| derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists
who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned agency. Designed
from the outset to be an efficient, technologically enabled distribution
hub for some of the world's finest photojournalism, VII
has been responsible for creating and relaying to the world many of
the images that define the turbulent opening years of the 21st century.
Together they document conflict - environmental, social and political,
both violent and non-violent - to produce an unflinching record of
the injustices created and experienced by people caught up in the
events they describe. |
Ron Haviv
Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict
and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around
the world since the end of the cold war with a special focus on exposing
human rights violations, he has covered conflict and humanitarian
crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans.
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"The
situation in the DRC has been and continues today to be intolerable.
Although we are very late in our small attempt to tell the
world what is happening – every moment counts –
and we need to do something." Ron Haviv |
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