Noell Oszvald -Monochromatic only

Noell Oszvald is a 22-year-old Hungarian photographer who only picked up a camera for the first time a year ago.
She now lives and works in Budapest. Oszvald has only showed a few of her images with the world as of yet, all being self portraits. She works solely in black and white film because she finds color to be distracting from her conceptual ideas. She has also mentioned in interviews that she wishes for the viewer to find a piece of themselves within her work and to interpret it individually based upon that exploration. According to an interview conducted by My Modern Met, Oszvald says, “I don’t want to tell people what to see in my images, this is the reason why I never really write any descriptions other than titles. It shows what I wish to express but everyone is free to figure out what the picture says to them. It’s very interesting to read so many different thoughts about the same piece of work.”
Oszvald’s aesthetic is very whimsical and shadowy, powerful and surreal. Her compositions are simple with plaine planar backdrops capturing purity and allowing the shapes and edges within the image to create a soft yet powerful relationship.

Dünyanın Farklı Yerlerinden 30 Etkileyici İnsan Portresi

1. 29 yaşındaki Somayeh Mehri ve 3 yaşındaki kızı Rana Afghanipour birbirlerini öperken. Asit saldırısına maruz kaldıktan sonra, kimsenin onları öpmek istemediğini söylüyorlar.

2. Suriyeli bir genç, kız kardeşini evlerinin enkazı altından kurtardıktan sonra.

3. 23 saatlik bir kalp nakli ameliyatından başarıyla çıkan kalp cerrahı. Asistanıysa köşede uyuyakalmış.

4. Brezilya'da 12 yaşındaki Diego Frazão, öğretmeninin cenazesinde keman çalarken.

5. Tayland'dan mutlu ve sevimli bir çift.

6. Ailesini IŞİD'den korumak için silahlanan Yezidi bir kız.

7. Mısırlı bir kadın, göstericilere ateş etmeyi reddeden bir polisi öperken.

8. Küçük Guarani kız, ölü bir sıçanı elinde tutarken.

9. Sibirya Ormanı'nda 11 gün hayatta kalabilmiş bir kız çocuğu.

10. 72 yıl sonra nihayet evlenebilen iki kadın.

11. São Paulo'dan bir erkek çocuğu.

12. Moğolistan'da kartalla avcılık yapan 13 yaşındaki kız.

13. Güney Vietnam'da görevde olan bir asker, 1965.

14. Siyahi bir bebek, albino bir bebeğin elini tutarken.

15. Hindistan'da Vivekananda Okulu'ndaki görme engelli albino öğrenciler.

16. Ölüm kampından salındıktan sonra, yüzü kesikler içinde kalan Ruandalı bir genç.

17. Çalışan Şaolin rahipleri

18. Madagaskarlı bir kız ve Baobab ağaçları.

19. Çinli bir polis, görev için gemiyle gönderilmeden önce gözyaşlarına hakim olamıyor.

20. Evini koruyan 106 yaşındaki Ermeni nine

21. Evinin enkazı altında mahsur kalan Omayra adındaki kız, bu fotoğraf çekildikten saatler sonra hayatını kaybetti.

22. Göçmen anne ve çocukları (Büyük Bunalım'ın da sembolik fotoğrafıdır)

23. Brezilya'da bir köyün şefi

24. Nijer, Tahoua'da açlık çeken bir anne ve bebeği yardım çadırında

25. Sibirya usulü aile yemeği

26. Hipertrikozlu (Ambras Sendromu) bir kadın. Orta Çağ'da bu insanlara kurt adam deniliyordu.

27. Türbanın ardından konuşan gözler..

28. Meksika, Sabinas'taki bir kömür madeninde mola veren bir madenci

29. Metrodaki geyşa

30. Changzhi'de bir kömür madeninde, vardiyasını bitiren bir maden işçisi sigarasını içiyor.

'Vietnam: The Real War'

'Vietnam: The Real War' - Iconic Images Published In New Book By Associated Press (GRAPHIC PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK   

Associated Press (AP) have published a new book called Vietnam: The Real War, containing over 300 powerful images to mark the 50th anniversary of the conflict.
Published today, the book contains images of candid moments from the war chosen from over 200,000 AP photos, from front-line combat to Buddhist Monks committing self-immolation in protest.
The images changed public perception of the war. Photos, rather than video footage, were key in conveying to audiences around the world the brutality of the war in Vietnam. Video cameras were being used by journalists in Vietnam but lacked the impact of the small 35-millimetre camera, the tool of choice for photojournalists.

Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire, January 1, 1966. Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (background) escorted the civilians through a series of firefights during the U.S. assault on a Viet Cong stronghold at Bao Trai, about twenty miles west of Saigon. An unidentified American soldier wears a hand-lettered slogan on his helmet, June 1965. The soldier was serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigade on defense duty at the Phuoc Vinh airfield. Vietnam: The Real War carries an introduction from Pete Hamill, who reported from Vietnam in 1965: “Across the years of the war in Vietnam, the AP photographers saw more combat than any general.
“This book shows how good they were. As a young reporter, I had learned much from photographers about how to see, not merely look.
"From Vietnam, photographers taught the world how to see the war. Say the word ‘Vietnam’ today to most people of a certain age; the image that rises is usually a photograph.”
The book includes AP journalist Malcolm Browne’s shocking photo of a Buddhist monk taking his own life in petrol-fueled flames on a Saigon street in 1963, protesting the policies of the United States-backed South Vietnamese regime.
When President John F. Kennedy saw the photo of the burning monk, he reportedly remarked, “We’ve got to do something about that regime.”
In the first of a series of fiery suicides by Buddhist monks, Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, June 11, 1963. The photograph aroused worldwide outrage and hastened the end of the Diem government. With the photo on his Oval Office desk, President Kennedy reportedly remarked to his ambassador, “We’re going to have to do something about that regime.” Also included is the traumatic depiction of napalm attacks and the impact that chemical-based weapons had on civilians, including AP’s Nick Ut photo showing a scorched, naked girl fleeing a napalm attack.
Ut said of the girl in his famous picture "I cried when I saw her running, if I don't help her - if something happened and she died - I think I'd kill myself after that."
The photographer's older brother was reportedly killed on assignment with the AP in the southern Mekong Delta.
Nine years later, President Richard M. Nixon and an aide speculated about whether the “napalm girl” photo was somehow faked.
Bang, followed by soldiers of the South Vietnamese army’s 25th Division, June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane seeking Viet Cong hiding places accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on civilians and government troops instead. Nine-year-old Kim Phuc (center) had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The other children (from left) are her brothers Phan Thanh Tam, who lost an eye, and Phan Thanh Phouc, and her cousins Ho Van Bon and Ho Thi Ting. Marines move through a landing zone, December 1969. Sunlight breaks through dense foliage around the town of Binh Gia as South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, damp, and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that did not come, January 1965. One hour later, the troops would move out for another long, hot day hunting the guerrillas in the jungles forty miles southeast of Saigon. Medic Thomas Cole of Richmond, Virginia, looks up with his one unbandaged eye as he continues to treat wounded S.Sgt. Harrison Pell of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, during a firefight, January 30, 1966. The men belonged to the 1st Cavalry Division, which was engaged in a battle at An Thi, in the Central Highlands, against combined Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. This photo appeared on the cover of Life magazine, February 11, 1966, and photographer Henri Huet’s coverage of An Thi received the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club. A woman mourns over the body of her husband after identifying him by his teeth, and covering his head with her conical hat. The man’s body was found with forty-seven others in a mass grave near Hue, April 11, 1969. The victims were believed killed during the insurgent occupation of Hue as part of the Tet Offensive.