Red Star, Black Gold

Ollie Woods \| Photo Stories
Ollie Woods encounters the workers of Lutien mine, one of the last steam train operated coal mines in the world.

Easy Riders, Raging Buffaloes

Afgan Hound \| Blogs
The Afghan Hound went out to the border regions of the Kunar Valley and the badlands of Wardak to see how the respective sides of the battle are utilising ‘force protection’ vehicles to gain advantage over IED casualties.

Beyond Perceivable Benefits: Jonathan Worth’s experiment

Leo Hsu \| Blogs
Leo Hsu looks at the significance of Jonathan Worth’s Creative Commons experiment.

Jeff Wall: The Complete Edition

Guy Lane \| Blogs
Guy Lane reviews Jeff Wall- The Complete Edition, a survey of Wall's range of works.

Does Haiti's Crisis Call for a New Photojournalism?

Michael David Murphy \| Blogs
Michael David Murphy looks at Haiti coverage and asks whether photojournalists would be telling different and deeper stories if organisations would pool their resources.

Mark Condren ~ Defending Life with Life

HOST Gallery \| HOST Exhibition
HOST Gallery 3 – 27 February 2010 Front Line Defenders are pleased to announce a new exhibition of photographs by Irish photographer Mark Condren, documenting human rights activists around the world.

Pipe Dreams, a shortfilm by Rena Effendi

Rena Effendi \| Photo Stories
Rena Effendi's film on the BTC oil pipeline.

Restrepo - Wins Top Honour at Sundance Film Festival 2010

In 2007 photographer Tim Hetherington and writer Sebastian Junger were commissioned by Vanity Fair to report on the US soldiers fighting in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan. The dispatches they sent back - in stills, words and film footage - were seen by millions both in the magazine and on the ABC nightly news in America.

Hetherington's image of a soldier in the forward operating base of "Restrepo" won him the 2008 World Press Photo of the Year and a short video installation Sleeping Soldiers was first shown to wide acclaim by Foto8 at the NY Photo festival 2009.

Restrepo, a feature length documentary about the soldiers who were stationed at this isolated and continually attacked outpost, received its screen premiere at the Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah in January 2010 where it was awarded the top honour for Best US Documentary Film.

Congratulations Tim and Sebastian, we look forward to the film being widely distributed.

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