Why Are You Here?
As a photojournalism lecturer, it has become quite customary that every time a natural disaster happens, I will get asked by at least one student,…
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One picture, one nation
On the morning of September 11, 2001, my phone was unusually busy.
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About A Boy
I have been reading different opinions about the Fukushima images shared by Keow Wee Loong and wondering why some people are so upset with him.
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A Letter To My Young Photographer Friend
Dear Amanda, Thinking about what we do and reflecting on our actions are two very rare attributes which I like.
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Is Photojournalism Still Alive?
In June 2002, as one of the four masters at the inaugural Asia-Europe Workshop for Young Photographers, I presented a talk on the state of…
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[ BOOK LIVES ] The Year In Pictures 2019 by The New York Times
Not quite a book unless you think of a book as any volume that deserves to be on every worth shelf.
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Photographing Grief
As a newspaper photographer, I took my fair share of pictures of people in grief.
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[ BOOK LIVES ] SideWalk by Jeff Mermelstein
SideWalk by Jeff Mermelstein was the winner of the sixth edition of the European Publishers Award for Photography* in 1999 and as a result, this monograph…
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Thank You, Photography, Thank You
Eager to become a better storyteller, I applied and was accepted at the Missouri Photo Workshop in 1991.