War reveals the true story of what our country has faced since that fateful Tuesday in 2001. Featuring 223 photographs, insightful vignettes and three thought-provoking major essays, War is a powerful collaborative effort from VII, a cutting-edge photo agency cooperatively owned by nine elite photojournalists. The three full-length essays, written by eminent journalists Peter Maass, Remy Ourdan and David Rieff, discuss the three major crises of the twenty-first century from a social, political and militaristic standpoint and further illuminate the powerful photographic images in War. The photographers of VII-Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Lauren Greenfield, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer-are used to witnessing, up close and in person, events of international turmoil. That is the duty of a photojournalist-to bear witness and to document history-and few would dispute that these photojournalists are the world's very best. In addition to documenting the experience of 9/11, War takes an incisive look at the images from Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, as well as the airstrikes and US occupation of Iraq. In War, the photographers of VII have created a shockingly intimate portrait of US foreign policy and the most critical moments of American history in the beginning of the twenty-first century. What you see here will stun you. War has received the Picture of the Year Best Photography Book, the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Selected Book, the Photo District News Best Book Selection and the Independent Publisher Awards Best Current Events.

War: USA.Afghanistan.Iraq

Arts & Photography

Knight, Gary

Greenfield, Lauren

Haviv, Ron

James Nachtwey

Boulat, Alexandra

Photography & Video

De.Mo

Haiti: 12 January 2010 is a document of the quake and its immediate aftermath. The essay is by the esteemed writer Simon Winchester. The visual testimony to the events of the first days after the quake is by award-winning VII photographer Ron Haviv.Haiti 12 January 2010 is cased in a 23" x16" flat cardboard box. The project is composed of sixteen unbound posters. Its unique format allows the viewer to absorb each page individually or to hang the entire project, thereby creating a powerful document to the immediate aftermath of the quake. Haiti 12 January 2010 is ideally suited to galleries and academic environs, as well as to readers with a strong appreciation for world-class photojournalism and design.

Haiti: 12 january 2010

de.Mo Design Limited

When battlefield prowess and political manipulation are not enough to achieve peace through victory, we summon our best and brightest to negotiate an end; we celebrate peace settlements; and we give prizes, if not to victors, then to visionaries. We exalt peace as a human achievement, and justly so. But the reality of peace is flawed. The rewards of peace are elusive for the men and women who live in the post-conflict societies of our time. Why is it so difficult to make a good peace when it is so easy to imagine? That is the question behind Imagine: Reflections on Peace. In this stunning collection, photographic essays make grippingly palpable the stakes during war and peace. Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Justice Richard Goldstone, ICTY prosecutor, and Jonathan Powell, chief negotiator for the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement, are joined by world-renown writers Jon Lee Anderson, Philip Gourevitch, Jon Swain, Robin Wright, Anthony Loyd and Martin Fletcher in revealing the complexities of redemption and rebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Rwanda. We hear first person accounts of survival and the search for inner peace that bring the big picture to the personal. With added insights from scholars and practitioners, the book offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the unvarnished story of peace and a window into what it takes for societies and individuals to move forward after unspeakable brutality.

IMAGINE: Reflections on Peace

Power, Samantha

LOYD, Anthony

GOUREVITCH, Philip

Anderson, Jon Lee

FLETCHER, MARTIN

SWAIN, Jon

Peress, Gilles

WRIGHT, Robin

Foundation, VII

POWELL, Jonathan

Ferry, Stephen

Picone, Jack

McCullin, Don.

SparkPress

In 2018, the VII Foundation asked more than a dozen renowned reporters and photojournalists to revisit countries with which they had become achingly familiar during times of brutal conflict. The task was to see peace through the prism of their journalistic experience; to survey familiar towns and villages; to reconnect with women, men, soldiers, civilians, statesmen, and students who had survived the conflict or grown up in the postwar society; to discover what the lived experience of peace feels like. To augment this reportage, the VII Foundation sought input from academics and peacemakers. And they invited citizens of those countries to give their very personal narratives, in their own voices. Hard edges were not softened nor unpalatable impressions deleted. They wanted to show the truth as seen and experienced by those that lived and those that reported on seemingly intractable civil wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Rwanda.The result is Imagine: Reflections on Peace - a curation of searing images and trenchant essays that show both micro and macro views of peace, with its uneven degrees of economic success, political stability, and social harmony. In this stunning collection, worldrenown journalists and authors take us into societies that have suffered searing conflict - and survived. Photographic essays make the stakes during war and peace grippingly palpable. Compelling backstories about negotiations, tales of survival, and accounts of the search for inner peace make the big picture personal. Imagine offers a rare glimpse into the unvarnished story of peace, a window into what it takes for societies and individuals to move forward after unspeakable brutality.

Imagine: Reflections on Peace

The VII Foundation

Hemeria

English summary: Not least because of their uniforms, members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard are amongst the most frequently photographed subjects in Rome. However the soldiers' guard duties at the entrances to the Vatican City form only a small part of lives, which remain hidden to most visitors to Rome.  Taking his camera, photographer Oliver Sittel accompanied the guardsmen through two years of service and daily life. The moments captured on film tell of a sense of duty, discipline and solidarity. At the same time they provide for a fascinating look behind the secret walls of the Vatican showing just how closely tradition and modernity are linked there. ~ German description: Die Mitglieder der Päpstlichen Schweizergarde gehören nicht zuletzt wegen ihrer Uniformen zu den beliebtesten Fotomotiven Roms. Doch der Wachdienst an den Eingängen des Vatikanstaates ist nur ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus dem Leben der Soldaten, das den meisten Rombesucherinnen und -besuchern verborgen bleibt.  Der Fotograf Oliver Sittel begleitete mit der Kamera zwei Jahre lang die Gardisten durch ihren Dienst und ihren Alltag hindurch. Die im Bild eingefangenen Momente erzählen von Pflichtbewusstsein, Disziplin und Zusammenhalt. Zugleich werfen sie faszinierende Blicke hinter die geheimnisvollen Mauern des Vatikans und zeigen, wie eng Tradition und Moderne hier miteinander verbunden sind.

Schweizergarde - Pontifical Swiss Guard (German Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Sittel, Oliver

Christian Books & Bibles

TVZ - Theologischer Verlag Z|rich

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