the eyes say it all

From Carol Allen Storey’s “Rough Living” series taken in Rwenzorie Mountain Kingdom, Uganda.

ROUGH LIVING SERIES
Carol Allen Storey’s website

Metamorphosis

This image is from the series Metamorphosis: Images from the Arab World by Michael Robinson Chávez, who is currently working for The Los Angeles Times. His photo-journalistic biography is more than impressive while his images are completely disturbing and oh so powerful! I am in absolute awe of his work.

You need to see it to believe it! He is GOOD!

Michael Robinson Chávez’s website

‘orange love’ by margré mijer

Taken at the Taj Mahal the viewer gets a slight glimpse of public affection, which is not common behaviour in India.

This is such a beautiful, vibrant image. I get a sense of buoyancy as the couple stride down the stairs, perhaps it’s because of the fleeting sari the woman wears. There’s a beautiful connection between the two and the orange colour is outstanding. The subtle detail in this moment of affection, captured at the perfect time, lets us make our own reading of the people in the shot. Sometimes giving less information lets the viewer indulge in the image on a greater level. It activates the imagination and we can devise our own story. ‘Orange Love’ does this beautifully.

See margré mijer Flickr here
There’s some incredible travel photo shots!

from the series “Saddam Is Here” – Jamal Penjweny

Jamal Penjweny’s photojournalism is outstanding! His home is Iraq, which is where he takes pretty much all of his images. He provides such an honest and confronting perspective on Iraqi life. This series, “Saddam Is Here” has particularly struck me as they’re staged images (unlike the impromptu nature of the rest of Penweny’s work) which communicate how obsessed Iraq still is with Saddam Hussein. I find the below conflicts both fascinating and terrifying.

This is direct from the ‘Saddam Is Here’ gallery, speaks for itself really:
They support him, they cheered him up, they beautified his cruelty and crimes and they simply put him in power to be a godfather of Iraq for good, but his execution order took place a few years ago. Saddam is here. Iraqi society can not forget him even after his death because some of us still love him and the rest are still afraid of him. People who love him say, because he was handsome, powerful and aggressive. Saddam in the meantime was generous and cruel, he was a good father and he was a criminal. He made Iraqi people to kill and to be killed in the same time. His shadow is still following Iraqi society everywhere.

See the whole ‘Saddam Is Here’ series here
And you have to see more of Jamal Penweny’s work here!

“Life As An Amputee”

This powerful photograph was taken Sunday November 13, 2005 in Freetown, Sierra Leone by Greek photojournalist, Yannis Kontos. In his portfolio the description states:

Young Abu, 7, buttons his father’s collar in the family’s shelter in the amputee camp, northwest of Freetown on November 13, 2005. Abu Bakarr Kargbo, 31, was one of the thousands of amputees afflicted by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) atrocities during the civil war that devastated Sierra Leone from 1991 till 2002.

I can’t help but feel moved by everything about this shot, the intimacy, the context, the expressions, the care and the silence. I am captivated by the eyes, particularly the father’s. A genuine and simple moment of human interaction is laid absolutely bare for the viewer, but it is also charged with so much emotion.

http://www.yanniskontos.com/