PJL: March 2013

March 25, 2013 4:00 AM EDT

Features and Essays

Eugene Richards: The New Oil Landscape (The National Geographic magazine) The fracking frenzy in North Dakota has boosted the U.S. fuel supply—but at what cost?

Alex Webb: The Ambiguous Island (The New York Times) Cuba

Alex Webb: Mahogany’s Last Stand (NGM) Illegal logging has all but wiped out Peru’s mahogany. Loggers are turning their chain saws on lesser known species critical to the health of the rain forest.

Evgenia Arbugaeva: Mammoth Tusk Hunters (NGM) Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks.

Peter van Agtmael: The Resisters (The New York Times Magazine) A village in West Bank testing limits of unarmed resistance

Lynsey Addario: Syrian Refugees (Feb.) | Syrian Refugees (March) (The New York Times) Little Relief in North Syria, Where Need Is Acute

Lynsey Addario: Syrian Civilians (NYT) Syrian Civilians, Empowering Themselves

Brian Sokol: The Most Important Thing (Panos Pictures) The most important thing Syrian refugees were able to take with them from home.

Bryan Denton: The Battle Over Syria (NYT)

Bryan Denton: For Shelter-Seeking Syrians, Home Is a Cave (NYT)

Alessio Romenzi: Female Syrian Fighter (Paris Match L’instant)

Guillem Vaille: Syrie. L’hiver du Kurdistan (Paris Match L’instant)

Yuri Kozyrev: America’s Long Withdrawal from Afghanistan (LightBox)

Bryan Denton: Transition in Afghanistan (NYT)

Hossein Fatemi: Afghanistan: A Troubled Legacy (Panos)

Jan Grarup: Last Danish Soldiers in Helmand (Politiken) Afghanistan

handgun — .357 Magnum revolverJerome Delay / AP

Jerome Delay: Mali’s Invisible War (LightBox)

Joe Penney: Imaging Mali (Reuters Full Focus)

Kim Badawi: Chinese in Egypt: The Migratory Silk Road (Reportage by Getty Images)

Tyler Hicks: Kenya’s Rift Valley, Five Years After Election Violence (NYT)

Samuel James: Illicit Oil Industry in the Niger Delta (Lens blog)

Pierre Terdjman: Tunisie, le printemps fané (Paris Match L’instant)

Sarah Elliott: The Widows of Abu Salim Prison (Reportage) Libya

Kaet Holt: Defending Goma (zReportage)

Oded Balilty: Waiting for a new pope (The Guardian)

Christopher Morris: Waiting for the New Pope (LightBox)

Christopher Morris: Conclave: A Short Film (LightBox)

Yuri Kozyrev: Bolshoi Ballet (LightBox)

Misha Friedman: Drama at the Bolshoi (Photo Booth)

Guillaume Herbaut: Bolschoi (Institute)

Sergey Ponomarev: Cossacks Expand Their Role in Russian Life (NYT)

Q. Sakamaki: Japan: Two Years After (Photo Booth)

David Chancellor: Rhino Protection (Institute)

Massimo Vitali: Brazil (NYT Magazine) Related article on the magazine’s 6th Floor blog

Christopher Anderson: Capitolio (El Mundo)

Jerome Sessini: Hugo Chavez Tribute (Magnum Photos)

Ed Kashi: Nicaragua (New Yorker Photo Booth)

Gustav Arvidsson: Land and Loss in Colombia (Lens blog)

Kim Badawi: Aldeia Maracanã (Reportage) Brazil

Miquel Dewever-Plana: Guatemala (Agence VU) Trial of a genocide

Gary Knight: On the frontlines: Start of the Iraq War (CNN Photo Photo blog)

Thorne Anderson: The Months Before The Iraq War (CNN Photo Photo blog)

Alexandra Boulat: Iraq (Paris Match L’instant photo blog)

