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by Molly McCall
Thu, February 22, 2007, 3:00 am PST

The television drama "M*A*S*H" ran to hundreds of episodes and finished off with the most watched finale in American TV history. Now, an "interactive essay" from the Magnum Photo Agency uses images from the series to frame a slideshow of two military medical units operating in Iraq today. Grainy, black-and-white shots of Klinger, Hawkeye, and Radar contrast with color photographs of U.S. soldiers picking through rubble, blue-smocked military doctors bending over examination tables, Iraqi men on their knees, and uniformed men and women looking dead exhausted. Like the show, some sections reveal the unexpected aspects of life outside the military ER: men digging in to a bag of Doritos, smoking a cigar, laughing. But then the music shifts, the image clouds, and we're back in the Humvees, on conflict-torn streets, and in an all-too real war.
by Jill Robinson
Sun, October 22, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

Documentary images often influence how we see the world and show us what a place feels like. Some photographs we digest quickly with our news; others stay with us for decades. Blueeyes Magazine seeks to celebrate documentary still photography and to "give a home to projects that examine social, political, and environmental issues around the world." In the magazine's current issue, lucky number 13, the camera focuses on a sense of place. Follow Jon Lowenstein through the pocket towns of Chicago's South Side. Peek into the traditional lifestyle of Maramures, Romania with Davin Ellicson. Join Michael Brown on a tour of an "emerging, capitalistic China." And if you think that only exotic subjects can be interesting, view Juli Leonard's "spontaneous gifts of light and moment"—subjects that anyone can find in their own place on Earth.
Mon, July 31, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

If you want to know the real living history of a place, sit down for a cup of coffee and a smoke with a local photojournalist. That's the lesson we learned digging into Al Kaplan's blog, The Price of Silver. The title refers to silver used in film, but it could well hint at Kaplan's treasure trove of Miami tales. Kaplan worked as a photojournalist for Miami papers for 50 years, and both the visual and verbal lore he shares with readers is worth its weight in precious metals. If Miami, particularly in the '60s and '70s, holds your interest at all (or ultra wide-angle self-portraits, for that matter) Al Kaplan has plenty to share with you and his many other fans.
by Gordon Hurd
Mon, May 01, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

As much as award-winning photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally's web site is about a drug-infested Brooklyn neighborhood; as much as it shows kids with guns and broken families on drugs; and as much as it zooms in on up-and-coming rapper Big Trigg to reveal "what the streets done did to that kid"; Kenneally's site is also a moving, graphic, and audible testament to her photographic and journalistic skills. Kenneally's work does what all journalism should do: It tells real stories within a small, but dense space and tells it like it is, unapologetically, yet sympathetically. Many of us may not want to know what it's really like to live in poverty, in jail, on drugs, or without our loved ones, but with gripping sites such as Kenneally's, we can at least try to understand.
by Molly McCall
Wed, April 26, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

Twenty years ago today, the world's worst nuclear disaster blew the roof off the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. For many people, the event seems far off, and much has changed in the decades since. But for those who live in Chernobyl and other former Soviet towns, afflictions from nuclear accidents and experiments remain an intimate part of their lives. Since 1999, photographer Robert Knoth and reporter Antoinette De Jong have traveled through the Ukraine, Urals, Kazakhstan, and Siberia to capture, in searing black-and-white portraits, the way that nuclear radiation has forever altered the humans who face it. Among those photographed are a six-year-old child frozen in a three-year-old's body, a 14-year-old boy with sarcoma of the prostate gland, two sisters with brain tumors, and vast sweeping skies that seem to belie the contamination below.


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