photojournalism

With increasing incidents of political unrest, seem to come increasing reports of attacks on photographers. Images caught by Reuters photographer Hugo Correia, American Foreign Press photographer Patricia Melo being attacked by a policeman in Lisbon yesterday. Melo was covering a strike by workers to protest austerity measures imposed on Portugal as a condition of the 78-billion euro bailout provided to the country by other European nations.

A week of conflict, celebration, high-speed sports, new perspectives...and strawberries. (Photo: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Chris Arnade is a well-paid banker during the week and a photo hobbyist on the weekends, which really isn’t that rare. However, what is more surprising is his choice of photo subject: prostitutes, drug addicts and the homeless. He first went to the Bronx neighborhood of Hunts Point in 2010, as a volunteer at the Hunts Point Alliance for Children. He began talking to the local addicts and prostitutes he encountered and was fascinated by their stories.

Today on American Photo, journalist and VII Photo co-founder Ron Haviv gives a gripping behind-the-scenes look at his work in Libya documenting the fall of Tripoli. It's an incredibly detailed portrait—told with words, pictures and video—of what photojournalists experience in the chaos of conflict. Check it out here.