http://www.battlespaceonline.org/invitations/200810/

This show includes additional photos by Zoriah, which are also viewable at Battlespace Online.

http://www.battlespaceonline.org/jared-moossy/afghanistan-2008.shtml

Thanks to Jared Moossey for participating, and be sure to spread the word about this exhibition…

For more information about Newswear, please visit their site at http://www.newswear.com — there’s information there about their line of special tools for photojournalists. 

If you’d like information about sponsorship in general, just email us at support@novembereleven.org; we’ll be happy to answer any questions or listen to your ideas.

http://daylightmagazine.org/podcast/june2008

As always, the Battlespace exhibition continues online at http://www.battlespaceonline.org.

The exhibition—also on view at Gallery FCB and at the Aurora photo agency in New York City—features work by 20 photographers: Ghaith Abdul Ahad, Christoph Bangert, Guy Calaf, Andrew Cutraro, Balazs Gardi, Ashley Gilbertson, Eros Hoagland, Jason Howe, Yuri Kozyrev, Teru Kuwayama,Rita Leistner, Ben Lowy, Jehad Nga, Lucian Read, Moises Saman,Stephanie Sinclair, Peter van Agtmael, Luke Wolagiewicz, Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, and Stefan Zaklin

The photographs were made in Afghanistan and Iraq, but they depict neither country. They are glimpses of an alternate reality built upon them. They are fragments, captured from behind the walls of concrete superbases—or outside them, through nightvision goggles and ballistic eye shields.

The images collected here do not provide a comprehensive account of these wars, or an understanding of these nations or their peoples. They reflect the personal experiences of a group of photographers, presenting an unsanitized view of the theater of war.

Battlespace: The environment, factors, and conditions which must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission. This includes the air, land, sea, space, and the included enemy and friendly forces, facilities, weather, terrain, the electromagnetic spectrum, and information environment within the operational areas and areas of interest. —U.S. Department of Defense

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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As you know, November Eleven is a nonprofit organization. We’re pleased to announce now that the IRS has recognized our charitable mission, and given us 501©3 status. Your donations to November Eleven are fully tax-deductible, and we hope that this will help you to continue supporting us in the future. (This also applies to the donations you’ve already sent.) Your donations also allow us to continue offering services like Lightstalkers free of charge, and accessible to all. Thank you for your support, and please continue. The more you give, the more we can accomplish. You can make your tax-deductible contributions 24 hours a day, vianovembereleven.org/support.

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Ajmal Fund & Operation AzraIn 2007, we’ve been able to expand our scope. In May, we launched the Ajmal Fund, which supports and benefits the families of the Afghan fixers. In July, we launched Operation Azra, to benefit victims of acid burning in Pakistan. Both programs have successfully raised thousands of dollars, thanks to you.

We operate these projects because we’re committed not only to creating better, more independent reportage, but because we recognize a humanitarian responsibility to help those who make it possible—either as fixers or as subjects.

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Lightstalkers continues to grow

Finally, and as always, we continue to operate Lightstalkers.org. Each month, over 70,000 visitors browse among our 19,000 member profiles and 97,000 images, and it continues to expand. Although it’s a lot of work to keep the lights on, we’re still able to launch new features and improvements on an ongoing basis.Again, we’re able to do this because of your financial support. We expect Lightstalkers to continue to grow, and hope that it continues to be relevant to you and your work.

Thanks again to Srinivas, Michelle, and all our other supporters. Lightstalkers remains dependent on member support for its survival and improvement, and we’ll continue our non-corporate policy of random acts of kindness and generosity with unscheduled thank you gifts to our supporters.

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La lucha continua, N11