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  1. A discussion on "New York Times" photographs
    A discussion on "New York Times" photographs

    with Kathy Ryan, James Nachtwey, Peter Galassi and more on Jun 7, 1996

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Gilles Peress is an internationally renowned photojournalist. Peress began working as a photographer in 1970, embarking on an intimate portrayal of life in a French coal mining village as it emerged from the ashes of a debilitating labor dispute. He then joined Magnum Photos, the prestigious photography agency founded by Robert Capa.

Peress soon traveled to Northern Ireland to begin an ongoing 20-year project about the Irish civil rights struggle. One of his most famous pictures from this period captures a young man named Patrick Doherty moments before he was killed whilst crawling to safety in the forecourt of the Rossville flats during Bloody Sunday (1972). “Power in the Blood,” a book that synthesizes his years of work in Northern Ireland, is the first part of his ongoing project called “Hate Thy Brother”, a cycle of documentary stories that describe intolerance and the re-emergence of nationalism in the postwar years.

Peress has also completed other major projects, including a photographic study of the lives of Turkish immigrant workers in Germany, and a recent examination of the contemporary legacy of the Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar.

Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Peress