Yalda Moaiery, Photojournalist, known for war, protest, natural disaster, and conflict photographs

Making the World Smaller

These days, no one gives a second thought to our ability to look at things that are half a world away. But it wasn’t always that way. In the early years of photography, this element captured the public’s fancy. A photographer in an exotic land could easily and inexpensively document the strange sights he saw and send those images home to people who never dreamed they would ever be able to see such unusual things.