In October 1962, right after the Cuban missile crisis, Che Guevara, invited Look magazine reporter Laura Bergquist to Havana.
Category: Society
The Sioux by John Vachon, 1955
John Vachon, a taciturn, brooding, hard-drinking photographer, traveled around America and around the world for nearly forty years taking photos first for Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later for LOOK magazine.
A Menorah in Germany, 1931
In 1931, Rosi Posner, wife of the last rabbi of Kiel took this photo of the family menorah from the window ledge of the family home looking out on to the building across the road decorated with Nazi flags.
A Day with the Algerian Liberation Army, 1958
In 1954, the war for Algerian independence broke out and women joined ranks to fight for their country as paramilitary fighters, nurses, cooks, fundraisers.
Life on the Scrap Heap by Peter Marlow, 1985
Peter Marlow was sent by the Sunday Times Magazine to cover Liverpool in the wake of the riots there, when he came across people scavenging through a municipal rubbish tip looking for items to sell so that they could feed their families.
The Vertical Journey by Diane Arbus, 1960
Diane Arbus’s portraits of six “typical” New Yorkers, from her photo essay for Esquire, The Vertical Journey.
The Untouchables by William Albert Allard, 2003
The Untouchables number some 160 million, about 15 percent of India’s people. Almost the only way an Untouchable can rise in Indian society is via a federal quota system.
Prague University Shootings, 2023
When I saw the above photo of students hiding from the gunman behind the Czech Republic’s worst-ever mass shooting, I thought it would be on frontpages the next page. Sure enough, it was.
Mount Pinatubo Eruption by Philippe Bourseiller, 1991
Eruption of Pinatubo coincided with a strong tropical storm which created massive lahars and caused island of Luzon to be covered with a snowy volcanic ash that in some places reached a depth of 13 inches.
The Siege of Derry by Don McCullin, 1971
On the Sunday before Christmas 1971, in an edition filled with advertisements for Xmas gifts, the Sunday Times magazine published as its lead story a portfolio of 12 photographs about the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland.