ZORIAH - A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLOG

Changes to This Site

I havent been updating this sight recently, mainly due to the fact that I have grown to absolutely hate TypePad (the company that puts out the software that this blog runs on.)  Making posts has always been time consuming, but thanks to TypePad's bugs, poor  interface and their even worse customer service, it has become too much to handle.  As I am sure many of you notice, photos often display at different sizes, captions are sometimes one, two or three lines below an image, and sometimes actually IN the image itself.  Fonts change attributes and size for no reason and things are just generally a mess.  So, until I am able to get everything switched over to WordPress, we will have to continue to deal with this messy design.

To keep myself sane I am going to keep things simple until I am running this site on a new platform.  I will not be posting as many feature stories until I have made the switch.  In the meantime, I will be making some simpler posts that will hopefully keep me from throwing my computer out the window.

So, for the coming weeks I will be making more posts about photojournalism.  I will draw your attention to a few of my favorites, point you to their sites and let you discover some new and amazing images.  I will post some links to general photojournalism sites for those of you interested in learning more about the business side of things.  Of course I will still post some recent images here and there (I have many more from my most recent trip to Haiti to share, an entire project in Bangladesh which I will post in several parts as well as my new series of negative sandwiched images of war fused with images of top models.)

Thank you all for your support and patience and I look forward to bringing you a new and improved blog over the coming months.

Model Betheny Merola - Iraq War

This "negative sandwich" features model Betheny Merola fused with an image of hundreds of machine gun shell casings lining the floor of an abandoned tank in Taji, Iraq.  This series is designed to bring light to social and humanitarian issues by combining images of fashion with images of conflict, crisis and disaster.

  
 More images from this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

More stories about Iraq:

Anbar Suicide Bombing

Iraq Militias

Sadr City

A Return to Baghdad ER

Iraq War Refugees

Of course there are many more posts on Iraq if you feel like browsing this blog further.

Haitian Earthquake Photojournalism - Two Months After The Disaster - Part 1

These images were taken in Port au Prince, Haiti two months after the earthquake and first set of images which were taken days after the quake.  It was important for me to return to Haiti after most of the foreign press had left, as I knew that the need and suffering would be just as great, and yet getting far less attention.  I encourage other photographers and journalists to continue to go to Haiti and document the gravity of the situation there even though newspapers and magazines have all but stopped publishing such images and reports.

A young girl peers through a rusted, tin gate in an impoverished neighborhood that was hit hard by the earthquake.  Most families continue to live outdoors in Haiti and with rain and hurricane seasons approaching, their situations will become more and more difficult.

Bodies piled on top of each other in the morgue of Port au Prince's main hospital.  International medical aid has been a true blessing for Haiti, however there is still a great deal of need for treatment as well new injuries coming in daily as people continue to search through partially destroyed buildings for usable items with no safety equipment or training.

A woman prays in front of a damaged church located within the main hospital complex. 

  
 
 
A man, most likely mentally ill and still living in the rubble of one of Haiti's most damaged areas, walks through the unstable remains of home near where he and his mother live.

Medical and other waste on the ground in the main hospital complex.

International Medical Corps staff tend to a Haitian man who was severely injured by falling stones while clearing rubble on one of the many cleaning crews which are now clearing the city by hand.

A worker tries to bring down a large, concrete and stone wall with a small hammer.  Workers are left with basic or no equipment and little or no training, tasked with removing all of the rubble from Port au Prince so rebuilding can begin.

Haitian Earthquake - Two Months On - Story Coming This Week

Later this week I will be presenting the first installment of my new series of images shot in Haiti two months after the earthquake.  Here is a preview:

 Clothes hang to dry on the skeleton of what was once a home in Port au Prince, Haiti.

Model Bo Don - The Gaza Strip

Designed to bring light to social and humanitarian issues by combining images of fashion with images of conflict, crisis and disaster, this "negative sandwich" features model Bo Don fused with an image of a boy climbing on a massive pile of rubble in bombed out neighborhood in Gaza City.  

 

More images from this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 

More stories on Gaza:

Original image before negative sandwich

Gaza Tunnels

Landscapes of War - Gaza

Gaza Medical Crisis