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TIME is proud to welcome PhotojournalismLinks to LightBox!
Mikko Takkunen, who recently joined TIME.com as an associate photo editor based in London, has run PhotoJournalismlinks.com, a curated source of the best photojournalism around the web, since 2007. Starting today, Takkunen will be rolling his efforts into a new PhotojournalismLinks feature published bi-weekly on LightBox, TIME’s photography blog. LightBox producer Vaughn Wallace spoke with Takkunen about his site and his plans for the future.
What led you to create PhotojournalismLinks? When was that?
I was doing a BA Photojournalism course in Swansea Metropolitan University in Wales and I found out that while the university library — where I spent enormous amounts of time (I even had part-time job there) — had a lot of great documentary photography and photojournalism books on its shelves. Classics by likes of Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train (still one of my favorite photography books) and Salgado’s Workers, as well as more contemporary books by photographers such as Pellegrin and Bleasdale — the most contemporary photojournalism work was most accessible on the web. I was visiting the websites of all the great agencies such as Magnum (I especially loved their Magnum in Motion features) and VII pretty much on daily basis, on top of which I was digging into any other sites that had great photojournalism on offer, Foto8, MediaStorm and the kind. I was constantly emailing with my fellow photojournalism students about the latest links we had found and pretty soon I had this massive bookmarks folder on my browser and I realized that instead of just sharing the links with some of my classmates, I might as well put them online, so that others could benefit from them as well. So I started a WordPress blog to be able to do that and that turned into Photojournalism Links. It all happened late 2007. For the first couple of years I was doing the site almost daily, then weekly, and for the last year or so, I’ve been doing monthly updates.
Who are your readers?
Based on the emails I’ve received, the readership consists of wide array of photography enthusiasts and professionals, from photography students to educators; professional photographers and agency representatives; and photo editors. I often felt I was spending far too much time working on the site, but knowing there were loads of people visiting the site really kept me going.
You’ve recently joined the staff of TIME as an associate photo editor based in London. What are you looking forward to most?
Well, first of all, I’m very much looking forward to joining the rest of the photo department in New York later this year! I’m having a great time at the London bureau, but to really grow as a photo editor, I would love to be in daily face-to-face contact with my colleagues.
I’m extremely proud to have been given the opportunity to join TIME. It’s a title I’ve read for years now, and I always had a great admiration towards the photography on the magazine’s pages and now on LightBox. I feel extremely lucky to be part of the team where everyone is so driven and talented. I just hope I can keep up!
My main role is to edit news photos and photo galleries for TIME.com, especially on international topics. For the most part, this involves getting pulling photos from the wires, and I’m most looking forward to the challenge of trying to make sure that we have the best photography available to accompany TIME.com articles, as well as making the highest quality photo galleries possible, with the aim of providing even better content for our readers. I’m quite the news junkie myself, so being able to immerse myself in the news and news photography daily makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. My favorite thing in the job so far has definitely been the realization of how much I like making photo galleries: the thought process that goes into choosing not only the visually but journalistically strongest photos of a given event, and considering how well will they go together and putting them into a sequence that makes sense. Sense to me anyway! Hope our readers will agree.
How do you see PhotojournalismLinks evolving and growing as part of TIME?
Anyone who has been following Photojournalism Links for a while should know that LightBox, since its inception, been one of my favorite places on the web. Once, I think I even wrote that I didn’t mean to always highlight LightBox content the most, but I couldn’t help it, since I just often found it the strongest. So in the light of that, it’s pretty amazing that I can actually bring Photojournalism Links to LightBox.
The ‘Links’ will obviously have a lot more eyes on it from now on, so that’s great. The site will also look better than the old one, which certainly isn’t a bad thing. The main core of PJL will remain the same I’m sure — sharing links to great photo essays, articles, interviews, et cetera. But I’m also looking forward to doing some extra content like photographer’s interviews. It’s all still a little up in the air, but I have no doubt that Photojournalism Links can only get stronger by having its home on LightBox and me being able to bounce off ideas with my TIME photo colleagues. I’m very excited about the future.