Sara Naomi Lewkowicz: A Portrait of Domestic Violence (LightBox) Photographer as Witness | Related: video

Mike Brodie: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (LightBox) On Paris Match L’instant

Doug Dubois: The Lingering Light of Childhood (LightBox) Irish youth

Jocelyn Lee: Minor Stories (Institute)

Hiroyuki Ito: One Cat, Three Lives (Lens blog)

Kadir van Lohuizen: California’s ‘Little Baghdad’ (CNN Photo blog)

John Moore: Detained, Deported and Determined (The New York Times Lens blog)

John Moore: The Newest and Youngest Americans (Lens blog)

Kirsten Luce: Same Southern Border, Varied Views (NYT) Images of the United States’ southern border

Matt Eich: Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup (Photo Booth)

Jim Urquhart: Mars on Earth (TIME) A Look at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah

Gaia Squarci: Guided by Blindness (Lens blog) Photos of the visually impaired

Amy Lombard: Love and Sliders: Valentine’s Day at White Castle (TIME)

Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Return to River Town (NGM) In 1996 a Peace Corps volunteer arrived in Fuling, a sleepy town on the Yangtze, to teach English. He went back recently to find the landscape—and his former students—transformed.

Matthew Niederhauser: Counterfeit Paradises (Institute) China

Mark Leong: Welcome to Wuwucun, a Village in the City (China File) China

Noriko Hayashi: Unholy Matrimony (Panos Pictures) Kyrgyzstan

Mikel Aristregi: Way Down and Out in Ulan Bator (Lens blog) Mongolia

James Nachtwey: Drug-Resistant TB in India (LightBox)

Daniel Berehulak: The Kumbh Mela in 2013 (LightBox)

Kuni Takahashi: India’s Child Labor Problem (NYT)

Munem Wasif: Shahbag Square (Agence VU) Bangladesh – Protests against war crimes

Allison Shelley: In Hindu Ritual, Nepali Women Are Banished Once A Month (NPR)

Frédéric Lecloux: Daily Epiphanies (Agence VU) Nepal

Pari Dukovic: Burma Wave (New Yorker Photo Booth)

Gratiane de Moustier: Domestic Workers in Indonesia (Lens blog)

Daniel Etter: Fortress Europe (Zeit) Fortress Europe is a photographic journey along the European Union’s external borders, telling the stories of undocumented migrants.

Alexandros Demetriades: Divided Cyprus (Lens blog)

George Georgiou: Turkey’s Changing Landscape (CNN Photo blog)

Riverboom: Like a Turk (Institute)

Ivor Prickett: Kurdistan – 10 Years On (Panos Pictures)

Amos Chapple: Inside Iran (The Boston Globe Big Picture blog)

Simon Norfolk: Failed Ambitions: Spain’s Economic Collapse (Photo Booth)

Simon Norfolk: God’s Light Show (The New York Times Magazine)

Jim Naughten: Conflict and Costume in Namibia (LightBox) Also on The Guardian here

George Steinmetz: Desert Air (MSNBC)

Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness (Lens blog) The Disappearance of Darkness

René Burri: Impossible Réminiscences (Paris Match L’instant photo blog)

Annie Ling: Ousted by the City, Tenants Seek a Home (Lens blog)

Nadia Shira Cohen and Paulo Siqueira: Where Home Is an Elusive Fantasy (Lens blog)

Louis Quail: The Desk Job (Wired Raw File photo blog)

Robin Schwartz: Amelia and the Animals (Photo Booth)

Articles

A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them Most (LightBox)

Photographers’ notebook: Iraq war (Reuters Full Focus)

Photographers’ Oral History of the Iraq War (Lens blog)

The 10 Most Iconic Images from Iraq (Foreign Policy)

Ten Years On: Photojournalists on War (Photo Booth)

NOOR: Covering Iraq (NOOR website)

10th Anniversary of The Start of the Iraq War (Magnum Photos)

