Category: War

  • Behind the Scenes: Rewriting the Rules – Lens Blog

    Behind the Scenes: Rewriting the Rules – Lens Blog

    Behind the Scenes: Rewriting the Rules A military command in Afghanistan issues, then revises, media rules. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/behind-21/ Donald R. Winslow, the editor of News Photographer magazine and of the National Press Photographers Association Web site, said, “None of us could recall any time in history that photographers had been banned from taking…

  • Ground Rules On "Killed In Action" Photos Revised Again – NPPA

    Link: Ground Rules On “Killed In Action” Photos Revised Again – NPPA: “14. Media will not be prohibited from viewing or filming casualties; however, casualty photographs showing recognizable face, nametag or other identifying feature or item will not be published. In respect to our family members, names, video, identifiable written/oral descriptions or identifiable photographs of…

  • PDN: New Rule Bans Some Afghanistan Casualty Photos

    Link: PDN: New Rule Bans Some Afghanistan Casualty Photos

  • The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire – washingtonpost.com

    The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire – washingtonpost.com

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    The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100303048.html?wprss=rss_world In recent months, the battle of Wanat has come to symbolize the U.S. military’s missteps in Afghanistan. It has provoked Brostrom’s father to question why Jonathan died and whether senior Army officers — including a former colleague and close friend — made careless mistakes that…

  • High Definition War Footage Taken with Canon 5D Mark II – Obama's War – Gizmodo

    Via: High Definition War Footage Taken with Canon 5D Mark II – Obama’s War – Gizmodo: I’m amazed by the cinematic qualities of this high definition footage from Frontline’s documentary Obama’s War. The color, the depth, the texture, it all screams film to me. Except it’s just a Canon 5D Mark II rigged by Danfung…

  • PDNPulse: Just One Photographer Still Covering Returning Military Dead

    Link: PDNPulse: Just One Photographer Still Covering Returning Military Dead: The Examiner reports that the AP usually sends the same photographer to every transfer, but fails to mention his name. So we will: Steve Ruark. AP spokesperson Paul Colford tells us Ruark sometimes makes two trips in a single day to Dover to photograph these…

  • From the Archive: Not New, Never Easy – Lens Blog

    Link: From the Archive: Not New, Never Easy – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: In two years of global warfare, America had yet to see almost any pictures of dead Americans. Then, in September 1943, an issue of Life magazine arrived in people’s homes and at their corner newsstands. It forced them to confront a stark,…

  • Readers’ Voices: Public and Private Trauma

    Link: Readers’ Voices: Public and Private Trauma – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: No subject we’ve tackled in the first four months of the Lens blog has touched quite so raw a nerve as our Sept. 4 post (”Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not?“) about a decision by The Associated Press to distribute a photograph…

  • Military's Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book

    Link: Military’s Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book – washingtonpost.com: The Reuters photographer and driver were carrying cameras and walking with a group of Iraqi men, some of whom appeared to be armed, when a U.S. helicopter crew mistook them for insurgents, according to an account by David Finkel in the…

  • Too Close for Comfort? : CJR

    Link: Too Close for Comfort? : CJR: The dramatic change in Ricks’s writing about the military in Iraq reflects a broader shift that has taken place in the coverage of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The doctrine of counterinsurgency has received almost uniformly positive press coverage, at times making it appear to be…

  • Journal entries of AP photographer embedded with US Marines in Afghanistan

    Link: Journal entries of AP photographer embedded with US Marines in Afghanistan – The Digital Journalist: To publish or not is the question. The image is not the most technically sound, but his face is visible as are his wounds. Many factors come into play. There’s the form we signed agreeing to how and what…

  • John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog

    Link: John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Sultan Munadi is dead, and a British paratrooper whose name we may never know. There may also have been Afghan casualties, perhaps Taliban, perhaps not; that we also don’t know yet, for sure. But from where I am writing this, on a sunny…

  • POV: To Publish or Not?

    ::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: To Publish or Not?: Every day we see photographs of Iraqi corpses, Palestinians horribly maimed, Afghan women with horrific burns, Congolese civilians beheaded, and many others. They are also loved ones and have families too, yet we show them in our publications without even thinking twice. Yes, sometimes, a…

  • Death Of A Marine: AP Releases Graphic Photos From Afghanistan Ambush

    Death Of A Marine: AP Releases Graphic Photos From Afghanistan Ambush: AP said in a statement released in conjunction with the photographs today that the meeting with Bernard’s parents included them seeing the photographs in advance of any release. “AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception. We feel it is our…

  • Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not?

    Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not? – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: It is a scene from which many of us would naturally recoil, or at least avert our eyes: a grievously injured young man, fallen on a rough patch of earth; his open-mouthed and unseeing stare registering — who can know what? — horror…

  • Robert Gates protests AP decision as 'appalling'

    Robert Gates protests AP decision as ‘appalling’ – Mike Allen – POLITICO.com: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”

  • War is only half the story

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    THE AFTERMATH PROJECT War is only half the story, | duckrabbit – we produce beautifully crafted multimedia: Many of the photographers I admire work the aftermath.  There’s little glory to be found in it, but as the now struggles to reconcile with the past, how we record the aftermath will shape the future, whether blood…

  • Ask a Pro: How to Shoot (and Not Get Shot) In a War Zone

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    Ask a Pro: How to Shoot (and Not Get Shot) In a War Zone – War zone photography – Gizmodo: Ever wonder how war photographers survive out there? We’ve enlisted Teru Kuwayama—a photographer who has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hotspots for Time, Newsweek and Outside—to explain the perils of working in a…

  • Journalists' recent work examined before embeds

    Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds | Stars and Stripes: As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in…

  • At War: Notes From the Front Lines

    At War: Notes From the Front Lines – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Today, we introduce you to a new blog about America at war. This generation’s conflict, which began on 9/11, is nearly eight years old. Yet there are no signs that it will end anytime soon, with the Obama administration sending thousands more…