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Alan Chin Photo February 24, 2011

Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: A Hundred Miles

From the Tunisian border to Tripoli, it is only a hundred miles along the Mediterranean coast highway. At any moment, we journalists gathered here calculate, the revolution will reach this border and we'll be able to enter. But when or how that might happen, we can only speculate.

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Alan Chin Photo February 20, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back

Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.

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Alan Chin Photo February 12, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: "Yesterday I was a Demonstrator. Today I Build Egypt"

As celebration of Mubarek's downfall continues into a second day and night, its a time for exaltation, clean up -- and an eye to what comes next.

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Alan Chin Photo February 11, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Mubarak No More!!!

Egypt Uprising - Day 18. Tension skyrockets. Mubarak resigns. Joy and celebration reign. Alan Chin: It's a combination of Prague '89 and New Years Eve.

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Alan Chin Photo February 10, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Extreme Shock and Rage. (It Seems Even the Generals Thought Mubarak Would Resign.)

Day 18 in Cairo: It seems the entire world was expecting that Mubarak would step down.  In the early hours, Alan sent just three pictures. In their simplicity they track the story of this profound, stunning and ultimately, crushing evening.

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Alan Chin Photo February 9, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: The Opposition Recharging

Day 16 in Cairo: From outside the Parliament to inside the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to Tahrir Square where protest organizers are manning the power strips, the uprising is recharging.

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Alan Chin Photo February 8, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: A Crowded Square

Egypt Uprising, Day 15: As the political situation settles into a stalemate, protesters returned in force to Tahrir Square energized by the words of a former Google executive released from detention.

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Alan Chin & David Degner in Cairo: Traffic and Camping

Middle East Uprising, Day 14: The Egyptian government is anxious to let the world know that life is returning to normal. But despite the current calm, the anxiousness is well deserved.

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Alan Chin Photo February 6, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Power In Flux

BagNews contributing photographer Alan Chin's first dispatch from Cairo. How my cameras were impounded, and the mood on the street.

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Culture Focus Photo December 25, 2010

Alan Chin: Merry Christmas! Bonfires All Along The River

Christmas Eve: Bonfires light the way for Father Christmas along the Mississippi River

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Culture Focus Photo October 16, 2010

Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Individual Wars

Jeremy Lange's fourth post from the War At Home: The individual experiences of war.

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Afghanistan Photo September 26, 2010

Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Surge Babies

Jeremy Lange's third post from the War At Home: Death in uniform, surge babies, and cupcakes.

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9/11 Photo September 13, 2010

Alan Chin: Not Exactly a Party

As opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.

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9/11 Photo

Alan Chin: Black Tea

What do we think when we see a Black Tea Party Member? We've got some questions:

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9/11 Photo September 12, 2010

Alan Chin: 9/11 Anniversary Ground Zero Protests; We're Just All(ah) Americans Here

Whereas the media's visual coverage of the Ground Zero protests tend to frame them as a battle of left vs. right, or protectors of freedom of religion vs. defenders of the victims of 9/11, Alan Chin's photos from Lower Manhattan yesterday take a more practical view.

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Alan Chin Photo August 19, 2010

Alan Chin: Compensation and Loss

Photographer Alan Chin in New Orleans: Ken Feinberg takes over the compensation claims process for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Afghanistan Photo July 5, 2010

July 4th: Dover and New York

The Fourth of July in America: Scenes from Dover and New York

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Alan Chin Photo June 30, 2010

Alan Chin: The Ocean On Fire

Alan Chin flying over the Gulf Oil Spill on board a BP helicopter.

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