les stone

les stone
Location
Catskills, New York, USA
Birthday
May 18
Title
Photojournalist
Company
Les Stone Photo
Bio
During the last several decades, critically acclaimed photographer Les Stone has chronicled the human cost of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Cambodia and Haiti, among other war zones. The winner of several World Press Photo Awards and Picture of the Year Awards, Stone vaulted to prominence in 1989 when he photographed the savage, bloody beating of the newly elected Vice President of Panama by thugs of Generalissimo Manuel Noriega. The image revealed the true nature of Noriega's repressive regime. Since then, Stone has covered stories often ignored by the mainstream media, including the deadly legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the plight of Iraqi Kurds fleeing the first Gulf War, and the deployment of child-soldiers in Africa. http://www.lesstone.com

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Salon.com
JANUARY 26, 2012 2:49PM

Freaking about Fracking

    For those of you who are unfamiliar with Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and the impending and threatening start of Fracking in NY.  I took  a trip to PA last week. A truly frightening mess that New Yorkers wherever you live, upstat… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011 7:15PM

Coal Mining in Appalachia

I am currently working on a documentary on coal mining in McDowell  County, West Virginia, deep in the heart of Appalachia. 

McDowell County is one of the poorest and most remote counties in the United States. In fact Welch, the county seat, had at one time the highest concentration of… Read full post »

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