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New York, 1935. The city is overflowing with immigrants from Europe. Among them are Kurt Safranski, Ernest Mayer and Kurt Kornfield. A few years before they were still successful professionals in the flourishing world of publishing and newspapers in the Weimar Republic. Safranski had been an editor...

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Photographing Hope on India’s Lifeline Express

August 30 | By Michael Coyne | Posted in Photojournalism

Tweet Are photojournalists unduly focused on the dark side of life — dead bodies, conflict, misery and the like? Many people seem to believe this. They think we would climb over loving couples, cooing babies and content grandparents just to shoot the only negative scene at an event. Tweet

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