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Vaughn Wallace

(He/Him)
  • Content Director, Blink
Falls Church, Washington, D.C.
Covers:  international news, breaking news, world, photography, visual rhetoric, multimedia, long-form storytelling, history, historical archives
Enviro journalist & photo editor, cyclist, pilot, historian, public lands enthusiast. Formerly: @NatGeo. @AJAM. @TIME.

Vaughn Wallace’s Journalist Portfolio

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Trapped in a Nightmare

Trapped in a Nightmare

Al Jazeera America — As the CAR falls into violence, 23,000 refugees - traumatized, malnourished and dying - remain trapped in the town of Boda.

A Child Called Tragedy: Iraqi Identity in Crisis

A Child Called Tragedy: Iraqi Identity in Crisis

Al Jazeera America — As Islamic State fighters spread terror, Iraq's once diverse society faces extinction

Photographer on the Ground in South Sudan

Photographer on the Ground in South Sudan

Al Jazeera America — 800,000 refugees. Massive food shortages. Ongoing violence. As the world's newest country falls further into crisis, photographer Fabio Bucciarelli documents the harsh realities.

Kennedy's Assassination: How LIFE Brought the Zapruder Film to Light

Kennedy's Assassination: How LIFE Brought the Zapruder Film to Light

LIFE.com — It's unlikely that any 26 seconds of celluloid have ever been discussed and dissected as thoroughly as the chilling scene that Abraham Zapruder captured that chilling day in Dallas.

Behind the Picture: Aleppo's River of Death

Behind the Picture: Aleppo's River of Death

Time Magazine — After more than 70 bodies were discovered in a river outside Aleppo, Syria, TIME spoke with two photographers — Thomas Rassloff and Alessio Romenzi — about their experiences recording the aftermath of what is allegedly the largest massacre of the civil war in Syria.

Tracking Down Lewis Hine's Forgotten Child Laborers

Tracking Down Lewis Hine's Forgotten Child Laborers

Time Magazine — In the last ten years, Joe Manning has tracked down the life stories of more than 350 child laborers in Lewis Hine’s documentary photography for the National Child Labor Committee.

A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them Most

A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them Most

Time Magazine — A decade has passed since the United States invaded Iraq. To mark the anniversary, LightBox presents a selection of the most moving and iconic photography from the conflict with the first-person stories behind the images.

Rare Color Photographs from the Trenches of World War I

Rare Color Photographs from the Trenches of World War I

Time Magazine — Rare, vibrant color autochromes documenting the soldiers and battles of the First World War.

Watching the protests in Kiev: One photographer's perspective

Watching the protests in Kiev: One photographer's perspective

Al Jazeera America — Brendan Hoffman has photographed the protests unfolding since December 2013.

Hong Kong Yesterday: The Pearl of the Orient in the 1950s

Hong Kong Yesterday: The Pearl of the Orient in the 1950s

Time Magazine — The layered black and white photographs of Hong Kong Yesterday are the visual diary of a patient observer; a diary that, save for the lack of diesel-spewing motorbikes, cell phones and neon advertisements, truly feels like it might have been written — and photographed — yesterday.

Syria's Agony: The Photographs That Moved Them Most

Syria's Agony: The Photographs That Moved Them Most

Time Magazine — As the civil war in Syria reaches even newer levels of horror, TIME asked 28 photojournalists to reflect on their most powerful work from the conflict over the last year.

The Past Comes Alive: History in High-Definition

The Past Comes Alive: History in High-Definition

Time Magazine — There's always something interesting about history-it's often just a matter of knowing where to find it. That's the idea behind Shorpy.com, an eye-popping collection of historical imagery that casts a modern light on an astonishing array of photographs long-hidden in the Library of Congress archives.

In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy's Wrath

In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy's Wrath

Time Magazine — As Hurricane Sandy drew near, TIME commissioned five photographers to document the storm. The first time an Instagram image made the cover of TIME Magazine.

150 Years Later: Picturing the Bloody Battle of Antietam

150 Years Later: Picturing the Bloody Battle of Antietam

Time Magazine — On the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, Alexander Gardner’s battlefield photographs of America’s bloodiest day remind us of the arresting power of conflict photography.

The Mohawk Ironworkers: Rebuilding the Iconic Skyline of New York

The Mohawk Ironworkers: Rebuilding the Iconic Skyline of New York

Time Magazine — For more than a century, Mohawk ironworkers have helped shape New York City’s iconic skyline, guiding ribbons of metal into the steel skeletons that form the backbone of the city. On the 11th anniversary of September 11th, LightBox presents Melissa Cacciola’s tintype series of the Mohawk ironworkers helping to raise One World Trade Center.

Rémi Ochlik's Revolutions

Rémi Ochlik's Revolutions

Time Magazine — This spring, after French war photographer Rémi Ochlik was killed during fighting in Homs, Syria, a group of close friends and colleagues felt their obligations to the photographer weren't complete.

Robert Capa's Unpublished Color Photographs

Robert Capa's Unpublished Color Photographs

Time Magazine — For many, Robert Capa is quintessential photojournalist. Here's a look at some of his rare, unpublished color negatives.

To Have and To Hold: Gay Marriages in NYC Begin

To Have and To Hold: Gay Marriages in NYC Begin

Time Magazine — TIME sent photographers to each of New York City's five boroughs to document the harmonious unions taking place throughout the city on the first day gay couples were allowed to legally marry in the state.

Mourning JFK: A Second-Grader's Heart-Wrenching Letter to LIFE, 1963

Mourning JFK: A Second-Grader's Heart-Wrenching Letter to LIFE, 1963

LIFE.com — The assassination of President John Kennedy - 50 years ago this week - was one of those rare historic events: a moment that, even five decades later, feels at-once intensely personal and globally significant. People struggled to fathom the murder of a vibrant national leader, while mourning, often thousands of miles away, along with the young family he left behind. Communities raised money for memorials. Trade groups sent flowers to the White House. Companies and organizations held moments of silence. Everywhere one looked, there were reminders of the slain president. Others, expressing their grief in more private ways, wrote letters.

The Hero in the Cowboy Hat

The Hero in the Cowboy Hat

Time Magazine — After the tragic events at the Boston Marathon, a hero in a cowboy hat emerged.

Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue

Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue

Al Jazeera America — Renowned documentary photographer Eugene Richards bore witness to the ravages of the crack epidemic that gripped the Northeast in the 1980s.

The Code for Farewell

The Code for Farewell

Al Jazeera America — Saying Goodbye to the Last Seminole Code Talker

'Sometimes you cannot bear holding a camera'

'Sometimes you cannot bear holding a camera'

Al Jazeera — Our eyes tend to turn to the Horn of Africa only when things go badly. And often, for readers of the world's media outlets, it is through the lens of Mohamed Abdiwahab that we see Somalia.

The Mock Prison Riot: Where guards play jail

The Mock Prison Riot: Where guards play jail

Al Jazeera America — This is DroneShield's first time at the Mock Prison Riot, and the organizers are so excited, they have put out a press release. Founded a year ago by Brian Hearing and John Franklin, who between them have 25 years of experience in the defense and aerospace industries, DroneShield has as its main product a mountable device that detects the approach of unmanned aircraft by the sound of its propellers. Remote-controlled flying machines, it turns out, have been causing problems at prisons for a while. In 2009 a toy helicopter was spotted flying over the wall of a prison in the United Kingdom, possibly to deliver drugs.
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