The Year in Pictures by The New York Times

2009: The year in pictures by The New York Times.

Platon - Portrait of Power

British born American based portrait photography Platon was commission by the New Yorker magazine to do a series of portraits of heads of states during the last United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Platon is a great artist and his pictures are world class for world leaders.
Click on the image to left to get a link to a multimedia of his pictures.

Video of John Limbert, American Hostage from 30 Years Ago

This video is from Ayatollah Khamenei's website showing former American hostage John Limbert speaking Farsi with Ayatollah Khamenei. Limbert at the time was working for the U.S. embassy as the Iranian students took over the complex. Ayatollah Khamenei was not yet Iran's Supreme Leader.

13 Aban in Tehran - 30 years later

A great photo by Abedin Taherkenareh on the cover of today's The New York Times Lens blog.

National Geographic - Amazing Chimps Photo

In this amazing photograph taken by Monica Szczupider, show the burial of a chimp named Dorothy.
After a hunter killed her mother, Dorothy was sold as a “mascot” to an amusement park in Cameroon. For the next 25 years she was tethered to the ground by a chain around her neck, taunted, teased, and taught to drink beer and smoke cigarettes for sport. In May 2000 Dorothy was rescued and relocated. As her health improved, her deep kindness surfaced. She mothered an orphaned chimp named Bouboule and became a close friend to many others, including Jacky, the group’s alpha male, and Nama, another amusement-park refugee. On September 23, 2008, Dorothy, who was in her late 40s, died of congestive heart failure. (The story in National Geographic magazine blog)

Documenting Pollution by Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan's photographs of albatross chicks were made in Fall of 2009 on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, Jordan did move not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs. Nor anything was manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. To see Jordan's pictures please visit his site here.

In Whose Name? by Abbas

In Whose Name? is a collection of photographs taken by Magnum photographer Abbas from the Muslim world since the events of the 9/11. A selection of Abbas' work can be seen on Magnum in Motion website here.