Produced by Kate Phillips, Magnum Photos
Trees
Friday is Earth Day. Magnum starts the celebration early with this selection of images of trees. What’s more lovely than a tree? MALAYSIA—At Kepong Forest Reserve, crown shyness in the kapur tree (Dryobalanops aromatica), one of the dipterocarps that, as they mature in the forest, develop mutual avoidance, 1997.
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Book of the Week Fuji by Chris Steele-Perkins The impetus for this three-year project began when Steele - Perkins was offered a gift from his Japanese wife of the famous book by nineteenth-century master printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, "36 Views of Mount Fuji". Struck by the verisimilitude of the prints as historical documents of the life of the peoples around the mountain - woodcutters, fishermen, peasants, aristocrats - as well as the beauty and spiritual aspect of the area, Steele-Perkins began to research further. | Join the Fray © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of land-lessness: how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities. Larry Towell |