Too Many Angles on Suffering?

“Photographers from across the globe descended on Haiti last month after the earthquake. As the death toll grew, more photographers arrived — some with a deep history of working in Haiti or in conflict zones, some with neither.”

An interesting essay on Lens.

STAND Digest and Jehad Nga's photography from Darfur

This month’s issue took a bit longer than expected.

More info via STAND Canada.

Ji Lee: The Transformative Power of Personal Projects

A great talk from the fantastic 99% conference, that perfectly suits some of the current endeavours I’m involved with (more info to come).

“How can personal projects feed our professional development? Ji Lee changed his career trajectory with 30,000 stickers and a guerrilla art approach.”

More info regarding Ji available here.

The Vice Guide to Liberia

This web series is not for the faint of heart. The images and words obtained are both graphic and haunting. Regardless, the subject matter deserves the attention that Shane Smith and crew have given to it .

“In The Vice Guide To Liberia, VBS travels to the capital city Monrovia to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war that ravaged the West African country.”

More info and full series episodes available via VBS.TV.

Night Lights

More info via yesyesno.

Jay-Z - On to the next one

“If Jigga’s New Year’s resolution was to produce music videos that are on a completely different visual plane than all other vids in hip-hop, then he’s off to a great start. On To the Next One is intercut with so many stunning black-and-white images that it seems like it was made more for a Museum of Modern Art installation than MTV.” – Rolling Stone Mag