Iraq, Ten Years Ago and Now (The New Yorker)

The Iraq War, 10 years on (CNN)

War in Iraq — a look back 10 years later (Los Angeles Times Framed photo blog)

Their War at Home : Iraqi War Photographers (The New York Times)

Faces of war: hear the stories behind iconic images of Iraq conflict (Guardian)

Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency (The Atlantic)

Chip Somodevilla’s Haunting Iraq War Anniversary Photo from Arlington (BagNewsNotes)

Bill Neely: Fred Nérac, my ITN colleague, disappeared in a warzone. The joke we shared still haunts me (The Observer)

Syria: the story behind one of the most shocking images of the war (Guardian)

Behind the Picture: Aleppo’s River of Death (LightBox)

Richard Engel Reveals a Diary of His Syrian Kidnapping—and How His Captors Terrorized Their Victims (Vanity Fair)

Love letter to photographer Remi Ochlik killed in Syria (BBC) Audio | A Love Letter from Emilie Blachère to Rémi Ochlik (La Lettre de la Photographie)

French photographer Olivier Voisin dies in Syria (RFI English)

Photographer Olivier Voisin killed in Syria spoke of adrenaline (AP Big Story blog)

To make freelancing safer, young foreign journalists need more support and less sneering (The Independent)

Sheika al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani TIME 100 — Natalie Naccache—The New York Times/Redux

“A Day Without News?”: Raising Awareness of the Perils of Reporting (LightBox)

Worldwide campaign launched to support conflict photographers and journalists (British Journal of Photography)

Killing the messenger, when journalists become targets (Amanpour blog on CNN)

The Missing Journalists of Syria’s War: The Struggle to Save Those Who Bear Witness (TIME)

It’s More Dangerous Than Ever to Be a Female War Reporter (The Atlantic)

It’s Tough to be a Reporter in a War Zone, for Both Men and Women (The Atlantic)

Running Toward Danger, Syria’s Citizens Become Journalists (Committee to Protect Journalists)

Syrian Conflict Transforms Woman From English Teacher into War Photographer (PetaPixel)

War & Fashion (CNN)

The Magnificent One: Philip Jones Griffiths (Donna Ferrato’s Vimeo)

Arrivals and Departures : Behind the scenes with Magnum Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol (Youtube)

Covering The Human Toll of Europe’s Economic Statistics (Lens blog)

National Geographic, Unpublished (The Washington Post) Unpublished photographs from National Geographic assignments

Documentary Chris Hondros planned (Greek America) Documentary’s website

Finding Vivian Maier – Official Movie Trailer (Youtube)

Serena Williams TIME 100 — Paola Kudacki for TIME

At Close Proximity With War and Truth (Huffington Post) Alan Huffman’s Tim Hetherington biography ‘Here I Am’ reviewed

War photographer Tim Hetherington felt he had pushed his luck on day he died (The Telegraph)

Photo exhibit is witness to wars (Los Angeles Times) Photographers with works in a traveling exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles called ‘War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ talk about the images and life on the frontlines.

At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston (The Telegraph)

‘In China, a Vast Chasm Between the Rich and the Rest’ by Sim Chi Yin (NYT)

To See the World: Marc Riboud’s Eye of the Traveler (LightBox)

A Second Look: Chim’s Children of War (LightBox) Chim: A Vivid Retrospective of Europe (Lens blog)

Elvis in the Beginning: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer (LightBox)

Happy 80th Birthday, Nina Simone: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer (LightBox)

Gordon Parks’s Harlem Family Revisited (Lens blog)

A Profound Beauty: Peter Hujar’s Timeless Portraits (LightBox)

Massif Management: Surf Photographers (Photo Booth)

Saving Face: The Portraits of Zanele Muholi (LightBox)

A Mexican Photographer, Overshadowed but Not Outdone (Lens Blog)

Here Far Away: The Visual Fables of Pentti Sammallahti (LightBox)