David Burnett: Reporters Without Borders
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  • 100 Photo de David Burnett, Pour la Liberté de la Presse, Reporters sans frontières, 2010
  • Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, May 11, 2009
  • Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on his last campaign tour before being elected. Missouri, USA, October 18, 2008
  • The New York Stock Exchange on the day the Lehman Brothers firm filed for bankruptcy protection, Wall Street, New York City, New York, USA, September 15, 2008
  • The New York Stock Exchange on the day the Lehman Brothers firm filed for bankruptcy protection, Wall Street, New York City, New York, USA, September 15, 2008
  • Crowd at National Stadium (Bird's Nest), during the Summer Olympics, Beijing, China, August 16, 2008
  • Usain Bolt, Jamaican 100m gold and world record holder breaks the Men's 200m world record and wins his second of three gold medals. Summer Olympics, Beijing, China, August 20, 2008
  • South Korea vs. The Netherlands in a women's field hockey preliminary match, Summer Olympics. Beijing, China, August 12, 2008
  • South Korea defeats Cuba 7-4 in the baseball preliminaries, Wukesong Stadium, Summer Olympics. Beijing, China, August 19, 2008
  • Barack Obama, the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate attends an Independence Day picnic and visits the Mining Museum with wife, Michelle, and daughters, Malia (right) and Sasha, in Butte, Montana, USA, July 4, 2008
  • Hillary Clinton the New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate celebrating her victory in both the Texas and Ohio primaries. Columbus, Ohio, USA, March 4, 2008
  • The swimming hole of the Falling Creek Boys Camp in Tuxedo, North Carolina. USA, July 2007
  • Army Sergeant Eugene Simpson, wounded in Tikrit, Iraq, visits his new living facilities built by "Homes for Our Troops", a support group for handicapped veterans. Dale City, Virginia, USA, April 2007
  • US President George W. Bush on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate fallen Americans of all wars. Virginia, USA, May 29, 2006
  • Winter Park at Rollins College in Orlando, Florida, USA, June 2006
  • The kitchen of a private home in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 2006
  • When the levees of the London Avenue Canal collapsed in the aftermath of the hurricane Katrina, two meters (over 6 feet) of heavy sand carried by the water covered Gentilly and the 7th Ward area. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 2006
  • Herb Gettridge (born in 1924) stands in the kitchen of the house he built in the 50s damaged by hurricane Katrina. Lower 9th Ward. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 2006
  • US President George W. Bush during his "War on Terror" statement, surrounded from left to right by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers, Army Generals John Abizaid and George Casey in the Rose Garden at the White House. Washington DC, USA, September 28, 2005
  • John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee campaigning in Madison, Wisconsin. USA, September 15, 2004
  • The Chinese women's synchronized swimming team, Summer Olympics. Athens, Greece, August 2004
  • Ronald Reagan the former two-term American president lies in state at the US Capitol Rotunda. Washington DC, USA, June 10, 2004
  • Men's 120k Ski Jump, Winter Olympics, Park City, Utah, USA, February 2002
  • Secret Service agents at JFK Airport await the return by helicopter of President George W. Bush from a visit to Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11, New York City, New York, USA, October 3, 2001
  • United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on a plane to Pakistan for a meeting with Afghan Taliban leaders. March 2001
  • American Vice-President Al Gore during the last days of his unsuccessful presidential campaign against George W. Bush. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 2000
  • US President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary leave the capital for a short vacation accompanied by their daughter Chelsea and dog Buddy, following the disclosure of his denied affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern. Washington DC, USA, August 18, 1998
  • After two weeks of being hounded by the press and shadowed by the FBI, Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern, is photographed sipping a Cosmopolitan martini at Morton's Bar. Washington DC, USA, February 21, 1998
  • Bill Gates "the world's richest man" and Microsoft founder & CEO, flying business class between Mumbai, India and Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1997
  • Bill Gates "the world's richest man" and Microsoft founder & CEO, flying business class between Mumbai, India and Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1997
  • US President Bill Clinton, campaigning for re-election just before victory. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, November 1996
  • The men 20km-walk finish line at the Summer Olympics. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 26, 1996
  • Following her triumph in the 400m, the French runner Marie-José Pérec wins gold in the 200m at the Summer Olympics. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, August 1, 1996
  • Million Man March, organized by Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam. Washington DC, USA, October 16, 1995
  • The Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, at the Presidential Palace in front of a mural of the Sierra Maestra mountains where the revolution began. Havana, Cuba, February 1995
  • The aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower en route to Haiti as part of the American military intervention in September, 1994
  • World War II veteran Bob Williams who parachuted into Normandy on "D-Day," June 6, 1944, at the age of 22, walks from the landing zone near Utah Beach following his commemorative jump fifty years later. Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France, June 1994
  • Fishermen float on inner tubes at dawn. Havana Bay, Cuba, March 1994
  • Fu Mingxia, 10m Springboard Diving, China's thirteen-year-old diver wins her first of four Olympic gold medals. Barcelona, Spain, July 27 1992
  • President Mikhail Gorbachev in his Kremlin office with an aide. Moscow, USSR, June 1990
  • US President George H. W. Bush on the White House lawn on his way to greet President Carlos Perez of Venezuela. Washington DC, USA, May 1990
  • A cross-section of the Berlin Wall shortly after it was breached. East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, November 11, 1989
  • A cross-section of the Berlin Wall shortly after it was breached. East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, November 11, 1989
  • East German troops at the Brandenburg Gate morning after the wall, erected in the summer of 1961 by East Germany with the support of the Soviet Bloc, was declared opened by the East German authorities. German Democratic Republic, November 10, 1989
  • Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter, later to be disqualified for using illegal substances, wins the 100m men's final at the Summer Olympics. Seoul, South Korea, September 24, 1988
  • Preparing for the arrival of American President Ronald Reagan, making a stopover on his way to the Moscow Summit in the USSR. Helsinki, Finland, May 28, 1988
  • Facing foreclosure following his bankruptcy, farmer Art Schweers sits on a bed frame in the farmhouse where he raised his children, in Gravity, Iowa. USA, February, 1987
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Ronald Reagan, the American president, with their respective interpreters, during their first official meeting. Geneva Summit, Switzerland, November 21, 1985
  • Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, and François Mitterrand, the French president, at a summit on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, May 2, 1985
  • Famine, young boy in a refugee camp in Mekele, Tigray region. Ethiopia, November 1984
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