Inspiration with a Humanitarian Side

Inspiration with a Humanitarian Side

In my preparations for my trip to Iraq in late January of 2010, I’ve been doing a lot of research on things like humanitarian photography, photojournalism, photo essays and other related topics. I’ve come across some pretty amazing sights. I thought I’d take this moment just to share with you three links that you might inspiring and motivational. I hope you enjoy these sites. The first selection of images is from a Spanish site called 20 Minutos.

http://www.20minutos.es

The other site is of a friend of mine, Matt Powell. Matt works for the Christian aide and relief organization Samaritan’s Purse. Matt is a great guy and a wonderful photographer.

Matt Powell

Then, I found Black Snapper, a site that gives, as they put it  “a daily dose of inspiring photography from around the world”.  Do yourself a favor and poke around this site.  They highlight a different photographer every day and have different theme weeks. It is way cool and a gold mine of great images.

http://www.theblacksnapper.com/

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    • Matt Brandon

      Tim, great links, thanks. I know mediastorm.org, Brian Storm is a real advocate for multimedia work. vewd.org looks like a close second. Very impressive.

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  1. Isaac Garcia

    Just a minor correction.

    20minutos.es is not a ” stand-alone site” in itself, it is the online version of a free, daily newspaper. That particular gallery (which they fail to mention what edition represents) is for the annual photojournalism contest put forth by Médecins du Monde.

    Luis Valtueña was a Spanish photojournalist that was gunned down in Rwanda among with two other volunteers (a fourth I believe, an American managed to survive loosing “only” a leg) on January 18, 1997. He was an avid mountain biker.

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