Archive for the ‘New Work’ Category

Egyptian Election Symbols

Friday, December 2nd, 2011
A campaign poster seen in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 28, 2011. Candidates in the elections get assigned sometimes bizarre symbols, such as rockets, cashier or onions, so that illiterate voters can identify them on the ballot papers.

A campaign poster seen in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 28, 2011. Candidates in the elections get sometimes bizarre symbols assigned. Amomng them are a rocket, a cashier and an onion. The symbols help illiterate voters to identify their candidate on the ballot papers.

According to rumors, the candidate with the onion was not happy about the election symbol he got. The candidate with the crocodile symbol insisted that it is clearly a male crocodile, even though his opponents suggested that it has certain female traits…. The series on Egyptian Election Symbols is available at Redux.

Recent Work: Corruption in India’s Rural Health System

Monday, September 19th, 2011
Suman S.C. lies in labor in a Primary Health Center in Harchandpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, July 30, 2011. In a government scheme to improve maternal health, women receive 1400 Indian Rupees if they give birth in a clinic. The Primary Health Centers provide basic health care in rural India. In recent years the Indian Government has tried to improve rural health care by  creating the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and providing it with massive funds. While the situation has improved the NRHM has also opened the door for widespread corruption. Recently, two doctors administering NRHM funds have been killed.

Suman S.C. lies in labor in a Primary Health Center in Harchandpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, July 30, 2011. In a government scheme to improve maternal health, women receive 1400 Indian Rupees if they give birth in a clinic. In recent years the Indian Government has tried to improve rural health care by creating the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and providing it with massive funds. While the situation has improved the NRHM has also opened the door for widespread corruption. Recently, two doctors administering NRHM funds have been killed.

“The health infrastructure of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, is abysmal and plagued by corruption and a lack of oversight by the central government.” Recent work for The New York Times accompanying an article by Lydia Polgreen.

Beyond Gaddafi

Sunday, September 11th, 2011
A vandalized poster of Muammar Gaddafi seen in Tripoli, Libya, Sept. 5, 2011.

A vandalized poster of Muammar Gaddafi seen in Tripoli, Libya, Sept. 5, 2011.

I have had the privilege to witness the last days of the revolution in Libya reporting for the Financial Times Germany. At times it was disturbing, at times gratifying. Here are some photos. They can be licensed through Redux in the US or Laif in Germany.

An old man walks through one of Muammar Gaddafi's houses in Bab al Azizya his compound in Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 26, 2011.

An old man walks through one of Muammar Gaddafi's houses in Bab al Azizya his compound in Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 26, 2011.

Abdul Rahman Muftar Ali Ahmed Sharif, 23, shows where he was bound to be tortured in a factory in Khoms, Libya, Sept. 7, 2011. During the last days of the Gaddafi Regime he was tortured and held in a shipping container with nine others, who all died of suffocation or dehydration. Sharif was taking part in protests against Gaddafi and he think he was arrested because someone saw him spraying anti-government grafitti.

Abdul Rahman Muftar Ali Ahmed Sharif, 23, shows where he was bound to be tortured in a factory in Khoms, Libya, Sept. 7, 2011. During the last days of the Gaddafi Regime he was held in a shipping container with nine others, who all died of suffocation or dehydration. Sharif was taking part in protests against Gaddafi and he thinks he was arrested because someone saw him spraying anti-government grafitti.

A dead body lies in the streets of Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 26, 2011. Bystanders claimed that he was a black African mercenary.

A dead body lies in the streets of Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 26, 2011. Bystanders claimed that he was a black African mercenary.

Rouven Mansour, a Libyan rebel who was born and grew up in Germany, prays inside a school in Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 30, 2011.

Rouven Mansour, a Libyan rebel who was born and grew up in Germany, prays inside a school in Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 30, 2011.

New Work: Madrassa in India Finding its Way

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Here is a slideshow of a story I recently shot for the New York Times: “Mullah in Debate of Tradition vs. Modern Schooling”

New Work: Medevac

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

American soldiers evacuate a wounded Afghan to a medical evacuation helicopter of Task Force Shadow Charlie Company 6-101 Dustoff, near Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2010. The Afghan suffered from a gun shot in the knee.

American soldiers evacuate a wounded Afghan to a medical evacuation helicopter of Task Force Shadow Charlie Company 6-101 Dustoff, near Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2010. The Afghan suffered from a gun shot in the knee.

Click on the image above to see a slideshow of my recent work on US Army flight medics working in Southern Afghanistan.

New Work: Nightshelter for Misereor

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
A woman sits in a homeless shelter in Delhi, India, Sept. 30, 2010.

A woman sits in a homeless shelter in Delhi, India, Sept. 30, 2010.

Here is a slideshow of a story I shot for the German NGO Misereor.

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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

US Army soldiers including flight medics of Task Force Shadow Charlie Company 6-101 Dustoff evacuate an American soldier, Southern Afghanistan, Nov. 28, 2010. The soldier got hit by shrapnel from an improvised explosive device. He suffered wounds at his head, chest and arms.

US Army soldiers including flight medics of Task Force Shadow Charlie Company 6-101 Dustoff evacuate an American soldier, Southern Afghanistan, Nov. 28, 2010. The soldier got hit by shrapnel from an improvised explosive device. He suffered wounds at his head, chest and arms.

I’ve just returned from an embed with an US Army medical evacuation unit based near Kandahar. Less blurry photos will come soon.

New Work: Coal Minors

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Anil, 15, crawls out of a so called rat hole in a coal quarry in the Jaintia Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya, India, Aug. 6, 2010.  There are an estimated 5000 mines in the Jaintia Hills, and according to NGOs 70.000 children as young as seven work there. The conditions are extremely dangerous. According to workers about four people per month die in the mines.

Anil, 15, crawls out of a so called rat hole in a coal quarry in the Jaintia Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya, India, Aug. 6, 2010. There are an estimated 5000 mines in the Jaintia Hills, and according to NGOs 70.000 children as young as seven work there. The conditions are extremely dangerous. According to workers about four people per month die in the mines.

Under life-threatening conditions, an estimated 70,000 children work in the coal mines in the Jaintia Hills in northeast India, according to a children’s rights organization working to end the practice. The youngest of the miners are just 7 years old.

Read more here…

See the gallery here…

Work in Progress: Kashmir

Saturday, July 31st, 2010


Kashmir – 2010 – Images by Daniel Etter

New Work: Mystic Islam

Sunday, June 20th, 2010
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Women pray at the shrine of the Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Delhi, India, June 10, 2010.

In the medieval lanes of Nizamuddin in Delhi two opposing schools of Islam clash: mystic Sufis and orthodox Tablighi. Former seek God within themselves, latter seek redemption in afterlife. They are united in eternal conflict.

Read the story by William Dalrymple here. And see my photos here.