Langelle Photography

Name: Langelle Photography
Address: Cattaraugus, NY, US
Telephone: +17165365669

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Langelle Photography

Using Photojournalism and Social Documentary Photography to expose social, economic and ecological injustice.

Published Portraits of Struggle photography book in 2024. Photos spanning 50+ years & 6 continents of peoples’ struggles for land and justice.

12/27/2025

ICYMI: [Field Notes] Episode 8: Riot clowns, frogs, and court jesters (2007)

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-8-riot-clowns-frogs-and-court-jesters-2007/

“Sometimes the most powerful acts of defiance don’t look serious at all. They look like play. Way back court jesters teased their kings and got away with saying what no one else could.”

In today’s episode of Field Notes, award-winning photographer (and GJEP co-founder) Orin Langelle shares the story behind the iconic photo taken in Germany in 2007 of a riot clown standing amongst the rank of riot police, one of whom could not help but smile.

12/20/2025

ICYMI: [Field Notes] Episode 5: The most dangerous time for journalists (1977)

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-5-the-most-dangerous-time-for-journalists-1977/

FROM THE TRANSCRIPT: I’m dedicating this to the journalists still in Gaza who are attempting to show the world what is happening in the Israeli war in Gaza and its people and in the more than over 200 journalists that died documenting the reality they were witnessing. Journalists in Gaza are being targeted and killed as are some of their family members who have been killed also, murdered intentionally, assassinated to intimidate other journalists from reporting. These are war crimes.

But the journalists carry on in the danger hoping to document the truth of what’s happening to the people there. And most journalists hope that this work can help stop the atrocities and what the United Nations, the International Court of Justice and others claim is genocide. This is not only a war on Gaza it’s a war on journalism and freedom of the press and it’s a war on the truth. To further the censorship, foreign journalists are not allowed into Gaza. The Israeli government is doing its best to stop any documentation that would alter their narrative.

[...]“The Concerned Photographer finds much in the present unacceptable, which he tries to alter. Our goal is simply to let the world know why it is unacceptable.”

And that’s why I’m a photographer. In my career I photographed in six continents for over five decades.

12/13/2025

ICYMI: [Field Notes] Episode 6: WTO Kills Farmers (2003)

LISTEN: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-6-wto-kills-farmers-2003/

FROM THE TRANSCRIPT: The fifth World Trade Organization WTO conference took place in Cancun, Mexico between September the 10th and 14th, 2003. I took this photo at 2:19 in the afternoon of the 10th, seconds after South Korean farmer Lee Kyung Hae stabbed himself on a fence to my left.

During the protest on September the 10th, people attempted to reach the conference site but were blocked by 8-foot steel fences. Lee Kyung Hae climbed one of those fences and stabbed himself in the chest. He was wearing a sign that read “WTO Kills Farmers.” He later died from his injuries.

Lee Kyung Hae was the president of the Federation of Farmers and Fishermen of Korea. He was protesting the devastating impact of neo-liberal trade policies on small farmers, arguing that cheap imports from developed nations were forcing them into poverty. Lee Kyung Hae was 56 years old and a father of two. His self sacrifice became a powerful and tragic symbol for the anti-globalization movement. In a note he left he said, “I am taking my life so that others can live.”

12/06/2025

ICYMI: Field Notes [Episode 10] People over plantations – the fight for land in Brazil

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-10-people-over-plantations-the-fight-for-land-in-brazil/

From the transcript: I shot this photograph on May 30th, 2023 in Brasilia, Brazil. That day, Indigenous peoples held major demonstrations here in the capital and across the entire country to oppose a law passed by Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies that would effectively erase Indigenous land titles. If this law were to stand, Indigenous territory could be handed over to extractive industries mining, ranching, logging, industrial agriculture, and massive monoculture eucalyptus plantations.

Indigenous rights and the health of Brazil’s ecosystems are closely tied in this struggle. Industrial eucalyptus plantations for pulp and paper are spreading fast, clearing out Cerrado and Mata Atlântica forests and threaten the Amazon. These “green deserts” don’t support wildlife and they drain water sources, making it harder for nearby communities to grow food or access clean drinking water.

11/20/2025

In this episode of Field Notes, documentary photographer Orin Langelle takes us to Brasilia, Brazil, where Indigenous peoples mobilized in 2023 against a law threatening to erase their ancestral land rights. Through Orin’s lens, we witness the fight against industrial eucalyptus “green deserts” and the communities resisting extractive industries to protect their forests, water, and future.

