ICPhoto: How Joseph Rodriguez's Photographs Humanize the "Other America"

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Photo by Joe Rodriguez

In “Portraits from Another America,” which was recently on view at the Taller Boricua gallery in East Harlem, Joe Rodriguez displays photographs of youth and families who have been at the heart of his work on gangs and the criminal justice system in Southern…

An iPhone in the DRC: Photos by Michael Christopher Brown Like many photojournalists, I’ve been shooting with my iPhone for a while. Using a mobile phone allows me to be somewhat invisible as a professional photographer; people see me as just another person in the crowd. Invisibility is particularly useful in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a potpourri of armed groups and governments have used conflict minerals as the latest way to help fund the warfare, atrocities and repression that have afflicted the area for more than a century.
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An iPhone in the DRC: Photos by Michael Christopher Brown

Like many photojournalists, I’ve been shooting with my iPhone for a while. Using a mobile phone allows me to be somewhat invisible as a professional photographer; people see me as just another person in the crowd. Invisibility is particularly useful in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a potpourri of armed groups and governments have used conflict minerals as the latest way to help fund the warfare, atrocities and repression that have afflicted the area for more than a century.

Chance as a photographer’s tool: ‘Shooting from the hip’ in Chicago Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante’s “Shooting from the Hip” blog features street-photography from the neighborhoods of Chicago with unpredictable compositions that offer a genuinely candid look at the people and their lifestyles.
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Chance as a photographer’s tool: ‘Shooting from the hip’ in Chicago

Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante’s “Shooting from the Hip” blog features street-photography from the neighborhoods of Chicago with unpredictable compositions that offer a genuinely candid look at the people and their lifestyles.

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