Faces of the Holocaust

Caption: German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, USSR.
Photo Courtesy: United States Holocaust Memorial [Photograph #64407]

My friend Abhijit Bhatlekar from Mint sent me this link. Polish photographer Maciek Nabrdalik, who is part of the mentorship programme started by James Nachtwey's agency VII, decided that he needed to capture the faces of the survivors of the Holocaust before they fade away forever into history.

I think the concept and the pictures are brilliant. Do check Maciek Nabradik’s project Also read the reader comments on this New York Times photo blog, and tell me what you think of these pictures.

True photojournalism

James Nachtwey's photo agency VII Photos is one of my favourite websites for many reasons. Not just for the amazing pictures they shoot, but the commitment the group has to global issues, and keeping the flag of true photojournalism flying. Each time you visit the website, there is a new photo gallery which brings you head on with a new issue and forces you to think.

Next month, Marcus Bleasdale's second book on the Democratic Republic of Congo, titled The Rape of a Nation, will be released. The book has 105 powerful pictures taken during several visits in last seven years which cover the complex Congo conflict that has ravaged the country since 1998.

Bleasdale's first book on Congo, One Hundred Years of Darkness, was released in 2002 and was immediately voted best photojournalistic book of the year by American Photo District News. Done entirely in black and white, John Le Carre has written a foreword to Rape of a Nation.

To see a selection of the work, please click here: http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=974