Photo Journalism at Its Best

		From the desk of Don Hazen
Greetings, Photo from Andrew Lichtenstein's new book, Never Coming Home. No matter how good the writer, there are some stories that words alone just cannot tell: the grief a mother feels after losing her son to a senseless war; the fear that grips a city for months after it has been bombed; the robotic trance of a country whose President is drunk with power. That's why we're excited to tell you that AlterNet has recently launched a new, weekly multimedia series. Every Thursday we will feature images from some of the world's best documentary photographers. We believe in the importance of not only reading about the world, but seeing it. Edited and produced by famed photographer Nina Berman, and co-sponsored by Michael Shaw's popular progressive blog BAGnewsNotes, the series provides an eyewitness look at the issues important to us all: democracy, civil rights, war and peace, the economy and the environment. Photo by Paolo Pellegrin, from the new book Double Blind. We launched this series last week with photos from Andrew Lichtenstein's, "Never Coming Home," moving and haunting images of the painful price of the Iraq occupation. Yesterday, we brought you photographs from award-winning Paolo Pellegrin's "Double Blind," which captured the aftermath of the war in Lebanon, foreshadowing what a war on Iran might look like. Photo from Christopher Morris' new book, My America. And we will continue next Thursday with images from White House photographer Christopher Morris, who reveals the hypnotic way Americans once followed President Bush. We hope you enjoy the series. Let us know what you think by emailing us at feedback@alternet.org. Thank you for being a part of our community. Cheers, Don Hazen PS -- Are you receiving AlterNet's headlines and breaking news in your inbox? Go here to sign up now!