Photography is not my favorite artistic medium, not even close. (yes, photography is an art, haters) There are simply too many mediocre photogs (or worse) and too many lucky snaps weighing down the "scene". However rare, the images that document compelling ideas and stories are the ones that make an immediate emotional/intellectual impact. (As a social studies teacher, my eye has a particularly obvious focus)
Mustafah Abdulaziz may be that rare photographer. His captured ideas and stories themselves may not be new: parental priorities/decisions, cultural revolution, drug use, etc, but they provide documentation that shocks, angers, saddens, and/or enlightens. Abdulaziz's work has frequently graced the pages of the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal and the above photograph recently won him the Nikon Emerging Professional Grant and admission to the prestigious Missouri Photojournalism Workshop.
Check his work and that of fellow MJR collective members here. As they put it, MJR represents the next wave of great image makers. We are staking our claim in the future and will do our best to make this a cornerstone for everyone who finds themselves waiting to take the next big step towards becoming the next big thing.
(via Hamburger Eyes)
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