Capt. Mohamed Qasem of the Afghan Army, left, lighting a cigarette for Lt. Jason Davis of Greenville, S.C. At the personal level, the Sangesar attack was a nightmarish betrayal for the units involved, whose commanders initially struggled to figure out how the Afghans and Americans who share the base could possibly cooperate again.
Great photos in today’s NY Times, accompanying this front page article. I went to elementary school with the photographer, Bryan Denton, who was also featured last year on the NYTimes Lens blog.
Prototype for waterproof + breathable sleeping bag sock, to make #OWS sidewalk occupations legible as collective protest
See also: Not An Alternative at Exit Art
This post begins with a photograph of Anton Hammerl, taken a few days before he was shot and killed in Libya, in the spring of 2011 … Anton was survived by his wife, Penny Sukhraj, and their three young children, who live in London. He was a freelancer, not a staff photographer for a newspaper, wire service or magazine. This means that his family — which has lost him as a husband, father and breadwinner — has no institutional support.
A photo auction called Friends of Anton is being held to raise money for Hammerl’s family.
(Source: cjchivers)
