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		<title>At Times Witty, Touching, And Downright Shocking</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/24/at-times-witty-touching-and-downright-shocking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zoe Strauss's America shines a light on the often unseen people and places in the United States today. Once in a great while, a photographer and their photographs break new ground and people sit right up and take notice. Zoe Strauss is such a photographer. The Philadelphia native who has brought us searing images of that city's marginalized people and places on the fringe of society, has taken her no holds barred, up close and personal style of photography to the roads less traveled across America.]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit Is A Bankrupt City</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/17/detroit-is-a-bankrupt-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't forget to trun up the volume when viewing Daimon's audio slideshow on Detroit in (economic) crisis.]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Humbled By People’s Resilience And Hospitality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of my photography is the Middle East, on women and children especially. Lebanon in particular is interesting because of its key location as a gate to the Middle East, between the West and the Arab world. I grew up and lived in both Lebanon and the U.S. I am a Lebanese insider who speaks the language, knows the country, and understands its people, but also an outsider who can see Lebanon and its complexities through Western eyes, who can still be intrigued by the dichotomies that are shocking to the Westerner, but unnoticed by the locals.]]></description>
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		<title>I travelled with Mikhail, my Belarusan companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August 2009 I travelled with Mikhail, my Belarusan companion, throughout the country as a participant to Plotki magazine’s Belarus Inside Out project. Ten days of restless movement in and between four major cities, Grodna, Bobruisk, Mogilev and Minsk, seeking to satisfy my urge to document life as-it-is in this isolated, flat-terrained but otherwise stranger-friendly place.]]></description>
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		<title>Bombed Out Buildings And Portraits Of The Displaced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the bombed out buildings and burned villages, to portraits of the displaced and grief-stricken civilian victims, and through the troop movements of the Russian peacekeepers, Ossetian Militia, and Georgian military, VII Network photographer Donald Weber covered the many aspects of the Russian-Georgian War.]]></description>
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		<title>Pause For Thought, Even If Just For A Microsecond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elie Domit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turn Right is a term lifted from military vocabulary, and hence a priori it is no wonder that I would choose it as a title for my photo series on Palestinian soldiers. My soldiers, however, are not shown marching or parading. Most of them are not moving at all in front of the camera. Their very stillness reveals the complex resonance of the title which, depending on how one reads the two constituent words, can be taken to mean very different things: a command to turn right, a right or correct change of direction, or the right to change direction. Faced with the simple command: Right Turn!, every soldier and, generally, every human being, would pause for thought, even if just for a microsecond, before reacting. The response, if it leads to an observable external action, would not, however, reveal anything about the inner state of mind. Indeed, in view of the complexities of today’s socio-political environment and of individual histories, what would be the right turn to take? Should one turn to the right, turn around in circles, turn back, or turn away?]]></description>
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		<title>Being On The Edge Between Two Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/09/on-the-edge-between-two-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elie Domit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a mother of a teenage daughter I have been watching with awe her passage from girlhood into adulthood, with all the complications that it entails. As I am observing her and her girlfriends, I became fascinated with the transformation taking place, with the adult personality shaping up and with an insecurity and a self-consciousness that are now replacing the carefree world those girls had live in so far. I started photographing them in group situations, and quickly realized that they were so aware of each other’s presence, and that their being in a group affected very much whom they were portraying to the world. I also realized that under an air of self-assurance, those young women were often very fragile, self-conscious and confused. While their bodies were developing fast into women’s bodies, they were still young girls who suddenly thought they had to behave like adults.]]></description>
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		<title>What Ruin War Brings To Homes Of Ordinary People</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/05/what-ruin-war-brings-to-homes-of-ordinary-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elie Domit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dalia Khamissy: Wednesday July 12, 2006, Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers in an operation that sparked a series of attacks on Lebanon’s infrastructure, civilians’ houses and natural environment. The offensive lasted for 34 days, during which I was working as the photo editor for an international news agency in its Beirut office; I only saw the conflict through the images that I edited of other photographers. The country was packed with local and international media that transmitted their stories for few weeks after the cease-fire until the world lost interest in Lebanon’s news, and the citizens, whose lives had changed forever, were forgotten. I quit my job by the end of 2006.]]></description>
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		<title>The Intersection Of post-Apartheid Identities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Cuthbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Interior Relations" focuses on the intersection of post-Apartheid identities via photographic portraiture of black domestic workers who work in homes owned by white South Africans. Although these domestic workers and their employers remain separated by an enormous gulf in race, culture, education and poverty that characterizes much of South Africa today, they are often wedded by an intensely intimate, personal, and awkward interdependence.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 178 &#8211; Betrayed By Fellow Africans</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/01/day-178-betrayed-by-fellow-africans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Cuthbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[True to form and the stereotypes that are at times sadly true, Africa continues to be plagued by ethnic wars, tribal superiority and xenophobia. The latter unleashed itself in South Africa, where many African nationals have fled to, seeking respite from the harsh realities of their countries. South Africa is seen as a flicker of hope for these communities and sadly the promise of hope faded. As the violence broke in May 2008, with the locals attacking foreign nationals in many parts of the country, I decided to focus on the Somali community.]]></description>
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