LINK TO BLOG : https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-10-people-over-plantations-the-fight-for-land-in-brazil/

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We invite you to join us for Field Notes, a new video series featuring award-winning photojournalist and documentary photographer Orin Langelle, co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project and author of Portraits of Struggle.

Join Orin as he shares the stories behind the captivating images that document interconnected global struggles for ecological, social, and economic justice across six continents and five decades.

If you appreciate this oral history project and other vital global justice media work, please DONATE TODAY: https://globaljusticeecology.org/donate-today/

11/08/2025

Via : Yesterday we received a letter from Lonko Juan Pichun Collonao of the Lof Temulemu, whose struggle we have been reporting on for some time.

Previously, we had organized the delegation to meet with and document the stories and experiences of Mapuche leaders and activists about the intense repression they are being subjected to by the Chilean state due to their efforts to reclaim ancestral territories from the timber industry.

To read his letter in full, please visit: https://globaljusticeecology.org/letter-from-lonko-juan-pichun-collonao-of-the-lof-temulemu-translated-from-spanish/

We also recently published an episode from our esteemed Field Notes series (by GJEP co-founder Orin Langelle⁩ )

Watch/listen to the episode here: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-7-struggle-for-mapuche-territory-2024/

Photo: Orin Langelle | Via [Field Notes] Episode 7: Struggle for Mapuche Territory (2024)

11/06/2025

In this episode, documentary photographer Orin Langelle takes us behind the lens at the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali — a pivotal moment when Indigenous Peoples stood up against being silenced.

Through one powerful photograph, we uncover the story of protest, exclusion, and solidarity — and how one image helped shift the global conversation on climate justice.

WATCH/LISTEN: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-9-indigenous-peoples-reject-un-backed-unjust-false-solutions-2007

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We invite you to join us for Field Notes, a new video series featuring award-winning photojournalist and documentary photographer Orin Langelle, co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project and author of Portraits of Struggle.

Join Orin as he shares the stories behind the captivating images that document interconnected global struggles for ecological, social, and economic justice across six continents and five decades.

If you appreciate this oral history project and other vital global justice media work, please DONATE TODAY: https://globaljusticeecology.org/donate-today/

10/23/2025

"Sometimes the most powerful acts of defiance don't look serious at all. They look like play. Way back court jesters teased their kings and got away with saying what no one else could."

In today's episode of Field Notes, award-winning photographer Orin Langelle shares the story behind the iconic photo taken in Germany in 2007 of a riot clown standing amongst the rank of riot police, one of whom could not help but smile.

LINK TO FULL POST: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-8-riot-clowns-frogs-and-court-jesters-2007

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We invite you to join us for Field Notes, a new video series featuring award-winning photojournalist and documentary photographer Orin Langelle, co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project and author of Portraits of Struggle.

Join Orin as he shares the stories behind the captivating images that document interconnected global struggles for ecological, social, and economic justice across six continents and five decades.

If you appreciate this oral history project and other vital global justice media work, please share, like, and DONATE TODAY: https://globaljusticeecology.org/donate-today/

10/09/2025

NEW from [Field Notes] Episode 7: Struggle for Mapuche Territory (2024)

"In October of 2024, I was part of a three-week investigative and human rights delegation organized by Global Justice Ecology Project to look into and document the serious repression of the Mapuche Indigenous People by the Chilean government. We also wanted to see what impacts the pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations have on the Mapuche."

"We traveled to many Mapuche communities to document the stories and experiences of the Mapuche who were involved in the recovery of their ancestral lands stolen by the timber company under the Pinochet dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. In fact, Pinochet's constitution is still in effect and now the timber company, Arauco, is a major corporation on stolen Mapuche territory. They also control the false narrative of the Mapuche as "terrorists" trying to squelch the legitimacy of the Mapuche's attempt to recover their own lands."

LINK TO POST: https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-7-struggle-for-mapuche-territory-2024/

09/18/2025

NEW from [Field Notes] Episode 6: WTO Kills Farmers (2003)

In Cancún, 2003, South Korean farmer Lee Kyung Hae climbed a fence outside the WTO and fatally stabbed himself in protest. His message: “WTO Kills Farmers.”

Lee’s sacrifice became a global rallying cry for sovereignty and justice.
🎥 Watch the new Field Notes episode — https://langellephoto.org/field-notes-episode-6-wto-kills-farmers-2003

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