The news fell at the end of the afternoon. Tim Hetherington was just killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros, in critical condition, but alive. Then just…
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Following injury to his head, Chris Hondros died a few hours after Tim. Wednesday, a photo that he had shot made the front page of the Washington Post. A man…
You don’t know this young man, yet, he is a Lettre de la Photographie idol. His name is Jose CarlosJoaquim, he is 32, married, has two children. He is also…
David Schonauer begins the week with two portraits. The first is that of Republican Paul Ryan by Marco Grob (Time). A hero or a bandit? It all depends…
For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, in print or…
The Pulitzer Prize in the category “Feature Photography” was awarded to Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times. For a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or…
Sunday, two photographic works by the American artist Andres Serrano were destroyed by hammers by two visitors who managed to escape. Among the two works was one photograph entitled…
The picture of the week shows the arrest of former Ivory CoastPresident Laurent Gbagbo. The AFP photo on the cover of the New York Times features a tired and vulnerable…
Sometime before the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague closed at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 13, 2011, a thief walked up to a sensuous image of a female nude,…
As an answer to the photographs of Christie’s staff shot by Gilles Decamps and published in Friday’s edition of La lettre, the team sent us their group photograph taken during…