What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.
Magnum and Slate present a gallery of the newsmakers of 2006—the stirring events, the memorable anniversaries, and the prominent figures who’ve passed on.
ATLANTA—Martin Luther King Jr. at home with his wife, Coretta, 1961. Coretta Scott King died on Jan. 31, 2006.
The death of Chile's Augusto Pinochet on Dec. 10, 2006 was more than the
passing of another dictator. His violent regime spurred an international
human rights movement. Activist and lawyer Reed Brody from Human Rights
Watch, who has closely followed the legal case against Pinochet for a
decade, provided the commentary for this essay.
Minutes to Midnight
by Trent Parke
Trent Parke captured Minutes to Midnight during a two-year journey across Australia at the end of which his son was born. It is both a document of a nation mourning the loss of a perceived innocence and a man's vision and evolution.