Teachers and school workers on strike rejoice after getting a favorable proposal from city mayor Edwardo Paes during a rally in front of the city hall in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 23, 2013. The city schools have been closed due to the strike since August 8. By Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images.
Alyssa Copelman highlights a talented photographer:
Lara Shipley became interested in doing a project in southern Arizona after moving to Phoenix in 2010. Shipley was raised in a small Midwestern town and sees this as the source of her interest in isolated and rural areas. Once she arrived in Arizona, Shipley began investigating the borderlands, spending time getting to know the various towns and their inhabitants and making as many as two trips a month from her home in Phoenix. She finds her subjects organically, meeting people during her visits.
Shipley’s stylistic approach is to use a blend of found and manipulated scenarios; some are staged, and others are shot as she finds them. This blending of actual, real-life documentary subjects with manipulated elements becomes interesting when applied to a region generally covered in a more straightforward documentary fashion.
(Caption for the above diptych: “Left: Terri, Twin of Klayla. Right: Klayla, Twin of Terri.”)
Nepalese man Bote Rai, 106, is pictured in his window seat of a Yeti Airlines aircraft after flying for the first time during his arrival at the Kathmandu airport on August 20, 2013. Airline officials said they sponsored Rai’s flight after reading in a local Nepali newspaper about his wish to fly on an aircraft. Rai, who has hearing problems and lives with his 75-year-old niece in remote Dhankuta district in eastern Nepal, will spend a day in Kathmandu and visit the Pahsupatinath Temple before flying out to Biratnagar, the nearest airport from his home. By Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images.
Freshmen at Colorado School of Mines, class of 2017, haul 10-pound rocks up to the university’s iconic mountainside M on Mt. Zion, August 19, 2013. The incoming students climb to the university’s M to give the landmark, and their classmates, a fresh coat of whitewash. By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images.
Photographer Anthony S. Karen has spent years documenting the Ku Klux Klan:
The series began in 2005, when Karen was allowed to attend and photograph a Klan event. The trust he gained at that and subsequent events eventually earned him unrestricted access. When asked in an interview with FotoEvidence how he managed to achieve this, he explained that in photojournalism, you get what you give:
I think a lot of the credibility I’ve earned stems from my basic philosophy that you need to give some of yourself in order to receive anything back. I spend time with people, I listen to what they have to say, and I treat each person as an individual. I don’t have to believe what they believe, but whenever I’m in someone’s space, I feel I’m obliged to observe without judgment.
(Photo of a bride with a KKK wedding veil and her fiancé by Anthony S. Karen)
For his series “City of Dreams”, photographer Nguan captured portraits of Hollywood hopefuls:
“The only strategy I had was to walk in the city with my camera and keep walking, in a state of heightened attentiveness,” he said. “It’s hard to say how I ‘cast’ the people in my photographs, as it’s more of an instinct than a skill. In general, I look for faces that can bear the weight of the hopes, anxieties, and narratives that I wish to project on their owners.”
(Photo by Nguan)
In this handout photo provided by Smithsonian, an olinguito, a new species of carnivore that has been newly discovered in the Andes Mountains, is seen in an undated photo. The olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) had been mistakenly identified for more than 100 years and is also the first carnivore species to be discovered in the American continents in 35 years. By Mark Gurney for Smithsonian via Getty Images. More on the mammal here.
A boy and his mother are seen at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighborhoods in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least 14 people and more than 200 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. By AFP/Getty Images.
A young seal named ‘Helene’ watches out a basket at the Seehundstation Norddeich on August 14, 2013 near Norddeich, Germany. The Seehundstation Norddeich is a facility for raising young seals who were separated from their mothers due to storms, disease or human disturbance and who would otherwise have little chance of survival. Volunteers collect about 90 young seals a year from the North Sea German coast and care for the pups until they weigh about 25 kg before releasing them back into the wild. Sponsors pay for the costs of caring for the seals and get to name them. By David Hecker/Getty Images.
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