burnedshoes: Tim Hetherington remembered in film, News Report On April 20, 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed by mortar shells fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war. May his soul rest in peace. Two years after his death, Tim Hetherington is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Which Way is the Frontline From Here?, which sheds light on his motivations as a photojournalist and filmmaker, and his untimely death. “I don’t really care about photography. I’m interested in engaging people with ideas and views of the world,” Tim Hetherington once said. This sentence has defined the journalist’s career and is now the focus of Which Way is the Frontline From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, an HBO documentary directed by Sebastian Junger. (read more on BJP and TIME) IMAGE INFO#1: © Tim Hetherington, Jun 25, 2003, A member of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade exchanges a brief, tender word with his girlfriend during heavy fighting in Monrovia, Liberia#2: © Eddy Risch, 2008, Portrait of Tim Hetherington   » find more videos here «  |  » more war & conflict photography «
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burnedshoes: Tim Hetherington remembered in film, News Report On April 20, 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed by mortar shells fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war. May his soul rest in peace. Two years after his death, Tim Hetherington is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Which Way is the Frontline From Here?, which sheds light on his motivations as a photojournalist and filmmaker, and his untimely death. “I don’t really care about photography. I’m interested in engaging people with ideas and views of the world,” Tim Hetherington once said. This sentence has defined the journalist’s career and is now the focus of Which Way is the Frontline From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, an HBO documentary directed by Sebastian Junger. (read more on BJP and TIME) IMAGE INFO#1: © Tim Hetherington, Jun 25, 2003, A member of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade exchanges a brief, tender word with his girlfriend during heavy fighting in Monrovia, Liberia#2: © Eddy Risch, 2008, Portrait of Tim Hetherington   » find more videos here «  |  » more war & conflict photography «
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Tim Hetherington remembered in film, News Report

On April 20, 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed by mortar shells fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war. May his soul rest in peace.

Two years after his death, Tim Hetherington is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Which Way is the Frontline From Here?, which sheds light on his motivations as a photojournalist and filmmaker, and his untimely death.

“I don’t really care about photography. I’m interested in engaging people with ideas and views of the world,” Tim Hetherington once said. This sentence has defined the journalist’s career and is now the focus of Which Way is the Frontline From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, an HBO documentary directed by Sebastian Junger. (read more on BJP and TIME)

IMAGE INFO
#1: © Tim Hetherington, Jun 25, 2003, A member of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade exchanges a brief, tender word with his girlfriend during heavy fighting in Monrovia, Liberia
#2: © Eddy Risch, 2008, Portrait of Tim Hetherington

 
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timelightbox: Photograph by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz The Violence Against Women Act, which provides funding to help victims of domestic violence, is now up for re-authorization. Photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz’s photographs document one such violent incident — the kind that’s often kept private behind closed doors. See the work on LightBox here. so well done. 
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Photograph by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz

The Violence Against Women Act, which provides funding to help victims of domestic violence, is now up for re-authorization. Photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz’s photographs document one such violent incident — the kind that’s often kept private behind closed doors. See the work on LightBox here.

so well done. 

picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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picturedept: Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba “I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta “Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense. “The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West. The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie. In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma. I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are: 1. A gun can be bought for $18. 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year. 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people. 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil. And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point. It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not. Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control. In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small. It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life. — Alex Majoli
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Alex Majoli, Requiem in Samba

“I know I will die, I don’t know the day…I want to die; I want to die in a band batucada, in the good cadence of samba…”
—  Ataulfo Alves / Paulo Gesta

“Brazil is a rich nation full of poor people.”
— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

According to recent surveys by Brazilian police, murder rate in Brazil is now the highest in the world. Crime and violence have reached high levels in the whole country. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense.

“The longer you stay in Rio, the greater is your chance of a violent death.”
—  A person living in Rio, interviewed by BBC

If a soldier or a photojournalist heads off ‘to war,’ the question posed to him nowadays is ‘Which war?’ The obvious protagonists and headlines in the news are Iraq and Afghanistan; wars with accountable frontlines and with immediate political and economic implications in the West.

