Rémi Ochlik, the young photographer who died Wednesday morning in Syria, was the second photographer in a close group of friends to die covering conflicts in the Middle East in just over a year.
Oct. 23, 2011. French photojournalist Remi Ochlik in Misrata, Libya. Ochlik was killed Feb. 22, 2012, by Syrian shelling of the opposition stronghold Homs.
“I cannot remember any story where the security situation was potentially this bad, except maybe Chechnya,” Marie Colvin told me over a dinner of traditional Lebanese fare on her last night in Beirut a week before she was killed in Homs.
Link: British Journal of Photography
Speaking to Michel Puech of La Lettre de la Photographie, Guillaume Clavières, senior photo editor at Paris Match, said, late last year that Ochlik was one of the most talented young photographers of his generation. “Motivated, enthusiastic, curious and brilliant. He is capable of going from one difficult news topic to another less dramatic subject with the same photographic quality.”
Reporter Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London was killed in the same attack
Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Mr. Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
John L. Hillelson has died. A great figure of 20th century photojournalism has left us. The “John Hillelson Agency” represented Magnum in London, but also Sygma and Viva. He collaborated with and sold the work of photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Cole etc. I would need a book to name them all.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
The Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto who has died at the age of ninety was one of the leading figures in the renaissance of photography in Japan in the years immediately after the Second World War
MacNaughtan was best known for photographing Canadian celebrities and musicians
