Suchitra Vijayan says, “let me quickly introduce myself, I am lawyer working with the UN in Africa, I am also documentary photographer and mostly free lance. I recently started a street kids project in Arusha, Tanzania. The project is inspired by the documentary “Born into Brothels” and is aimed at teaching street kids here photography by giving out disposable cameras so that they can document world around them.”

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Run, don't walk to check out Sean Flanigan's images of India. They are amazing!

There is a Bresson-esque oeuvre to his style. Do you agree? Comment!

LIFE, the photo-heavy supplement that Time Inc. floated for some time is going away for good come April. If you were surprised, take a minute to slap yourself back to reality.

I often picked up the thin supplement in disgust. It was a last ditch effort to resuscitate a legendary brand name in publishing, but it looked pathetic. Nothing about it suggested that it would or even could stay for long. Can anybody here think of one photo essay in the new version that stood out? No? Me neither. What a shame, eh?

Oy! Let's all take a moment and pray that the zine has a better, um, after-life, as an online archive.

[Via Rob Galbraith]

This powerful photo-montage is by Ava Lowery, a 16-year old blogger I heard and saw on CNN this morning. Please check it out and spread the word.

We are approaching the four-year anniversary of this disastrous war in Iraq. Stop the madness!

International Women's Day came and went by quietly. A few websites mentioned it. Jason Kottke had a link to a photo exhibit called Women of Our Time.

Blank Noise Project attempted to “to understand how different women ( across age groups/ cultures/ communities) have dealt with street sexual harassment in their everyday lives.”

And Mike Davidson asks “What EXACTLY About This Ad Is Offensive?”

“The ad shows a man and a woman, presumably about to have sex, with four other men at various levels of undress looking on. There's no denying that the ad is extremely racy and people are well justified to be offended if strikes them negatively, but from a design perspective, I'm interested in *exactly* what elements of the ad push it over the line.”

Sexy or Sadistic? Here is the image:

You decide. Take the poll.

*With apologies to Wilfred Owen, the author of the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est, for the title of this post.