The only way we hear of smaller wars is if the media reveal a personal story or if the entertainment industry sells us a ticket and popcorn to a war movie.

In 2003 the film ‘City of God’ focused on Brazil’s favelas (poor shanty-towns) and their gun-toting leaders and children. The film made it fashionable to talk about or show Brazil in a fast, exciting, MTV style, but did little to solve Brazil’s dilemma.

I’ve been interested in Brazil’s ‘hidden’ internal war for the last ten years, living there for a period of two years in all, documenting its poor, its drug traffickers, its AIDS, its favelas, my friends, its victims, its dead. The facts and statistics from Brazil are:

  • 1. A gun can be bought for $18.
  • 2. 40,000 to 60,000 people (mostly between ages 19-25) are murdered each year.
  • 3. 800 favelas in Rio alone, run by criminal gangs, are home to 1.2 million people.
  • 4. An estimated 600,000 Brazilians are HIV positive. Approximately 57% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America and Caribbean are in Brazil.

And this is what I have observed while working daily in those streets: Weaponry in Brazil is the same as in any war zone, with automatics, tracer rounds and Bazookas. Like most wars, Good vs. Evil is moot. Violence occurs from class clashes, over drugs, over money… like anywhere, but in Brazil particular perversions occur. Police commit murders (acts ‘green lit’ by certain politicians), homeless children are killed while sleeping and most people who own a gun will use it at some point.

It is a country where children in the favelas become soldiers, killers, and are killed. The police who are not corrupt are known to refuse to patrol in some areas at night in fear of their lives. Seasoned cops claim the ‘difference between a dead rookie and a living veteran is the split second it takes to shoot a child,’ because you never know if he is armed or not.

Reporting on this issue can be deadly. Hard facts and truths are qualities that now belong to an almost extinct group in Brazil: the ‘Investigative Reporter.’ A recent victim was chopped into pieces and delivered to the doorstep of his news office. The ‘Silencing of the Witness’ deters many from the quest for truth, and thus the problem of violence continues without control.

In Brazil class distinctions are so huge. Poverty exists worldwide but here in the big cities the wealthy share the same street address as the poor. Face to face, the clash is loud, violent and unending. Yet, relative to the climate of international wars, this Brazilian war is seemingly silent and small.

It needs to be seen, documented. If a gun is cheap then so is a life.

— Alex Majoli

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reginasworld: Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.
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reginasworld: Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.
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reginasworld: Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.
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reginasworld: Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.
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Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.

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As the country celebrates LGBT Pride month throughout June, photographer Samantha Box aims to remind us that, in spite of tremendous progress, vulnerable LGBT youth still suffer in the shadows. On any given night in New York City, an estimated 4,000 LGBT youth roam the city without a home. As the country celebrates LGBT Pride month throughout June, Box aims to remind us that, in spite of tremendous progress, vulnerable LGBT youth still suffer in the shadows. According to a recent study by the Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services, an estimated 25-40% of homeless youth in New York City identify as gay, bisexual, and/or transgender. These young adults must navigate a social and cultural landscape punctuated by multiple layers of stigma in regards to race, gender, class and sexuality. Many suffer from a history of trauma. Most, if not all, have fled broken homes. Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/12/invisible/#ixzz1xe92OcIx
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As the country celebrates LGBT Pride month throughout June, photographer Samantha Box aims to remind us that, in spite of tremendous progress, vulnerable LGBT youth still suffer in the shadows.

On any given night in New York City, an estimated 4,000 LGBT youth roam the city without a home. As the country celebrates LGBT Pride month throughout June, Box aims to remind us that, in spite of tremendous progress, vulnerable LGBT youth still suffer in the shadows. According to a recent study by the Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services, an estimated 25-40% of homeless youth in New York City identify as gay, bisexual, and/or transgender. These young adults must navigate a social and cultural landscape punctuated by multiple layers of stigma in regards to race, gender, class and sexuality. Many suffer from a history of trauma. Most, if not all, have fled broken homes.


Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/12/invisible/#ixzz1xe92OcIx