Witness Journal is the first italian photojournalism magazine online. Witness Journal comes from the experience of a journalists and photographers’ team, they joined efforts in order to create a different and innovative project . Far from the standard business model, Witness proposes a different approach to information, according to many different points of view. It’s a free, online monthly photo-magazine developed by an editorial stuff working with professionist journalist and photographers, but also with the contribution of the web communities.
Witness Journal Issue#48
Leader: Insider
“This war is like an actress that is getting older. It is always less photogenic and more dangerous”
Robert Capa, 1939
Who knows who is Mr. Jim Yong Kim raise your hand.
Well, he could become one of the most influential men of the Earth.
Kim is not a politician, nor a famous diplomat, nor is he a banker or one of those business self-made business men that have gained thaumaturge power in the collective imagination. He is a doctor and anthropologist, an expert of human needs not monetary, known for his crusades on health and social justice, and he is Barack Obama’s candidate to guide the World Bank.
Homeless
by Lee Jeffries
Lee Jeffries is a self-taught photographer who is crusading to bring attention to the plight of the homeless. Most recently, he traveled to Florida from the end of January through early February to continue the series he began in London four years ago.
Slum’s Insider
by Filippo Romano and Francesco Giusti
Mathare is a gigantic slum in the internal urban area of Nairobi, second based on the population only that of Kibeira, a black hole where 600,000 inhabitants crowd. Come with us in the middle of the slums.
Architecture of Hamburg
di Maurizio Moschese
The project of the HafenCity of Hamburg is a plan to develop the waterfront of the city, that will increase the usable surface area of about 40%, through a highly sustainable project that accommodates tradition and innovation.
The island that isn’t
by Jacopo Querci
I don’t knock on your door. I don’t proposing a new contract for gas. I am gas, I do it, I work it. One shift after another. We’re not robots, we like the silence of the sea while we are suspended on walls of cement and steel.
Occupy The Ship
by Enrico Doria and Francesco Sabbatini
This is the story of a few workers that occupied the shipbuilding yard of Trapani, that fight strenuously against the lay off decided by the company that manages the yard, in the indifference of most of the city and institutions.
De la vache à la fontine
by Francesco Zoppi
Fontina DOP is produced by antique gestures handed down generation to generation, and today as before, the shepherds from the Val d’Aosta demonstrate those gestures to the new generation, maintaining the story toward a genuine and multicultural society that creates riches for man and his territory.
The most beautiful day of my life
by Luca Napoli
Together for 16 years, on the street, in Milan. Rosaria and Giacomo in the Garibaldi train station. In reality they live with nothing. A coffee, a cigarette, a shower in the station, a cold plate eaten on the street or in a food kitchen.
The places of memories
by Ugo Panella
The Dirty War (Guerra Sucia) was a program of violent repression enacted in Argentina with the objective to eliminate any form of protest and dissidence in the country, organized and conducted from 1976 to 1983 by the Argentinian Military Junta.
Interview with Adam Pretty
by Manuela Cigliutti
Manuela Cigliutti meets Adam Pretty, a Getty Images Photographer, that recently won the Sports category second prize on World Press Photo 2012.