Three years ago, Dana Doron, then a doctor interning in Northern Israel, came across an elderly patient in the emergency room complaining of chest pains. As she was trained to do, Doron asked the woman to describe her symptoms. But instead of telling her what was wrong, the woman simply pointed to her forearm and asked her: “Do you know what this is?”
Doron instantly knew what it was: a tattooed number from the Auschwitz concentration camp. For over an hour, the patient spoke to Doron about her life, recounting her story to the doctor.
This patient’s story resonated with Doron, causing her to wonder what it felt like to go through life with a permanent, constant reminder of a horrific past. As the last people tattooed with these numbers begin to vanish from our world, Doron felt a strong responbility to communicate their stories and ensure that their legacies are carried on. For this, Doron approached her friend Uriel Sinai, an Israeli photojournalist, to work on a documentary project with her photographing the numbered survivors of Auschwitz.
The resulting portraits they made were striking and powerful – but it wasn’t until Sinai purchased a camera with video capabilities that the project evolved into something larger: Numbered, a moving film that tells stories from Auschwitz survivors and their family members. (the trailer for the film is available below and here)
In today’s world, the incredible stories of these last Holocaust survivors are often lost on younger generations. Sinai recounts a key moment for him during the creation of the film: “There was an 84-year-old man who went to a coffee shop in Turkey. The cashier noticed his number on his arm and asked if that was his phone number. He went on to say, ‘No, it’s from Auschwitz.’ Her response was, ‘Is that a night club?’” Says Sinai, “One thing I took from this project is that these people are truly vanishing.”
Numbered, by Dana Doron and Uriel Sinai, will be showcased Sunday January 20 at the 2013 New York Jewish Film Festival. For more information about the film and upcoming screenings visit their Facebook page or the Jewish Film Festival’s site here.
NUMBERED - Trailer from uriel sinai on Vimeo.
Policemen hold back the crowd in the rue des Clercs during the popular Ducasse de Mons, or Doudou, festival in Mons, located in French Belgium. (photo: Cédric Gerbehaye)
Belgian photographer Cédric Gerbehaye has spent his career documenting intra-country tensions around the world. In his most recent work he turns the camera back on his home country to delve into the very issues he has explored abroad for years.
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Wearing a Hood, the Operation, c. 1935 (photo: Manuel Álvarez Bravo)
A new exhibition, which includes rare and unseen images, celebrates the career of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, the experimental fine art photographer who relentlessly captured the history of Mexico’s evolving social and geopolitical atmosphere.
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Nick Scott practices his poses backstage at the first ever Wheelchair Pro Show in Houston. (photo: Lauren Fleishman)
Photographer Lauren Fleishman has spent the past year immersed in the world of wheelchair bodybuilding.
See more photos and watch the video here.
A gang member poses with a gun in Caracas. Some 50 homicides occur in the city each week. (photo: Oscar Castillo)
Venezuelan photographer Oscar Castillo has risked his life photographing the street gangs of Caracas for the past three years.
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Ingushetia, 2010 (photo: Davide Monteleone)
In his latest book, ‘Red Thistle,’ photographer Davide Monteleone documents the rhythm of life in the Caucasus.
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Mambo Carmen becomes possessed by the Loa Klemezin. 2010. (photo: Shannon Taggart)
Since 2005, photographer Shannon Taggart has documented practitioners of Vodou, the oft-misunderstood religion, in neighborhoods around Brooklyn, N.Y.
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From Jim Goldberg’s Rich and Poor
Photographer Jim Goldberg talks to LightBox about his process of revisiting, sharing and republishing two of his groundbreaking works, Rich and Poor and Raised by Wolves.
Read the story and see more photos here.
Ether, 2008-2011 (photo: Fazal Sheikh)
A photograph’s inability to fully penetrate its subject fascinates photographer Fazal Sheikh. His new project ‘Ether’ takes viewers to the banks of the Ganges and has opened at the Pace/MacGill gallery in New York.
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