J.B. Russell

CAPTION: Members of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and other supporters prepare for confrontation with U.S. forces in the hotbed Shiite slum of Sadr City.
Baghdad, Iraq.
Photo © J.B. Russell
Observing humanity. If one looks close enough, we can't help but wonder sometimes if we are indeed on a road to nowhere. Spending as much time as I do documenting current events and the human condition, I must admit that my faith in humanity is all too often plunged into the obscurity of doubt. Never the less, along that road I have also witnessed moments that shine; sublime instances where human dignity, resilience and generosity give cause to resist succumbing to cynicism and pessimism. A road to somewhere? At some point, I realized that if we are on a road to somewhere it implies that there is a destination, a terminus to the voyage. A road to nowhere on the other hand, is a perambulation without end, a ceaseless evolution and therefore it is the journey itself that is fundamental, not the destination.
Road to Nowhere Productions is about that journey, it is about being in the moment, about seizing those moments and about collecting them to tell the stories of the human odyssey.
Reportage
- Kosovo Crisis
- Ethiopia - Drought and Famine
- El Ejido - Immigration Hothouse
- Fortress Europe
- Angola - Truce & Consequences
- Heroin in Pakistan
- Post 9/11 Pakistan
- Burkina Faso: Collectives and Cotton
- Burkina Faso: Cotton Subsidies
- Tsunami in Sri Lanka
- Iraq 2001-2006
- China Coal Boom
- Hebron's Jewish Community
- Lebanon: Cluster Munitions
- DR Congo