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Quote of the Week
What [my photography is] all about, in the end, is that I want to give a voice, albeit only a tiny voice, to those who don’t have one.
John Vink
Friday, Mar. 30, 2007
Cherry Blossoms
Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007
Space, The Final Frontier
Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2007
Bolshoi, Oh, Boy!
Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2007
Eiffel Tower Views
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LOURDES, France—Pope John Paul II, 1983.
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Interactive Essays
GuantanamoWorld Water Day
Guantanamo
by Paolo Pellegrin

The U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay has become a controversial flashpoint of America’s “war on terror.” Magnum Photographer Paolo Pellegrin photographed the camp and its prisoners extensively in 2006. He also documented former detainees in London, Kuwait, Bahrain and Afghanistan.

War Status Iraq
by Geert van Kesteren

Four years after the start of the war in Iraq, Geert van Kesteren talks with Iraqi refugees in Jordan while leafing through his 2004 book Why Mister, Why? “Baghdad gives you three options: suicide, be a thief or be a killer.”

Magnum in Motion Video Podcasts
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<i>Opakh Thrace: Terra Incognita </i>
Opakh Thrace: Terra Incognita
by Nikos Economopoulos
Perhaps the only thing that we truly know about the region of Thrace, comprised of southern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and European Turkey, is that we don't know about it. This book explores the concept of otherness in the areas around Thrace.
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Jazz Greats
Jazz Greats
by Magnum Photographers
In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, Magnum and Slate present some of the most influential innovators in jazz music.

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