My brother's keeper

From mid-nineteenth century America, in which Jacob Riis uses his camera in his strive to show everyone “how the other half lives" to Lucinda Devlin's more recent production which exposes the death chambers found in American prisons - the so-called omega suites- we can keep track of the history of our days as well as the history 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.“

Their names are Lewis Hine, Sebastião Salgado, Eugene Smith, Tom Stoddart, Igor Kostin; they have tackled hunger, drought, ecological catastrophes, AIDS: they are documentary photographers who have decided to aim their cameras at a series of stories that had to be revealed, told, published and known.

My Brother's Keeper gathers 22 authors and 20 exemplary stories of documentary photography. Each one is presented with an introductory text and an accurate selection of photographs conveys the sense and value of these extremely important reports.