The Best of Photography

Andrew Quilty

Andrew Quilty’s photography career began in Sydney, in the year 2000, on the day his application to a university photo elective was rejected. He quit, and set off around Australia with a surfboard and a Nikon F3 that his uncle—also a photographer—had passed down.

Fate further intervened a week into the trip when his van was broken into. Everything but his well-hidden camera, and surfboard, which he was riding at the time, was stolen.

30,000KM later, he enrolled in the Sydney Institute of TAFE’s Photography program, finishing at the top of his class in 2004.

He was given an informal internship at Fairfax Media which evolved into full-time employment. There, Quilty found himself surrounded by some of Australia’s most outstanding photographers. They reshaped his worldview and set him on a course that continues to inspire his work today.

He left Fairfax in 2010 and freelanced from Sydney before relocating to New York City in 2012. But it was during a trip to Afghanistan and the Middle East, in 2013, that he first discovered bonafide purpose and fulfilment in his photography.

He has been based in Kabul, Afghanistan ever since.

His work in Afghanistan has been published worldwide and garnered accolades including, in 2019, a World Press Photo, a Picture of the Year International award of excellence in the category of Photographer of the Year (POYI), and prior to that, a George Polk Award, three POYI awards, a Sony World Photography award and six Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley, the highest honour in Australian journalism. In 2016, a selection of his work from Afghanistan was exhibited at the Visa pour L’Image Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France.

He has travelled to two thirds of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces and continues to document the country through pictures and, increasingly, the written word.

He doesn’t usually refer to himself in the third person.

Horsemen, ‘chapandaz’, vie for the carcass of a dead calf in Afghanistan’s national sport, Buzkashi. Panjshir Province, January 2014. — Andrew Quilty

Watching the Vice President depart by helicopter from the site of a landslide—which can be seen in the background—that buried as many as 300 homes and hundreds of residents 24 hours prior. Badakhshan Province, May, 2014. — Andrew Quilty

Gul Ahmad, an infant boy suffering from acute malnutrition, is covered by his mother's scarf while being treated in the therapeutic feeding centre at Bost Hospital. Malnutrition, according to staff of Médecins Sans Frontières, who administer the hospital, is a chronic problem in Afghanistan. In most cases it is not malnutrition that sees children admitted to hospital but an illness that has been brought on by the child's inability to fight off infection because its body is so degraded of vital nutrients. Helmand Province, April, 2015. — Andrew Quilty

A patient of Médecines Sans Frontières’ Kunduz Trauma Centre, later identified as 43-year-old husband and father of four, Baynazar Mohammad Nazar, lays dead a week after an American AC-130 gunship destroyed the hospital, mistaking it for a Taliban command centre at the time the militants had taken control of the city from the Afghan government, while he was undergoing an operation. Kunduz Province, October, 2015. — Andrew Quilty

Members of a female Community-Based Savings Group, implemented to enable more independence for women, leave a meeting in the village of Chasnood Bala, north of Shugnan. Badakhshan Province, May, 2015. — Andrew Quilty

An Afghan National Army soldier carries another soldier after he was wounded by the back-blast of an ANA rocket propelled grenade during the battle to retake the City of Kunduz after the Taliban overran it a week prior. It was the first city to fall to the group since 2001. Kunduz Province, October, 2015. — Andrew Quilty

Afghan National and Local Police inside a compound on the frontline in Chahr-i Anjir. A Taliban position is visible less than 100 metres away. Two weeks later, the compound was ambushed and two policemen killed. Helmand Province, April, 2016. — Andrew Quilty

Victims lie dead and severely wounded at the site of a bomb that had been disguised inside an ambulance and detonated in an area of small businesses and a hospital in central Kabul. 103 were killed and more than 150 wounded by the bomb for which the Taliban claimed responsibility. Kabul, January, 2018. — Andrew Quilty

