I'm not sure I even count as a photographer in the Pacific Northwest if I haven't posted any pictures from a ferry. Here's a few from a recent back-and-forth across Puget Sound for an assignment on an exceptionally clear day a couple weeks back.
Activestills Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel by Vered Maimon & Shiraz Grinbaum, 2016
This book is a joint contemplation about the body of
work produced by the Activestills photography collective
from its inception in 2005 up to 2016.
It includes the perspectives of activists, journalists,
historians and theoreticians of photography, and the
collective’s members themselves.
A couple weeks ago I followed along as volunteers from the disaster relief organization Team Rubicon removed burnable material from Zintel Canyon in Kennewick, Washington, as part of an effort to mitigate wildfires in the area. Kennewick has a higher fire risk than 92% of U.S. communities. Team Rubicon was started by a US Marine Corps veteran in 2010, traveling to Haiti after that year's devastating earthquake and has grown to include more than 160,000 volunteers helping respond to or mitigate disasters both in the US and internationally. Photographed for Crosscut/CascadePBS ( @cascadepbs ).
Thanks to Genna for taking the pitch and to Mai for her reporting on the piece, published this week on the Cascade PBS website.
(took a little break from posting over the past few weeks, but hopefully I'll get back into the regular swing of things)
April 28, 2024
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
A protest against the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially concerning women's rights and execution penalties against political prisoners.
If you have time, this one is a testimony from photojournalists in Gaza. They live there. Foreign journalists are not allowed in by Israel. Israelis don't want to be documented committing war crimes and genocide. But local photojournalists will do it, often at the cost of their own life and their family's.
Palestinian journalist Motaz Azaiza features on Time’s 100 most influential people of 2024
Independent Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza was named one of the ‘100 Most Influential People’ of 2024 by Time magazine on Wednesday for acting as the “world’s eyes and ears” during the ongoing Israeli military offensive that has decimated the Gaza Strip.
“This photo was taken by Nikita Teryoshin. It shows a VIP reception at a Swedish booth at an arms fair in Kielce, Poland, in 2016. Teryoshin spent eight years traveling to defense shows worldwide, capturing the surreal ways weapons are bought and sold. (…)
In the video, we break down the satire of this and other photos by Teryoshin and how the lampooning is even weightier because these arms expos evade public radar.” [Reading the Pictures]
Volunteers with International Nutritional Sustainable Partners unloaded, sorted, and distributed fresh food including vegetables, butter, and fruit, at a drive-thru food distribution event held in Redmond, Washington, a couple weeks ago. Food prices are still up more than 25% than what they cost before the COVID-19 pandemic, five points higher than other consumer prices. INSP has been distributing food in the region since six days after the spring 2020 lockdown and now aims to hold similar events monthly. On this day in Redmond, the group estimates that more than 1400 people received some of this food. INSP uses donated money to purchase food to distribute from local farmers as much as possible, sometimes handing out food that has been picked the previous day on a nearby farm. Photographed for Bloomberg.
New photo-shoot yesterday, for Alamy, a pre-release screening of the film "Anna" about slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, at National Press Club. Executive producer Sean Penn (shown here) and producer Mark Maxey introduced the film, and a panel of reporter-author Bob Woodward, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and former CIA director John Brennan discussed what it all means.
I imagine a future where children play on mountains of waste, metal, and circuitry, while toxic fumes waft through flesh and bone, rationalised by innovation and cheap labour. But then I read articles like this and realise we're already there.
In photos: Bleak reality of the e-waste industry in Delhi's Seelampur...
The Narwhal snags 3 National Newspaper Awards nominations
The National Newspaper Awards celebrate some of the best journalism in Canada. This year, our work is in the running in three categories https://thenarwhal.ca/national-newspaper-awards-nominations-2024/
Solidarity with Search the Landfills
March 8, 2024
On International Women's Day, a rally in solidarity with Camp Morgan/Mercedes as well as human trafficking in Edmonton.
When you get down to the #deliveroo driver's shelter in Victoria Park #Bristol, you'll appreciate what the #gigeconomy's exploration of #workers looks like....
Once you've read this I'm sure you will not begrudge me using the term #classwar!
Before the current war started, it has been shown that over the past 22 years, 20 journalists have been killed by Israel Defence Forces (#IDF) and that no one has been held accountable for any of those deaths.
I loved our Nikkormats. Reliable enough to cover wars or riots, heavy and stout enough to swing as a self-defense weapon, then continue on the job because they still worked. 👍
Let's take a look at the best Photography of 2023, as published by the world's news organizations. I haven't seen a big list like this posted elsewhere else yet, so here we go, starting with:
After record rain fall during an atmospheric river weather event earlier this week, the Snoqualmie River flooded roads and farmland in rural King County south of Duvall, Washington, yesterday.