David Schonauer begins his press review with images from the Ivory Coast where supporters of the two presidents, Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, confront each other. The country is on the verge of civil war. Issouf Sanogo’s shot for the New York Times shows a crowd of angry men following the murder of 6 women in a neighborhood of Abidjan.
Luc Gnago also photographed for the Boston Globe this angry crowd of men, showing a masked man in the foreground with a machete in his hand. Rebecca Blackwell (Boston Globe) proposed another point of view: that of the United Nations.
In Libya, the craziness of Muammar al-Qaddafi has taken over an entire population. The image by Goran Tomasevic is shocking, a black man, between life and death.
Joel Saget, for the Los Angeles Times, followed the escape of Libyan emigrants to Tunisia that generate occasionally comical images. In the same genre, but this time in Yemen, with an image by Muhammed Muheisen for the Washington Post.
In Pakistan, men on the street seem to have become accustomed to trucks burning, as Qazi Rauf shows for the New York Times. The photography by Ahmad Masood in Afghanistan (Boston Globe) is surrealist, a soldier appears from green vapors, a flag in his hand, all of this a symbol?
In his section “Beautiful People”, David Schonauer chose the very metaphoric cover of Rolling Stone magazine with Snooki riding a rocket and a series of portraits: Kim Kardashian as Cleopatra by Terry Richardson for Harper’s Bazaar, Dickie Eklund boxing by Jeff Riedel for Men’s Journal, and the most stylish: Jack Dorsey by John Huba for Vanity Fair.
