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Two photographers I’ve met briefly whose exhibitions I’d like to see….

Luc Delahaye’s panoramic photographs of world events which are currently showing in the J. Paul Getty Museum are the subject of this LA Times article (sorry, registration required) and small photo gallery.
I’ve always loved Delahaye’s work, after being switched on to his Russian road journey book Winterreise by my friend Jeremy (check out his excellent blog btw, and article in this month’s Digital Journalist).
I ran into Luc whilst covering the recent fighting at Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon earlier this year. Frankly, I didn’t recognise him and was perplexed as to why someone would be running around a conflict zone with a large format camera - it is somewhat unusual. It was only near the end of the conversation, on a rooftop watching shells land on the camp below, that I realised it was him and I wish I’d had a bit longer to chat. There’s some more pictures here and an exhibition brochure to download here, but of all the work that needs to be seen printed really large on a wall, this is probably it.

Tim Hetherington recently had an exhibition entitled “No Condition Is Permanent: Liberia in Transition” at the The Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island, NY. Tim and I both covered the Liberian civil war of 2003 although from different sides - he travelled with the LURD rebels throughout whilst I was in the besieged capital Monrovia - and we only had the chance to meet briefly at the end when it was all over. He, James Brabazon, and Jonathan Stack turned their incredible footage into the documentary film “Liberia: An Uncivil War“. So I’d have been very happy to see this exhibition of his photos of Liberia covering the period 2003-2007 - but unfortunately I’ll have to make do with the slideshow.