Naoya Hatakeyama, Rikuzentakata, July 2004 © Naoya Hatakeyama Naoya Hatakeyama, Rikuzentakata, April 2011 © Naoya Hatakeyama Watching the BBC News in the aftermath of the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami on the east coast of Japan, I vividly remember the foreign correspondent reporting from a town with an unusual name: Rikuzentakata. Little did I know then…
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The most evocative photograph to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – a photograph meanwhile reproduced all over the world – captures Barack Obama hugging Donna Vanzant, a woman from Brigantine, New Jersey, who lost her livelihood in the disaster. Several different images of that encounter are in circulation,…
Fatma Bucak, Omne Muem, Nihil Muem II, 2012. Image copyright belongs to the artist. Edited by the London based photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg, Seeing For Others brings together the work of 21 individuals studying photography at the Royal College of Art between 2011 and 2012. The concept for the book is at once simple yet…