Greetings to everybody,
On pfctdayelise's suggestion who's never afraid of rejoicing for something, I'd like to request a round of applause for Mikhail Evstafiev.
Mikhail Evstafiev is a Russian artist, painter, writer and photographer. He has covered the wars in Bosnia and Chechnya (hint: these are dangerous places and recent periods before Wikipedia was born, two factors which usually make it difficult to gather images), and various political and cultural events.
A while ago, Evstafiev was contacted to enquire whether he would agree to licence some of his photographs under Free licences. He did, and since then he has created an account and uploaded quite a few photographs himself. His work can be seen at : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mikhail_Evstafiev and his account is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evstafiev
What should we do from there ? my suggestions: 1) On the moral aspect: Rejoice: there are really interesting people on Commons. 2) On the social aspect: Do our outmost so that people like Evstafiev feel at home on Commons and really become part of the family (Seek them on the Internet, ask them to join, explain how it is around here and how contributing to Commons is a symbiosis, provide technical support) 3) On the technical aspect: Watch this sort of images over and over and over again and learn how to compose photos that strong ourselves.
Cheers ! -- Rama