In November 2006, Mohammed ben Kalish Ezab and Omar ben Salaad pulled off one of the most stunning scoops in the annals of investigative journalism. Ben Kalish and Ben Salaad, photojournalists for Al-Zur (the Qatar-based news agency), followed the trail of Dr. Fasqiyta-Ul Junat, a leader of Al Qaeda's military wing. Their discovery, which would have been hard to believe if not for the photographic evidence, was that the military genius was in reality an actor and singer who had appeared in soap operas aired on Arab TV networks. He was even the public face of the Mecca Cola advertising campaign.

Álvaro Leiva comenzó se carrera profesional de fotógrafo en 1989. Desde entoces ha movido por 80 países. Sus instantáneas aparecen en numerosas revistas de viajes. En el 2000 comenzó la obra sobre ríos del mundo. Todos los años visita, por lo menos durante un mes , algunos de estos cauces fluviales. A finales de 2007 ha publicado su primer libro "Río". Editado por la Expo Zaragoza 2008, recoge parte de su trabajo por el Mississippi, Amazonas, Ganges, y Níger.

Andre Kertesz: The Polaroids, chronicles his final, and perhaps most private body of work- a collection of curious, abstracted images of life flickering at the window of his Washington Square apartment.

ARMED AMERICA: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes .
Photos by Kyle Cassidy

The photographer began with simple curiosity and ended with a 15,000-mile trek across America, as he puts a face on the estimated 70 million or so gun owners in the U.S. Once in their homes, he asked one simple question--"Why do you own a gun?" These images hold their answers.

Central Park (Aperture 1995), is a series of photographs made over a four-year period. These images portray the urban park environment through landscape, nature and humanity. The body of work was exhibited at the Burden Gallery in New York, the Parco Gallery in Tokyo and the New York Historical Association.

INSTAMATIC KARMA: Photographs of John Lennon .
By May Pang

There have never been photos of John Lennon like the ones presented here. Taken by May Pang, Lennon's girlfriend from 1973 to 1975, they show Lennon in a variety of settings: at work, at play, at home and away. With the captions she has written for the images, they tell a simple story of their time together.

Paul Fusco (United States, 1930) began as an army photographer in Korea, and thereafter worked as a photographer for LOOK Magazine. He has been a member of the Magnum photo agency since 1973, and published in magazines such as Time, Life and Newsweek.

A new mode of masturbating into the next millennium

Anyone who has seen her Digital Diaries has intimate knowledge of Natacha Merritt. And of her friends, male and female, and her acquaintances as well. But Merritt's favourite motif is herself: she poses almost every minute of the day for her camera, taking photographs of herself in bed, in the shower, having sex with her friend, masturbating with and without accessories, from every imaginable angle and with the camera usually at arm's length.

Merritt, born 1977, works with a digital camera, the Polaroid of the 90s, breaking down the most intimate details into universally accessible bits of information. Eric Kroll came across Natacha Merritt by chance in the internet, where she had put several of her photographs. This was something that left the tradition of classical pin-up and fetish photography, in which Kroll himself works, far behind it.

Face to face with Merritt's photographs one can reflect on intimacy and publicity in the digital age, on narcissism even, or on radical self-exploration with the help of the camera. But this all sounds better as Natacha Merritt herself once put it: in her view, she has found a new mode of masturbating her way into the next millennium.
Facts Natacha Merritt. Digital Diaries