Philip Jones Griffiths Pity the poor fighting man in Vietnam. The problem was always too much water or too little. In the early days of the war, water was shipped from California, the indigenous sort considered unsafe. L (...)
ater it was made "palatable" with huge quantities of chlorine. Wiser men know to fill up with the natural variety. The battle for Saigon.Vietnam. 1968. Vietnam Inc. (1971). © Philip Jones Griffiths | Magnum Photos
Carl De Keyzer The Great Passion Play rehearsal. In this small town, the life of Christ is played 8 months a year. Every night app. 4000 spectators come to see the show. The cast consists of app. 200 volunteer ac (...)
tors who live in the town and have their normal jobs during the day, at night they play the life of Jesus. Their is a reserve Jesus actor in case the first one gets ill. The city of Jerusalem was partly reconstructed and serves as a decor, their is also a Bible land and a 40 meter high Christ statue (Christ of the Ozark's). USA. Eureka Springs. The Great Passion Play, Bible Land. 1990. © Carl De Keyzer | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen With its lush Black Sea location, Abkhazia is trying to attract Russian tourists. Here, at a road stop on the tour bus route, an entrepreneur, who charges tourists 10 rubles to photograph his bear, (...)
catches his breath between busloads. Abkhazia, Georgia. 2005. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos