Photographer Peter van Agtmael on seeing America through Trump rallies, COVID-19, the ongoing racial reckoning and the U.S. Capitol attack
Peter van Agtmael
Peter van Agtmael photographed West Virginia's coal miners for TIME, and tried to get beyond the stereotypes.
"These photos represent the spirit of what I saw and felt in those days," says Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael
Opinion: Peter van Agtmael addresses the controversy behind Steve McCurry's manipulated photos
Having survived an IED blast that killed four of his fellow servicemen and left him with burns covering almost 40% of his body, Iraq War Veteran Bobby Henline is a stand-up comedian today, healing scars that are not so physical.
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Art Greenspon was in his 20s while documenting the Vietnam War for the Associated Press. Days before being wounded, he made a photograph so incredible that war photographer David Douglas Duncan declared it the "best picture yet of the Vietnam War." It now graces the cover of the agency's new book, a major photographic history of the conflict.
Nearly two years ago, photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed in Misrata, Libya. A new documentary on Hetherington's life, produced by friend Sebastian Junger, premieres on HBO April 18, 2013. Here, photographer Peter van Agtmael reflects on the memory of his colleagues and the legacy of their lives.
For this week's issue of <i>TIME</i>, photographer Peter van Agtmael covered Newt Gingrich's primary victory in South Carolina along with all the local color.
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