CPL MP Pedro Pantoja

Pedro Pantoja (Rio de Janeiro, December 17, 1984) is a Brazilian military photographer.
At the age of 20, Pedro Pantoja joined photojournalism, excelling in photographing urban conflicts for the newspaper Povo do Rio, reaching the position of photo editor, where he remained until 2013.
In 2007, Pedro Pantoja taught photojournalism at one of Brazil’s leading vocational schools. In 2010, he volunteered on social projects to teach photography to underprivileged youth and adults. In 2013, he became a military man, where he is currently the Corporal of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State, which specializes in the recording of images in areas of combat by drug traffickers. In the military area, he studied Crisis Management involving hostages and Tactical Applications in Special Operations Command. In his risky work, Pedro Pantoja has developed unique techniques appropriate for operational photographic work in the midst of urban wars in Rio de Janeiro’s slums.

SEVERINO SILVA

Severino Silva was born on August 20, 1958 in Pirpirituba, interior of Paraíba, married to a carioca who is the mother of his three children. At the age of 10 he comes to Rio de Janeiro with his mother, grandmother and a sister. He was a child who loved to draw, but his passion for photography begins when he received an old Kodak126 as a gift, but was very distressed, the laboratory only delivered the photographs after three days, for him almost an eternity. At sixteen he gets a job at the newspaper O Globo as a continuum and then goes to Photomechanics, but his dream was to be a photographer. He then goes on to take several photography courses, including the High School of Arts and Crafts and the Senac courses. Starts working as a freelance photographer for O Globo neighborhood newspapers. Then he went to O Fluminense, People of Rio, The News and The Day, where he still lives today. For those who are close to us, above all, he is a humanist who, in his office, is not limited to extolling the beauties of our city, but immerses himself in the day by day of the dispossessed with their difficulties, their challenges, their ills and through their camera makes a unfiltered record or photoshop of the daily violence that torments us all.

In September 1992, in the newspaper O Povo do Rio, when he discovered a complaint that in Parque Fluminense, in Duque de Caxias, they had “dispatched” a human head on a soccer field, Severino may have taken the most controversial picture of his career. and which provoked heated debates about the role of the press in trivializing urban violence, Severino followed the experts’ work and proved it to be true. On Team Rodo’s soccer field, a severed man’s head was placed between two candles and children played soccer, having fun as if nothing had happened. This photograph gained international prominence, traveled the world, was republished by the French magazine Photo and was featured in a debate at the Union of Journalists during the “Visual Quartas Project” in which Severino and Léo Corrêa designed their work focusing on Urban Violence.

Holder of several national and international awards such as the “Tim Lopes Award” 2014 and the “Nikon Award” 1992 has exhibited his work in Brazil, Denmark and Germany. Severino Silva was named by The Guardian newspaper as one of the best Brazilian photojournalists today.

A imagem pode conter: 1 pessoa, em pÃ© e atividades ao ar livre — Severino Silva

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A imagem pode conter: uma ou mais pessoas, sapatos, cÃ©u, noite, crepÃºsculo e atividades ao ar livre — Severino Silva

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Ameer Alhabi

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He started contributing pictures to AFP in February 2016. His photography career began in 2014 when he started working with local media centers, and then with the local sniper photo site, moving on to working with the Palestinian APA images, and Italian NUR photos with the aim of showing what is happening in Syria to the world. Many of his friends completed their studies in Turkey or immigrated to Germany. He continued to work in Aleppo until leaving in December 2016.

He was wounded by two bullets during a peace protest in April 2012 and his father, Mohammed Mashhadi, was wounded in 2015 during his work with the Civil Defence team and later was killed in bombardment in July 2016 in Aleppo. His cousin Louay Mashhadi was wounded last year as well, as he also works for the Civil Defence.

Ameer’s daily life revolves around working with the Syrian Civil Defence teams since 2014 and he’s pessimistic about an end to the war in Syria. “Daily life in Aleppo includes no entertainment, no coffe shops or restaurants to go to. It’s the most dangerous city in the world,” he told AFP blogs. Walid has applied for asylum to France to study.

