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Destiny’s Children: A Legacy of War and Gangs by Donna DeCesare follows the lives of four young people marked by an experience of war and its aftermath. 

The photographs are part of a current project and exhibition at the Museo Tecleño in El Salvador, Desarraigos (Uprooted), which combines photography, theatre and workshops for youth and university students. The project brings viewers into realities Central American youth face at home and in the Diaspora. The combination of still photography from the 1980s to the present, and life stories from the website installation Destiny’s Children provoke a reflection about the past and the present and the ways that young people are represented as a consequence of the ongoing process of uprooting.

Conceived by photographer Donna DeCesare, the project is sponsored by the Open Society Foundations, the Universidad Centroamericana and the Museo Tecleño in El Salvador.

Nazraeli Press recently announced the release of La Creciente, a book featuring the work of Argentinian photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg. The monograph focuses on work Chaskielberg created in the remote Paraná River Delta region of Argentina, where he has lived since 2007. Departing from his previous experience as a photojournalist, Chaskielberg decided to reenact, rather than simply document, aspects of daily life in the Delta, which for most of its population consists of fishing, farming, and traveling the river. In an interview for Time's photography blog, Lightbox, Chaskielberg said that he met locals randomly, on piers and in general stores; and eventually found several people willing to participate in his elaborate, hours-long shoots, always executed in the middle of the night. Taking up to ten-minute-long exposures and using a combination of strobes, flashlights, lanterns, and the moon as his only light sources, Chaskielberg's resulting images place his subjects in beautifully lush, almost surreal dramatizations of typical life on the Delta. What emerges from his gracefully staged, yet informative images is a body of work more akin to Gustav Courbet's paintings of farmers and stone breakers - acclaimed as spawning the Realist movement. A selection of photographs from the same series of Chaskielberg's work is currently on view at Yossi Milo Gallery, until July 29. Written by: Juliana Halpert

Created in 2009, the Getty Images' Grants for Good program was established for nonprofits to positively and effectively change the world through personal artistry and imagery. Getty Images also offers editorial grants awarded each year at the Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France.This year’s winners are photographers Gwenn Dubourthoumieu and Alex Masi, along with communications strategists from GVA Studio and the Bhopal Medical Appeal. For more information about the Getty Images Grants for Good programme, please visit www.gettyimages.com/grants . To access additional information on this year’s winners, visit http://imagery.gettyimages.com

The long-awaited book of essays by photographer and long-time Director of the MFA Photography Program at the Yale School of Art will be celebrated Wednesday, June 29th at 6:30pm at Aperture. There will be a booksigning preceded by a discussion between Papageorge and video artist/photographer John Pilson, who is one of the artist's former students. The book grew out of his weekly lectures for his first-year students, familiarizing them with his particular point-of-view on the oeuvres of some great photographers: Atget, Brassai, Cartier-Bresson, Frank, Evans, Winogrand, Adams.... These classes, a "Core Curriculum", indeed, helped shape a generation of important photographers working today.

Poem from the essay, "Words for Pictures":

Mid-spring, mid-morning—into the park
and downtown through the shimmering air,
each flush and pulse of light flashing quicksilver
through a net of dust, leaf and pollen.
Step by step, a camera hanging from my neck
beats my heart.
Green like the incontrovertible season,
I move through the high, untended, tow-tipped grass,
supplicant, trainee, hunter, mule,
out here to photograph,
to call this intoxication to account
and press these lawns and palings
into pictures.
—from a notebook dated 1978, by Tod Papageorge

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Facing Change: Documenting America was founded in 2009 by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers Anthony Suau and Lucian Perkins, and is a contemporary counterpart to the work done in the 1930s and 1940s by photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration. Facing Change announced a new collaboration with the Library of Congress, which will allow the Library to publish books based on the Facing Change images, and to add the photographs to their extensive and historical archives.

Other contributors to Facing Change include Stanley Greene, Alan Chin, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Carlos Javier Ortiz, David Burnett, Debby Flemming Caffery, Danny Wilcox Frazier and Andrew Lichtenstein.

http://facingchange.org/

In honor of the collaboration, Time Magazine's photography blog LightBox has asked each of the photographers of the Facing Change collective to choose a photograph from the original FSA archive, and discuss how it has influenced their own work. Read more here.