All Photos © Philip Poupin. Above: A young fighter of the Shabab shows his grenade on the road to the frontline near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The Shabab (meaning “youth’”) have taken part in the insurrection against the government of Muammar Qaddafi for more than a month.

Philip Poupin, a photojournalist based in Afghanistan, has covered conflict and human rights issues for six years, most recently covering the conflict in Libya from the rebels’ side. “These pictures were taken before the coalition strikes on the frontline. It was during the retreat of the Rebels before the allies decided to help them to avoid a massacre.” Now out of Libya for the time being, he writes, ” I wanted to stress the Youth who first went to the streets to chase the regime of Qaddafi,” before seizing weapons and launching civil war. Photographing the “mobile frontline” has  been one of the most intense experiences of his life.  “Rockets and bombs were firing around my head. I could clearly hear the whistle of the round passing by a few meters away. Two times I saw big rounds landing some 20 meters next to me but they did not explode. One landed in the sand and rebounded like a rugby ball.  I have been in firefights before, like in Afghanistan and the Congo. But nothing compared with this one where both sides fight with artillery and very few with … kalashnikovs.”

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All Photos © Boogie

Photographer Boogie says of his recent project, “I’ve recently started experimenting with wet plate collodion process. It was really amazing to feel like an alchemist, connected to past times, mixing chemicals and pouring plates in my tiny dirty basement. There is dust and dirt everywhere and temperature varies, so the results are unpredictable. After doing the first few plates, I realized that something about this process captures people’s darker side so I named the series DEMONS. The whole series was done in Belgrade in late Fall and Winter, it was gray and gloomy, exposures were long, and you could see people going crazy trying to keep still and staring in the lens.” To see more of Boogie’s work click here.

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All Photos © Pieter Ten Hoopen. Above: Earthquake in Pakistan, Balakot.

Pieter Ten Hoopen left for Sweden in 1999 and studied photojournalism at the Nordens Fotoskola. He then worked as a photojournalist for four years and became represented by the Moment agency (Sweden). He has been published in major Swedish newspapers and international magazines and has also taught photojournalism at various Scandinavian schools. He received the “Memorial Mario Giacomelli” Prize in 2008 and also received the First Prize for a story in the daily life category of the World Press Photo. In 2009, he won the Award of Excellence in the portrait series category of the POY. In 2010, he won two World Press Photo Awards in the portraits and daily life categories for his series on Hungry Horse, Montana.  Featured here is a gallery of images from a variety of Pieter’s projects. To see more of his work click here. Read more about Ten Hoopen’s process on digging into stories deeply, here.
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© Tadej Znidarcic

Tadej Znidarcic’s portraits explore how Uganda’s proposed ban on homosexuality would affect the country’s gay and lesbian citizens. Each subject, shown with their faces hidden, tell their stories in text that accompanies Znidarcic’s photos. Several images from his project, “Being Gay In Uganda,” are currently on view at the Open Society Foundation in New York as part of its Moving Walls exhibition, which supports documentary projects addressing issues of social justice and human rights around the world. To see more of Znidarcic’s work click here.

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© Tim Flach. Above: English Springer Spaniel.

“Suddenly there’s a clattering flutter of wings, the pheasants wheel up into the sky and the hunter can get his gun to work. And who can make that happen to order? The springer spaniel, that’s who—springer by name and by nature, the dog ‘springs’ or ‘flushes’ the birds out of the undergrowth. As with the pointer, it is skilled in scenting and tracking down game but then comes the crucial difference: while the pointer stops and indicates, the springer will bound in and flush the birds. The breed can be traced back to the early 1800s when it was first clearly separated from the cocker spaniels, which are smaller and associated with hunting woodcock. In those days, the springer might flush so that a trained falcon would take the birds. Today, the breed has found its skills also adapted to policing work, where, for example, it was used as a sniffer dog for explosives after the 2005 London bombings. Other applications of its scenting ability include finding illegal immigrants, mobile phones in prisons, and bumblebee nests. This picture was taken on the Elveden Estate in Norfolk, England which was developed into a great shooting property in the nineteenth century by the Maharaja Dalip Singh who, in exile from his homeland in the Punjab, becamepassionate about raising pheasants.” -  Lewis Blackwell, text from Flach’s book, Dogs Gods.  Tim Flach is a photographer based in London. To see more of his work click here.