stilts above the bay in southern Thailand. The humble community seems happy in its poor fishing heritage and Islamic faith but is also buoyed by a steady lunch crowd of tourists from nearby Phuket.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Living Fully
Staff and patient voices tell the story of the Hospice & Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell in Burlington, NC.
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Traveling With Ghana's Kayayo Girls
Photographer Peter DiCampo meets the young women who come to Ghana's big cities in search of work and a future. Watch the photo essay here.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Black Market
Every year, some 30,000 primates, two-to-five million birds, and ten million reptile skins enter the Asian wild animal market, the third-largest illegal smuggling operation in the world.
Photojournalist Patrick Brown goes deep inside this vast, dangerous world. He risks his own personal safety to take us on a fascinating journey through the lives of myth-bound Chinese villagers, the status-seeking nouveau riche, third-generation smugglers, and corrupt officials that make this market possible.
In cultures where tiger skins, rhino horns, and bear bile are imbued with mythical properties, these wild animal parts are bought and paid for at astonishingly high prices. In Black Market, we come to understand that the price for these rarities may be the very survival of endangered species world-wide, as well as the ecological stability of the planet.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
One Face Among Millions
This video was created to support Mapendo International's campaign of text messaging to save the lives of forgotten refugees. Meet Grace.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
The Big Picture 2009 Part 1
The year 2009 has come and gone gone months ago, but it's still worthwhile to take a look back over the 12 months of last year through photographs. Each image tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of a memorable year. Photo below by Dylan Martinez.
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Saturday, May 8, 2010
The Ninth Floor
In the 1970s, New York artist Joe Smith rented an apartment overlooking Fifth Avenue. In the years that followed, the rooms became a black hole of drug addiction, hopelessness, and squandered dreams. A chance meeting with one of the residents drew photojournalist Jessica Dimmock to the apartment, where she embarked on an almost three-year journey into the lives of those living there.
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Love In The First Person
The College Photographer of the Year contest has launched many famous photojournalism careers. At 20 years old, Matt Eich is a hard-working college student enjoying life with his girlfriend, Melissa, when he learns he has won the contest but he is also going to be a father. As these two young people navigate some very hard choices, they also stop to document this time in their lives, sharing their thoughts and fears for the road ahead. What results is Love in the First Person, a touching account of what it means to grow up.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Paula Bronstein, Photojournalist
Paula Bronstein recently won 2nd place in the Photojournalist of the Year competition. In this 2008 interview, Getty co-founder and CEO, Johnathan Klein interviews Getty Paula while she was embedded in Afghanistan.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
We Pray That They Do Not Come Back
Three segments from the forthcoming film "We pray that They do not come back"- a series of stories from a village in Swat that was the former Taliban operations centre.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Wreckless Willie
Willie Chapman has 10 children in 3 states and he’s 40 years old. Professional boxing matches are still his main source of income and also the only way he can pay child support to see his kids. Because of his age and losing record, Nevada may not license him to fight anymore. Willie also shows signs of dementia, most likely caused from continued brain trauma caused by boxing.
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6:28 AM
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
The Girl In The Window
Three years ago a police officer found a girl lying in her roach-infested room, naked except for an overflowing diaper. The child, pale and skeletal, communicated only through grunts. She was almost 7 years old. This is her story by Lane DeGregory and Melissa Lyttle.
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