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Steve McCurry

Born in 1950 in Philadelphia, McCurry is a renowned photojournalist from America. Although, he had planned to study filmmaking and cinematography, he got a degree in theatre art and graduated in 1974. When he began taking photos for The Daily Collegian, a newspaper for the Penn State, McCurry developed an interest in photography.

The launch of his career occurred when he disguised as a native person and entered Afghanistan through Pakistan right before the Soviet Invasion was to happen. He saved a photographic documentation of the event and these images were published worldwide showing the conflict. For this project, he was presented the Robert Capa Gold Medal dedicated to photographers displaying extraordinary endeavor and valor.

Steve McCurry kept covering armed battle including Lebanon Civil War, the Afghan Civil War, the Gulf War, the Cambodian Civil War, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Islamic Insurgence in the Philippines. His work has been illustrated internationally in publications and McCurry frequently contributes to the National Geographic. In addition, since 1986, he has been a member of Magnum Photos.

McCurry has received many award between 1980 and 2011 including Magazine Photographer of the Year award by National Press Photographers Association in 1984, Award of Excellence: Spanish Gypsy by White House News Photographers Association in 1990, the Special Recognition Award by the United Nations International Photographic Council in 2002, Leica Hall of Fame Award by St.Moritz in Switzerland in 2011 and many more. In 2006, he received two Honorary Fellowships, one by the Royal Photography Society of Great Britain and the other by New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography.

Through his photography expeditions, Steve McCurry observes the consequences of war on people. He depicts not only the effects on landscapes but on human face as well. He aims to portray the imprudent moment, experiences imprinted on people’s face and a soul escaping.

In 2003, McCurry was portrayed in television documentary – The Face of the Human Condition – by Denis Delestrac (French award winning movie maker), .

Steve McCurry is found to be shooting in both film and digital, however his preference lies in transparency film. McCurry was allowed by Eastman Kodak to shoot using the transparency film, Kodakchrome – it was the last produced roll. Many of these photos have been published by Vanity Fair on the internet.

McCurry is universally recognized as one of the finest photographers of today and is famous for reminiscent color photography throughout the world.

He has published many books, such as The Imperial Way in 1985, Portraits in 1999, Sanctuary: The Temples of Angkor in 2002, The Path to Buddha: A Tibetan Pilgrimage in 2003, Steve McCurry in 2005, Looking East in 2006, In the Shadows of Mountains in 2007, The Unguarded Moment in 2009, and The Iconic Photographs in 2011.

McCurry is obsessed with an intrinsic curiosity about people and the world. He has a mysterious ability to transcend boundaries of culture and language in order to discover and document human experience stories.

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Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work. Salgado initially worked with the photo agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in 1979, he joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in 1994 and with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work. He is particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations.They reside in Paris.

He has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2001.

Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis. The latter three are mammoth collections with hundreds of images each from all around the world. His most famous pictures are of a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada.

Between 2004 and 2011, Salgado worked on Genesis, aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of nature and humanity. It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived as a potential path to humanity’s rediscovery of itself in nature.

In September and October 2007, Salgado displayed his photographs of coffee workers from India, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London. The aim of the project was to raise public awareness of the origins of the popular drink.

Together, Lélia and Sebastião have worked since the 1990s on the restoration of a small part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. In 1998, they succeeded in turning this land into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra. The institute is dedicated to a mission of reforestation, conservation and environmental education.

Salgado and his work are the focus of the film The Salt of the Earth (2014), directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film won a special award at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Academy Awards.

(Sebastião Salgado /Amazonas Images/Courtesy Taschen) — Sebastiao Salgado

Damir Sagolj

Damir Sagolj was born in 1971 in Sarajevo, in what is now Bosnia. After school he began studying architecture, but after a year moved with his family to Moscow, where his father worked as the correspondent for the main Bosnian newspaper Oslobodjenje.

