Photojournalism Links Daily Digest: Sept. 25, 2014

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Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Moises Saman’s poetic photographs from northern Iraq, where Kurdish and ISIS-held territories collide. The pictures capture the long-contested region through the experience of peshmerga fighters, internally displaced Shi’ites, and Kurdish civilians, all of whom are now faced with living next to a new, militant enemy.


Moises Saman: On the Kurdish Front Against ISIS (The New Yorker)

Bulent Kilic: Refugees on the Syria-Turkey Border (Time.com) The Agence France-Presse photographer has done powerful work documenting the ISIS-fleeing Syrian Kurds.

John Stanmeyer: Refugee Flood Heightens Long-Standing Tensions Between Turks and Kurds (National Geographic News) More of Stanmeyer’s pictures from the Syria-Turkey border. An earlier set of images was featured here three days ago.

Zun Lee: Black Fathers, Present and Accountable (The New York Times Lens blog) Photographs that challenge the notion of absent black fathers.

On the Wall: How Photographers Envision Human Rights (American Photo) A new exhibition at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law, highlights social documentary photography by Sebastião Salgado, Gilles Peress, and Susan Meiselas.

Sebastião Salgado (National Public Radio) Yet another interview with Salgado, related to his Genesis exhibition in New York.

Royal Photographic Society announces winners of 2014 Awards (British Journal of Photography) Wrap-up of this year’s RPS honors, who included Magnum’s Steve McCurry and Chris Steele-Perkins.


Photojournalism Links is a compilation of the most interesting photojournalism found on the web, curated by Mikko Takkunen, Associate Photo Editor at TIME. Follow him on Twitter @photojournalism.


Barzan, Iraq. July 14, 2014.A Kurdish man stands next to an empty coffin that once contained the remains of a villager from Barzan, the hometown of President Masoud Barzani. In the late 1980's, Saddam Hussein's forces targeted Barzan, launching several attacks and massacres against its population as part of the Al Anfal campaign against the Kurds. Many of the victims were sent to southern Iraq, where they were executed or buried alive in mass graves. The remains of 603 Kurdish villagers from Barzan found in mass graves in southern Iraq have been returned and laid to rest in this memorial cemetery on a hill outside the village.(Photo by Moises Saman/MAGNUM)
A Kurdish man stands next to a coffin that once contained the remains of a villager from Barzan. In the late nineteen-eighties, Saddam Hussein’s forces targeted Barzan, as part of the genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds. Many of the victims were sent to southern Iraq, where they were executed or buried alive in mass graves. The remains of six hundred and three Kurds from Barzan have been retrieved and laid to rest in this memorial cemetery outside the village. July 14, 2014.Moises Saman—Magnum for The New Yorker
A Syrian Kurdish woman crosses the border between Syria and Turkey at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on Sept. 23, 2014.
A Syrian Kurdish woman crosses the border between Syria and Turkey at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on Sept. 23, 2014. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
The rooftop of their apartment building served as an ideal spot for Jerell Willis and his son Fidel to play hide-and-seek. New York. May 2013.
The rooftop of their apartment building served as an ideal spot for Jerell Willis and his son Fidel to play hide-and-seek. New York. May 2013.Zun Lee

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