Magnum in Motion - WOW!

Sometimes you accidently find something that instantaneously "grabs you" and you find yourself totally enveloped in this new find. Such was the case this morning as I started to look around the web for items of interest that would help me in my quest to Experience Mobility.

Just by good fortune, I stumbled onto an article by Barbara Gibson entitled Magnum in Motion: Photography Finds a Voice

I started to read her article and eventually clicked on a side link: See “The Aesthetic Hunter” essay featuring the photography of Steve McCurry. I found this to be a compelling story of human struggle from the eyes and lens of a masterful photo journalist, Steve McCurry.

In part this is what Barbara had to say:

The first thing you think when you watch the Magnum in Motion photo essays is that you won’t find these on the six o’clock news.

It’s not just that the essays combine unforgettable documentary photography with video, text, music, narration, and animation. It’s that they address issues and events other news media can’t squeeze into sound bites.

For instance, in “The Aesthetic Hunter” Steve McCurry’s masterful color photography gives insight into the human struggle and joy in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, India, and Tibet. In “Chernobyl Legacy,” Paul Fusco shows the disaster’s grim effects with searing portraits of children disfigured by nuclear fallout. And in “Tour de France,” Danish filmmaker and journalist Joergen Leth presents Magnum Photos’ 60-year coverage of the biggest event in cycling.

Take a moment, click on Magnum in Motion: Photography Finds a Voice, read her article and then click on the link you will see on the right side of the page where it says: "The Aesthetic Hunter".

Click read more below to see what I discovered!