Two things I’ve learned about the popular press in the last few months: you don’t get to pick your own headline, and you don’t want anyone thinking that the inevitable picture of the guy with a machine gun is the author photo (not the one above, although strictly speaking, if his face is hidden, it […]
New York magazine has a series of 29 images of and by war photographers, including Joao Silva, the South African photographer who lost his legs after stepping on a land mine in Afghanistan. Silva, is “… taking steps on his new prosthetic legs and hopes to be home in Johannesburg and working again soon, though likely […]
Around this time of the year The Economist publishes its annual publication, “The World in …” The 2010 edition just came out. The prize is not something to be proud of. This year’s prize, surprise, surprise, goes to an African country: Somalia, and claims it has good reasons:
