A book published last week, Inside Insurgency, features a photo of mine taken while with the SPLA in Sudan during a 2006 trip.
Once considered nationalists, many insurgent groups are now labeled as terrorists and thought to endanger not just their own people, but the world. As the unprecedented trends in political violence among insurgents have [...]

The UNFPA is using another batch of images surrounding population dynamics and climate change on their current website.

This particular image, used on their current home page, was taken in the dusty cattle camps of southern Sudan. The woman in the photo was gathering and spreading burned  cow manure so that later on those in that village could spread [...]

My web portfolio was recently highlighted on the website Onextrapixel.com with 34 other very talented photographers.

It has a good into section that I recommend going over ‘Personal Traits of Becoming a Successful Photographer’ such as,

Preparing Yourself
Formal Photography Education or Qualifacation
Working Up Your Rank
Choosing the Perfect Master
Passion Vs. Income
Vision Talents
Stand Firm on Your Beliefs

Today, my story on Yemen’s many escalating problems publishes in the World Policy Journal. It’s an intimate look into the barrage of issues that plague the nation that perhaps the biggest imports last year were refugee’s and extremists.
Yemen may not yet be front-page news, but it’s a being watched intensely these days in capitals worldwide. [...]

This Sunday’s New York Times will feature a photo of my dad that I shot when we were together in Jordan. We had such a good trip and it makes it that much better to have it shown in the NY Times travel section.
Click here to see the NY Times ‘Why We Travel’ slide show.

I was asked again to contribute to World Policy Journal’s summer issue. In it will be my reportage from Yemen. Also, if you haven’t seen my cleaned-up blog posts head over to the WPJ blog to check them out!
Micah Albert: Quenching Yemen’s Thirst
Micah Albert: Reporter’s Notebook — The First Taste of Yemen

Yemen work published in Washington Times

Writing is something I truly enjoy, but between you and me, I really don’t like straight news writing. As a journalist, it’s harder than you think to pull yourself completely out of the writing and make the reader believe that you were nothing more than a fly on the wall – a [...]

Some of my coverage of Yemen is in today’s BBC Middle East News. Click here to see it.