Tag: photographer
Reporting from a war – SVT Jönköping’s photographer in Ukraine
Going to a war zone to report home to Sweden requires careful planning where security work is of the utmost importance. But even there, aircraft alarms and artillery fire become…
The nature photographer took the eerie picture: “What the hell”
Nature photographer Robert Ahrenhold, known by his alias Shanti Lfe, would photograph seagulls. But what he caught on film – made him call the police.– What the hell?! I called…
Deceased culture photographer Anna van Kooij honored with an exhibition in the Neude library
The library staff member sees that the exhibition is popular with visitors. A book in which comments could be left filled up so quickly that a second one has already…
Retrospective Eliott Erwitt, a major photographer who claimed to be an amateur
A mythical figure of the very famous Magnum agency, which he chaired in the 1960s, Eliott Erwitt, 94 years old today, is considered one of the major photographers of the…
“Find yourself”: a humanist score by Willy Ronis, the musician turned photographer
The photographic destiny of Willy Ronis has played out in very few things. Born in Paris in 1910 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe, he was introduced…
Smallpox, teaspoons and a bird’s nest: photographer explores family history in images
One was poisoned, another was researching a smallpox vaccine, yet another was a supporter of an Indian guru. Photographer Cara Louwman comes from a colorful family and has delved into…
the resistance fighter Adolfo Kaminsky, photographer and king of forgers, buried in Paris
The photographer Adolfo Kaminsky, a man of a thousand lives who was the “king of false papers” in the service of the Resistance and then of the anti-colonial movements, is…
Funeral attendant Bunschoten convicted of hindering photographer: ‘I had to choose between two evils’
Wrong pills The incident between Aart K. and photographer Caspar Huurdeman took place on November 4, 2021 against the background of two mysterious deaths in Bunschoten. Stories quickly circulated in…
The street photographer waited for the perfect moment: “He was almost like a fly on the wall”
He waited for the right moment and then he snapped a picture. Ralph Nykvist’s pictures capture everyday life in Helsingborg, London, Paris and other places in the world. – Ralph…
The Bâmiyân cliff after its destruction seen by the photographer Pascal Convert
Pascal Convert photographed the Bâmiyân cliff in Afghanistan, 15 years after the destruction of the monumental Buddhas by the Taliban. His photos are published today in a very beautiful book…