My Brother's Keeper

Their names are Lewis Hine, Sebastiao Salgado, Eugene Smith, Tom Stoddart, and Igor Kostin. They tackled hunger, drought, ecological catastrophes, and HIV. They are documentary photographers, authors, and journalists who decided to aim their cameras at a series of unknown stories that had to be revealed, told, understood, and denounced. My brother's keeper gathers twenty exemplary stories of documentary photography. Each one is presented with an introductory text, and a selection of photographs conveys the sense and value of these extremely important reports. It is a peculiar way to track the history of our days, as well as the one of photography, of those concerned authors who "wanted to show things that had to be corrected, who wanted to show things that had to be appreciated." The introduction to the book is written by Susie Linfield, director of the Cultural Reporting & Criticism Program at New York University. Also includes photographs by Bob Adelman, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Carla Cerati, Luciano D'Alessandro, Lucinda Devlin, Donna Ferrato, Marc Garanger, Philip Jones Griffith, Ulrik Jantzen, Josef Koudelka, Peter Magubane, Juan Medina, Gilles Peress, Raghu Rai, Jacob Riis, David Seymour, and Li Zhensheng.