In Moscow, he studied at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, but in 1990 moved back to complete his engineering studies in Sarajevo. During the 1992-95 war in the Balkans, Sagolj served with the Bosnian army, and began taking pictures. In 1995, he started working with Paris-based Sipa press agency, and offering pictures to Reuters—eventually becoming Reuters’ staff photographer in Bosnia in 1996.

As the situation in the Balkans quietened, Sagolj started traveling to the Middle East, mainly to Iran, Lebanon and Israel, and after 9/11 to Afghanistan and Iraq. A photo from his coverage of coalition troops in Iraq was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

Beside covering conflict in the Balkans, Middle East, Asia and America, Sagolj shot other assignments for Reuters, including the Olympics, the soccer World Cups, and various European and Asian sports championships. He has covered post 9/11 in New York City, floods in Pakistan and Thailand, the tsunami in Japan, as well as the historical events and changes in Myanmar and the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. More recently he has covered the war on drugs in Philippines and the ongoing crisis in and around North Korea.

In 2009 he moved to Bangkok, Thailand and then in 2015 to Beijing where he is currently based and works as Reuters chief photographer for China.

Sagolj’s photos have been published in leading magazines and newspapers. He is the recipient of several international awards for photojournalism including World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, CHIPP and SOPA. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including his two solo shows at Visa pour l’Image, in Perpignan, France.

Sagolj holds MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication.

Russell Lee Klika

At age 17, Klika joined the U.S. Marine Corps and eventually became a combat photographer, serving 12 years. Staff Sgt. Klika served three tours of duty in Iraq, the latest in 2006.

Russell left the Marine Corps and became head photographer at The Vista Press, a now-closed daily newspaper in Vista, California, where he covered the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, California.

In 2004, he joined the 278th Regimental Combat Team Tennessee Army National guard as a noncommissioned officer as head of public affairs, deploying with the unit for a tour in Iraq. After he returned, he became an operation warrior trainer for the first army and a combat photography trainer.

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Felipe Dana

Felipe Dana was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 1985. He started his career as an assistant photographer when he was only 15 and later pursued a degree in photography, all the while working on commercial assignments and contributing to various local and international news agencies.

In 2009, he joined the Associated Press and decided to dedicate himself solely to photojournalism, focusing on the social upheaval in his native city as it prepared for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Dana also documented urban violence in Latin America, the Zika epidemic, the migrant crisis in Europe and Africa and conflicts in the Middle East, including the Mosul offensive in Iraq, war against the Islamic State in Syria, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Gaza.

A woman carries a young, injured girl. (Felipe Dana/AP) — Felipe Dana

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Zeid Ali, 12, left, and Hodayfa Ali, 11, comfort each other after their house was hit and collapsed during fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants. (Felipe Dana/AP) — Felipe Dana

Andrea Bruce

Through documentary photography, Andrea Bruce brings attention to people living in the aftermath of war. She is a co-owner and member of the photo agency NOOR. (office@noorimages.com)

For eight years she has chronicled the world’s most troubled areas as a staff photographer for The Washington Post. She focused on Iraq from 2003 to the present, following the intricacies and obstacles of the conflict experienced by Iraqis and the US military. She also wrote a weekly column for The Post called “Unseen Iraq.”

Her awards include top honors from the White House News Photographers Association (where she has been named Photographer of the Year four times), several awards from the International Pictures of the Year contest, and the prestigious John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York.

She has also been a finalist for The Aftermath Project grant and a 2011 recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship. In 2010 she received the WHNPA grant for her work in Ingushetia.

In 2012, she was the recipient of the first Chris Hondros Fund Award for the “commitment, willingness and sacrifice shown in her work.”

Andrea is currently based in Mexico City and is available for photography and multimedia assignments.

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