photojournalism
AS A PHOTOJOURNALIST, I have witnessed firsthand how climate change is shaping life in Kashmir, from snowfalls and receding glaciers to scorching heat waves and erratic rainfall. I have seen rivers drying, houseboats sitting in the dried portion. [This June] when I reached the outskirts of the capital city, Srinagar, kids were playing, bathing, cooling themselves during an intense heat wave.
When you hear the phrase “the 99 percent,” many different images and ideas come to mind. Much of the mainstream media has depicted the Occupy Movement in a negative light and its participants as "dirty hippies," radicals, stoners or losers.
That’s why Brooklyn photographer Vanessa Bahmani decided to let the 99 percent portray themselves.
Last weekend I was at a family reunion where I had been invited to show pictures from my sabbatical in the Middle East last spring.
When President Obama was giving his speech in Cairo, I was just across the Red Sea in Aqaba, Jordan, and caught a glimpse on a corner store TV, the translation making it hard to hear his words.