maryanne golon: savvy diplomat, passionate editor, champion of photojournalism

the story of fallen hope teaches an all important lesson -- it pays to be in the yellow pages

anyone interested in going to the women in photojournalism conference in san diego this year, but thought the airfare was a little pricey? check out the great low air fares now at southwest airlines. san diego is their featured city of the week and the prices are super cheap.

our very own favorite nebraskan gerik parmele, who already runs a nice weblog full of great, frequently updated links, just announced a new site he's started called photocolumn.org. go give him some love.

"Perhaps it was because he was a foreign observer in a far-off war. Maybe he just saw things more clearly than most people. Ultimately, he showed the American public the real horrors of the Vietnam war.
Welsh Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths saw Vietnam as a "goldfish bowl where the values of American and Vietnamese can be observed, studied, and because of their contrasting nature, more easily appraised."
Griffiths's images were some of the first to clearly show the mismatch of American soldiers in a place they didn't belong. America had became lost in a conflict run by a government which had lost its perspective about its place in the world."

Since late May, three 35-millimeter movie cameras have been trained on ground zero from atop nearby buildings, each programmed to take a picture of the vast site every five minutes, night and day. By Sept. 11, they will be joined by three other cameras rigged to do the same....
Each camera will produce 790,000 images over seven years, but the resulting film presentation, which the producers would like to show in a room framed by six screens that would be in continuous use, would be about 20 minutes long, thanks to the time-lapse photography.

just got done looking at gilles peress' farewell to bosnia -- wow.

World-renowned wilderness photographer and writer Galen Rowell, and his wife and business partner Barbara Cushman Rowell, a photographer and writer, died early Sunday morning in an airplane crash outside of Bishop, Calif.
you'll be missed.

when steve raymer started this project, his aim was to put a human face on islam in southeast asia, a goal that seems more urgent now that southeast asia has become a new front in the global war on terrorism.