David Butow, a long-time subscriber as well as the author of the AP30 cover image, is currently covering the fires in Hawaii. In his post to IG yesterday, he tells why information has been so slow to emerge from the disaster. David’s coverage for this week's TIME, which focused on the work of being a journalist on the ground, includes the cover … Read the full Story >>
December 16, Mthatha, South Africa The dramatic clouds from the Eastern Cape rolled through the hills this evening, bringing rain to the sparsely-populated village of Qunu, the boyhood home of Nelson Mandela and the place where his body was buried yesterday. Just a day after the service, when thousands arrived in buses, fighter jets flew, and hundreds of journalists filed stories from satellite trucks … Read the full Story >>
Selma. Little Rock. Fruitvale Station. The crossroads of Florence & Normandie. These are well known as points on a map and as points of collision where events still carry both cultural and historic resonance. And now Ferguson, Missouri, a tiny suburb of St. Louis, is such a place. It is a modern Rorschach test in America's social fabric. What happened there in 2014 depends on how you … Read the full Story >>
With less than two weeks to go before the start of the Olympic Games, there's definitely something in the air. You can see it, hear it and feel it. First there's the infamous Beijing smog. According to a page-one story in the state-run China Daily, it has been at unhealthy levels for four days running despite the recent reduction of construction and factory output. … Read the full Story >>
In any other year hundreds of photographers, artists, creative directors, art buyers, and editors would have gathered in New York City for what has become a popular industry event, casually known as The Party. This year, for obvious reasons, the Angel Orensantz Center will not be hosting this event; its walls will not be papered with nearly 200 spreads representing the 348 selected images … Read the full Story >>
Former North Vietnamese Army Lieutenant and photographer, Doan Cong Tinh, 72, grins widely as he describes using his boots as ad hoc developing tanks while processing film in tunnels dug by fellow troops during the war. Speaking through a translator in Vietnamese, he further explains that “the officer’s boots were called ‘Buffalo Boots’, were leather and Russian-made, and thus superior to the Chinese … Read the full Story >>
Photographer David Butow, a longtime subscriber and contributor to DART, arrived in Ukraine the second week of March to cover the effects of war on ordinary people who were caught in the indiscriminate shelling of cities like Lviv and Chernevo. He covered the growing humanitarian crisis amid the escalating attacks, with people seeking shelter in makeshift camps in Poland, Moldova and Romania. David … Read the full Story >>
Thanks to everyone who sent in a Mountain story. Here's one from DART subscriber David Butow, of Oakland, CA. In the fall of 1986, I was 21 years-old with a semester to go before graduating from the University of Texas. My mentor, Ed Hille, invited me along for a six-week shooting trip through Asia, basing ourselves in Kathmandu for 10 days. It was the biggest, most exotic trip … Read the full Story >>
As I sit down to write this in Tokyo, at this moment, 11:37 at night on April 7, there is the most significant aftershock of the dozens I've felt in the two weeks since I've been here. This one lasted close to a minute. The main national TV channel NHK immediately shows a tsunami warning with a map of Japan and a red area … Read the full Story >>
OK readers, I know...you've probably been wondering when the DART Book Prize Contest would be back. Well, this is your week. It's always nice to steal a day at the beach on a workday, especially when it's as hot in NYC as it's been. So give this a try: Where in France am I? Correctly identify my exact location and get into the … Read the full Story >>
David Butow, whose shot from Nelson Mandela’s funeral made the cover of AP30, is a frequent contributor to DART. It must be stated that I have worked with David since our collaboration on China: 50 Years Inside the Peoples Republic back in 1998. Info. As the editor of that book, researched during an exciting—and dangerous—period as a new order was taking shape … Read the full Story >>
David Butow, an LA-based photojournalist and long-time contributor to AI-AP and DART, has been covering the fires that are destroying large sections of his hometown. Following are some of his images and thoughts from the past week. I first became aware of the fires from the news a few hours after they broke out on the west side of Los Angeles. The … Read the full Story >>
Well readers, you are probably tapping at your iCal distractedly, with September—and piles of things to schedule—just around the corner. But it’s still summer, at least for another ten days. So I invite you to submit, Where in France Am I? Correctly identify my exact location and get into the drawing for the last DART Book Prize Contest of Summer 2015. Hint The more information you … Read the full Story >>
Photographer David Butow was in Washington covering the recent James B. Comey and Jim Sessions hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee. What follows is a description of the world that is the high-profile Washington hearing. At 7:45 a.m. Washington time, more than two hours before the world will get its first public glimpse of James B. Comey since his firing by President Trump, there … Read the full Story >>
The latest generation to be misunderstood by their elders, according to author Steve Appleford, is the largest in the history of the United States. Numbering twice as many as GenX, the iGeneration, who are now aged 18 to 24, are often characterized, says Appleford, as "spoiled cry-babies and fashionable zombies, plugged into the virtual unreality of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, BlackBerry, Blu-Ray, Bluetooth, … Read the full Story >>
On October 20, 1991, fine art photographer Richard Misrach was in his Bay Area studio watching television coverage of the largest urban wildfire in United States history destroying thousands of homes in the nearby Oakland and Berkeley hills. A few days later, while driving through some of the affected neighborhoods, he realized the scenes of devastation were perfect examples of the same subject to … Read the full Story >>
Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch is now on view in Madison Square Park. Presented across four separate lawns in the park, Brier Patch will feature a total of one-hundred wooden elementary school-style desks that erupt with tree branches, cohering into tangled assemblies with complex and layered meanings. The accumulations of desks summon the grid arrangement of classroom seating. Referencing folklore traditions around the world, the … Read the full Story >>
If you want to take in some Chelsea galleries and only have an hour, you could check the listings and make a plan; that alone could take some time. Or you could pick a single block and hit the bricks. Each block is different, but if you want variety and high-density, some of the choice blocks include West 27th Street; West 26th Street, West … Read the full Story >>
GETTING THE NEWS ONLINE is the choice of many harried people, especially those who need to view the same events through different media. While this can speed things up, readers pay a huge price because the information we usually receive through news photos is largely missing. So if you think you're pretty well-informed, the month of May offers a chance to become extremely well … Read the full Story >>
Independent photojournalist David Butow sensed a dark undercurrent in the American political psyche while covering the early days of the Trump campaign back in 2016. As he followed events in the upper Midwest rustbelt and rural towns, he concluded that the ever-changing narrative of the highly unpredictable candidate signaled dramatic times to come. So he moved to Washington, D.C. for an immersive experience … Read the full Story >>
