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Jan. 12th: Week in Photography
📸Your lens to the internet's most powerful photographs 📸 MOST POWERFUL PHOTO OF THE WEEK Ebrahim Noroozi / AP Photo Among smoldering ashes and metal, a rescue worker combs through the wreckage of the Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people that crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran on Jan. 8 . The crash, which claimed the lives of everyone on board, occurred only hours after Iran launched a barrage of missiles against US troops housed in Iraq.
The Canadian government claims that Iran mistakenly downed the commercial airliner with Russian-built anti-aircraft missiles, an accusation that the Iranian government denies. If that allegation is proven to be true, this sad and deeply troubling photograph could be a reminder of the human toll of war, which can impact the nations involved and bystanders alike.
📸FOR YOUR 👀 ONLY: SUE BARR ON GEN Z Photographer Sue Barr has shot everything from corporate clients to weddings and life events. She’s also a mother of a teenager, and her recent photo series My Space takes a different approach to her lifestyle photography by focusing on a topic in her own home: the bedrooms of Gen Z’ers.
My Space explores how members of the next generation express themselves in their personal spaces.
Here, Barr shares with BuzzFeed News a selection of portraits from her series and discusses the concepts and the process behind the work.
Can you talk a bit about how this idea developed for you?
The concept initially began as an idea to show my son that cleaning up his room would be beneficial to his life, but that backfired. I took a few pictures of him in his room and posted them on social media, and the images resounded with other teens and their parents. Instead of embarrassing my son into cleaning up his space, other parents invited me to see the chaos their kids lived in. L.H., age 17. Teens often think of their bedrooms as sacred spaces — how open were they to having their rooms photographed?
At first, no one wanted to let me see the bedrooms as they were. Nobody was really into the idea of exposing their personal chaos, but as I opened up a relatable dialogue about teens, the parents eventually agreed that this project had a higher purpose.
I told parents not to tell their kids I wanted to photograph their bedrooms, but that I’d be dropping by for coffee or some other social interaction. We would speak first about school, politics, and other personal and profound subjects. Sometimes they brought up something that was in their room and would invite me in to prove a point or show me something. I would then ask if I could do their portrait.
E.B., age 16. My goal was to document the moment. I spent less than 10 minutes in a room before the sessions ended, but in those 10 minutes, I was able to realize that the physical chaos of their space was a mirror to what they were feeling about becoming independent.
Since beginning work on this project, what has been one thing that has been entirely unexpected?
The universal feelings that all teens are experiencing. Realizing that their bedroom is often self-expression and their statement of independence. R.B., age 16. When someone sees this work for the first time, what do you hope they will take away from these images?
I hope everyone sees the chaos our next generation is experiencing and realize that we need to start taking care of our planet so they have a better world to enter. On a personal note, I want this work to be relatable to other parents. For me, it’s been a catalyst for lots of important conversations with my son, and I think that’s what I wish would happen for other parents and their offspring.
E.B., age 15.
📸THIS WEEK'S PHOTO STORIES 📸 This week saw fierce and dramatic retaliation from Iran for the US killing of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Our first photo essay reports from Tehran, where the funeral of Soleimani turned deadly following a massive stampede. Next, we follow up on the bushfires raging in Australia by focusing on the toll that these fires have had on wildlife. Lastly, our interview with photographer KK Ottesen on her portraits of iconic activists, which first appeared here on JPG, is published in full on BuzzFeed News.
Also, here are more photo essays published by our friends elsewhere. IRAN ON EDGE: THE FUNERAL OF QASSEM SOLEIMANI Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images Dozens of Iranians were killed in a stampede as crowds took to the streets of Tehran on Monday to mourn the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a US airstrike. SEE THE FULL STORY
AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRES AND THEIR DEADLY TOLL ON WILDLIFE Saeed Khan / AFP via Getty Images Millions of animals have died in raging bushfires in Australia, which have burned around 15 million acres and killed more than 20 people. SEE THE FULL STORY
PHOTOGRAPHER KK OTTESEN'S PORTRAITS OF COURAGE KK Ottesen "If we are able to see these activists as relatable human beings, then we can begin to listen to each other and maybe repair this frayed discourse that we need if we're going to move forward." SEE THE FULL STORY
📸YOUR WEEKLY PALATE CLEANSER China Daily via Reuters While the holiday festivities have ended for most of us, the Harbin Polarland Aquarium in Heilongjiang, China, offers an exciting and adorable way to keep the fun going with a real-life penguin parade!
"Welcome back to the work weird — see you next week!" —Gabriel and Kate “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” —Susan Meiselas
đź“ť This letter was edited and brought to you by the News Photo team. Gabriel Sanchez is the photo essay editor based in New York and loves cats. Kate Bubacz is the photo director based in New York and loves dogs. You can always reach us here.
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