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Photograph by Tomás Munita
Early this morning, Tomás Munita and Bryan Denton were named the 2013 recipients of the Chris Hondros Fund Awards, offering financial support to photographers who work in the same vein that Hondros did — with empathy, dedication and humility. See more of the winner’s work here.
Pictured: Porters wait for a sack of guano to carry on Guañape Norte Island off the coast of Peru. May 2008.
Photograph by Alessio Romenzi
Photojournalism Links: Curated by Mikko Takkunen, a collection of the best photojournalism around the web from the past two weeks.
Photograph by Tim Hetherington—Magnum
Nearly two years ago, photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed in Misrata, Libya. A new documentary on Hetherington premieres on HBO Apr. 18. Photographer Peter van Agtmael reflects on the memory and legacy of his colleagues — read more on LightBox here.
Pictured: Tim Hetherington’s last photograph. Taken April 20, 2011, in Misrata, Libya.
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.
Above: The opening LightBox spread of the April 1, 2013 issue of TIME. Photo by Stefan Wermuth—Reuters.
From Obama’s first Presidential visit to Israel and the Pope’s inauguration to a series of suicide bombings in Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia and the colorful Lathmar Holi festival in India, TIME presents the best images of the week.
TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev has traveled on assignment to Afghanistan and Iraq countless times in the past 15 years, documenting just about every aspect of America’s on-going wars. His most recent assignment this past January took him to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, where he photographed the U.S. preparations to bring home the men and material of war after more than a decade of fighting.
While editing Kozyrev’s take, TIME’s international picture editor Patrick Witty noticed a similarity between several of the photographs. Looking back through the archive of the photographer’s work, Witty discovered that Kozyrev had made similar images of soldiers awaiting takeoff in a C-17 Globemaster—the plane that will take them out of the combat zone and, eventually, back to the States—in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite being taken almost three years apart, the photographs are visually similar—a subtle reminder that despite changing names, locations and circumstances, the tradition of war itself is a patterned response with a long history.
Above: August 2010: U.S. soldiers from the Virginia National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment await takeoff as they head home from Camp Adder in Iraq. The unit mobilized in January 2010 and was originally scheduled to serve a 12-month tour of federal active duty.
Below: January 2013: Soldiers from the 101st Airborne and 1st Infantry Divisions await takeoff in the C-17 Globemaster that will take them from Bagram to Manas Airbase in Kyrgyzstan. There, they will await contracted flights home.
March 5, 2013. Mirna Guadelupe, 4, plays in front of her modest home with a doll found at the Tirabichi garbage dump in Nogales, Mexico. (Photo: John Moore—Getty Images)
From the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and elections in Kenya to violent protests in Bahrain and International Women’s Day around the world, TIME presents the best images of the week.
March 5, 2013. A jailed gang member hangs up laundry at the maximum security jail of Izalco in Sonsonate, El Salvador. (Photo: Ulises Rodriguez—Reuters)
From the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and elections in Kenya to violent protests in Bahrain and International Women’s Day around the world, TIME presents the best images of the week.
March 4, 2013. Vestments for the new Pope to be elected are displayed in the window of Italian ecclesiastical tailor Gammarelli in Rome. (Photo: Alberto Pizzoli—AFP/Getty Images)
From the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and elections in Kenya to violent protests in Bahrain and International Women’s Day around the world, TIME presents the best images of the week.
From riding the rails to working on diesel engines, Mike Brodie’s life in photography is anything but usual. His photographs of America’s hidden community of train-hoppers, featured in his first book by Twin Palms Publishers, take the audience off the beaten path too.
See more on LightBox: http://ti.me/13zEllI
