View Larger Photograph by Anne Cusack—Los Angeles Times/Polaris
May 2, 2013. A helicopter makes a drop as a wind whipped brush fire burns in Camarillo Springs, Ca.
From clashes in the West Bank and election preparations in Pakistan to the legalization of gay marriage in Colorado and battles against wildfires in California, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
View Larger Photograph by Donald Weber—VII
On Wednesday, the Open Society Foundations will mark their 20th group exhibition of “Moving Walls” — a project reflecting the group’s support for long-term documentary photography. See work from the exhibition on LightBox here.
Samuel James, Water of My Land: The Niger Delta’s Illicit Fuel Trade
Fires from hundreds of illicit fuel refineries burn every night throughout the Niger Delta. Concealed deep within mangrove swamps and raffia forests, men, women and children work by flashlight, manually tossing stolen crude oil into burning pits to keep the refining process going. Flames explode momentarily then recede into darkness.
Photographer Samuel James will be showing this body of work at the Half King. There will be an opening on Tuesday the 12th of February at 7:30PM. Sam will be joined by Stacey D. Clarkson of Harper’s Magazine to discuss the work.
View Larger The photographer Tommaso Protti, a Reportage Emerging talent, recently spent time in southeastern Turkey to work on his new project, “The Youth of Amed,” about Young Kurds in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir (called Amed in Kurdish). Tommaso was there in March when Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan announced that the PKK guerillas were laying down their arms in the fight against Turkey.
You can see a selection of this ongoing work on the Reportage Web site.
On a previous trip to Turkey’s Kurdish region, in 2011, Tommaso documented the area’s large-scale hydroelectric projects. See a selection of that work here.
CAPTION: DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY - MARCH 15, 2013. Scenes of celebration of Newroz, the most important festival in Kurdish culture, in the poor district of Baglar in Diyarbakir.
View Larger Chris Hondros/Getty Images: Iconic Images from the Iraq War
Getty photographer Chris Hondros found a single shaft of light in the violent neighborhood of Gazaliyah on February 8, 2007. The photo illuminates the mix of stress and worry of unpredictable violence on individual psyches of soldiers. In this frame, an Iraqi Army soldier smokes a cigarette while on patrol with American forces in the violent neighborhood of Gazaliyah, Baghdad. Snipers are a daily problem for U.S. and Iraqi Army soldiers who patrol the neighborhood, which is beset with Sunni-Shia sectarian violence.
—Andy Jacobsohn, Photo Editor, Newsweek & The Daily Beast
Visit The Daily Beast to view more from The Most Iconic Images From the Iraq War, as selected by the Picture Dept.
