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Sentinels of the Arctic by Niccolò Bonfadini:
During winter, with temperatures ranging from -40 to -15, the trees in some areas of the Finnish Lapland get completely covered by snow and ice. This makes for a unique landscape, where everything is white and frozen as far as the eyes can see. That morning I slept in my tent to watch the sun rise from the top of a hill; an eerie mist was forming around the trees, enhancing the mysterious atmosphere.
Click-through for a photo slideshow of Timm Rautert’s work capturing the Amish and Hutterites, and for a description of his efforts “photographing-those-very-uncomfortable-with-being-photographed”: http://nyr.kr/KSyRFs
Fujifilm Says Goodbye to APS Film
Another one bites the dust. Fuji Film Imaging Systems, Inc. has officially announced the end of sales for Advanced Photo System (APS) films, production of which already stopped in July 2011. While it hasn’t been a popular format for a while now, the news still brings an analogue frown to our faces.
Dean Feller and Jesse Reese American Legion Post #205. Dover Burial Park. Dover, Ohio.
Jesse: I was drafted while I was still in high school, and did 35 missions as a tailgunner in World War II. I got my high school diploma at a base after I came back from Europe. Our post is in pretty bad shape. We have over 85 members on our roll, but we’re lucky if we can pull together the six able-bodied members we need to have a meeting. Our Commander is laid up after back surgery, our Second Vice Commander has heart problems, our Chaplain can hardly walk, and our Adjunct is also having problems with his legs. I’m still getting around pretty good for a guy who’s had four hip replacements, but none of us is getting any younger, and —I’m not going to lie to you— it’s tougher all the time to get new members. It started with Vietnam; the vets have their own organizations and like to pal around with guys their own age. It’s the same thing with the guys who were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who can blame them? Like everybody else we’re running short of money, but we’ve raised over $1200 this year, which isn’t bad, all things considered. The older you get, the more you find yourself in the territory of “all things considered.”
March 31, 2012. Children play with slingshots in Sirte, the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown. Sirte was one of the last loyalist strongholds in the nearly year-long war that ended the 42-year regime of Muammar Gaddafi, and it sustained more damage than any other Libyan city—in just a little over a month of heavy fighting. Many residents who admit to having been Gaddafi supporters now worry about what will become of them in the new Libya.
Abigail Hauslohner drove across Libya with photographer Yuri Kozyrev, and found a new country along the way. See more here.
Abandoned day care center. Dover, Ohio
In the middle of our longest stretch on the road in Ohio, we decided to duck into the town of Dover to see if we could find anything to shoot or anyone to talk to. As we drove down one abandoned street after another, we had the growing suspicion that something was wrong. “It’s like Three Mile Island,” one of us said out loud, and we all laughed. After fifteen or so minutes, though, the desolate vacuum feel of the place started to feel sort of oppressive and creepy. The town seemed to be utterly paralyzed. Finally, while trolling down an alley, we encountered a man and a little boy batting a badminton birdie back and forth across a clothes line. The boy was maybe eight years old and had a mohawk. We pulled over and I asked them where everyone was.
“There’s been a chemical spill,” the man said, and the boy raised his arms dramatically and added, “It was flaming ball of death. They closed the schools.”
Further investigation revealed that there had, in fact, been a spill of Dipropylene Glycol at the local Dover Chemical Company that resulted in the release of a vapor cloud that was visible for miles. Interstate 77 was closed for four hours in both directions between New Philadelphia and Bolivar, and an automatic phone alert was sent to area residents advising them to stay inside, close all windows, and turn off air conditioners.
The all clear was sounded at two p.m.
Dandelion seed heads in an English churchyard
Jon Lowenstein
Photographer Jon Lowenstein took this wonderful photo of last weekend’s anti-NATO demonstrations in Chicago. Lowenstein, who recently received a Guggenheim fellowship, has spent a decade photographing the people and neighborhoods in the South Side of Chicago. Last month, on assignment for Newsweek/Daily Beast, he photographed South Side neighborhoods hit by a dramatic rise in crime and gang violence. View that work here. And you can see many more of Jon’s photographs here.
Field Pattern | Photo by Richard Flint
