Reporters Without Borders and VII publish “100 photos for press freedom”

Source: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:00 PM
Author: Reporters Without Borders and the VII Photo Agency
Reporters Without Borders in partnership with the VII Photo Agency on Wednesday published the book “100 photos for press freedom”, featuring VII photographers’ images on issues ranging from war, poverty and displacement  and countries from Afghanistan to Russia and North Korea.
An App version of the book will be released internationally on May 15 through the Apple Store.
Here are 10 photos included in the book, published here courtesy of Reporters Without Borders and the VII Photo Agency.
  • Ethnic Cleansing: Paramilitaries known as Arkan's Tigers kick and kill Bosnian Muslim civilians during the first battle for Bosnia in Bijeljina, Bosnia, on March 31, 1992. The Serbian paramilitary unit was responsible for killing thousands of people during the Bosnian war, and Arkan was later indicted for war crimes. Ron Haviv/VII
    Ethnic Cleansing: Paramilitaries known as Arkan's Tigers kick and kill Bosnian Muslim civilians during the first battle for Bosnia in Bijeljina, Bosnia, on March 31, 1992. The Serbian paramilitary unit was responsible for killing thousands of people during the Bosnian war, and Arkan was later indicted for war crimes. Ron Haviv/VII
  • A young woman is seen in the Juba landfill, where she lives, in South Sudan, on Nov. 5, 2010. This was photo was part of a project to increase the quality of the security and pollution standards in South Sudan. Stefano De Luigi/VII
    A young woman is seen in the Juba landfill, where she lives, in South Sudan, on Nov. 5, 2010. This was photo was part of a project to increase the quality of the security and pollution standards in South Sudan. Stefano De Luigi/VII
  • Street children bathe at a care centre in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2005. Some facilities are available in exchange for light labour. These consist of very basic schooling, food and lodgings. Some centres have been criticised for being abusive to the children. Marcus Bleasdale/VII
    Street children bathe at a care centre in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2005. Some facilities are available in exchange for light labour. These consist of very basic schooling, food and lodgings. Some centres have been criticised for being abusive to the children. Marcus Bleasdale/VII
  • Fleeing residents try to find refuge outside of Basra, southern Iraq, on March 30, 2003. Humanitarian conditions inside the city worsen each day. British soldiers manning the last checkpoint before the city search residents for weapons, fearful of potential suicide bombers. The situation is very confusing: Military medics try to give as much assistance as possible, but people still pass out from heat exhaustion. Antonin Kratochvil/VII
    Fleeing residents try to find refuge outside of Basra, southern Iraq, on March 30, 2003. Humanitarian conditions inside the city worsen each day. British soldiers manning the last checkpoint before the city search residents for weapons, fearful of potential suicide bombers. The situation is very confusing: Military medics try to give as much assistance as possible, but people still pass out from heat exhaustion. Antonin Kratochvil/VII
  • A Chechen fighter flees the presidential palace in Grozny, Russia, in January 1995. Christopher Morris/VII
    A Chechen fighter flees the presidential palace in Grozny, Russia, in January 1995. Christopher Morris/VII
  • Egyptians fight against each other in Tahir Square in Cairo, Egypt, February 2011. Ron Haviv/VII
    Egyptians fight against each other in Tahir Square in Cairo, Egypt, February 2011. Ron Haviv/VII
  • Young girls leave a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) to gather firewood in Darfur, South Sudan, in June 2005. For some, the work will take more than 7 hours, lead them past government checkpoints and leave them exposed to attacks. All the people express fear and wish there were a more secure way to gather wood, essential for cooking in the camp. Girls as young as 8 have been raped, attacked and killed trying to get wood. Ron Haviv/VII
    Young girls leave a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) to gather firewood in Darfur, South Sudan, in June 2005. For some, the work will take more than 7 hours, lead them past government checkpoints and leave them exposed to attacks. All the people express fear and wish there were a more secure way to gather wood, essential for cooking in the camp. Girls as young as 8 have been raped, attacked and killed trying to get wood. Ron Haviv/VII
  • Somalis wave their mobile phones doing what is called among locals as "catching" - trying to catch or pickup the mobile phone signal in neighbouring Somalia - as they stand on Khorley Beach, also called Dead Water Beach, in Djibouti City, Djibouti, in February 2013. To stay in contact with their family and friends back home, Somalis purchase a Somalia SIM card from the black market in Djibouti City, place the SIM in a mobile phone and swing the phone about in specific areas where a signal might be caught. The best time to catch the signals is at night. It is roughly 30 miles (48 km) from Djibouti City to the border of Somalia where the nearest Somali cell tower is located. John Stanmeyer/VII
  • An oil spill from an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well in Oloibiri, Niger Delta, in June 2004. Wellhead 14 was closed in 1977 but has been leaking for years, and in June of 2004, it finally released a spill of over 20,000 barrels of crude oil. Workers subcontracted by Shell Oil Company clean it up. Ed Kashi/VII
    An oil spill from an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well in Oloibiri, Niger Delta, in June 2004. Wellhead 14 was closed in 1977 but has been leaking for years, and in June of 2004, it finally released a spill of over 20,000 barrels of crude oil. Workers subcontracted by Shell Oil Company clean it up. Ed Kashi/VII
  • A Kosovar Albanian refugee child peeks out of a small hole in her tent in Kukes, Albania, near the border with Kosovo, on April 7, 1999. After the 1997 collapse of Albania's economy, widespread looting and ethnic conflict broke out in Albania and Kosovo, a majority Albanian province in southern Serbia, which led to the mass exodus of thousands of ethnic Albanians in 1998 and early 1999. Nearly all of these 850,000 refugees returned to Kosovo starting in mid-1999, many seeking revenge against the Serbs. Joachim Ladefoged/VII
    A Kosovar Albanian refugee child peeks out of a small hole in her tent in Kukes, Albania, near the border with Kosovo, on April 7, 1999. After the 1997 collapse of Albania's economy, widespread looting and ethnic conflict broke out in Albania and Kosovo, a majority Albanian province in southern Serbia, which led to the mass exodus of thousands of ethnic Albanians in 1998 and early 1999. Nearly all of these 850,000 refugees returned to Kosovo starting in mid-1999, many seeking revenge against the Serbs. Joachim Ladefoged/VII
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