Category: War

Former Yugoslavia

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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

in the early 1990s, Yugoslavia explodes, like a return to the origins, April 1992, Sarajevo is under attack from Karadzic’s murderers, Mladic is under the orders of Milosevic in Belgrade. War had already begun in what is now called “former Yugoslavia”. But the siege of Sarajevo, the suffocation of Bosnia-Herzegovina would give this conflict a new dimension. The tragedy would grow deeper.
The photographers were there without fail, courageous witnesses to the unbearable suffering of the local population. As I have said before, photography is dangerous, and as such, it is essential.

20 Years Later: The Bosnian Conflict in Photographs


Link: LightBox

The photographs in the gallery above are from the book Bosnia 1992 – 1995, available July 2012. The book will be self-published by the photographers who covered the Bosnian conflict—which began 20 years ago today—and printed in Bosnia. The captions below these photographs are the personal reflections of the photographers on their experiences in the region.

Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War


Link: Photo Booth:

On Wednesday, Shapiro will moderate “Generation Iraq: Journalists Confront America’s War,” a conversation among five reporters at Columbia University. Among them will be the photographers Ashley Gilbertson, who worked in Iraq from 2002 until 2008, and Peter van Agtmael, who has been documenting America’s war and its consequences since 2006. Here’s a selection of van Agtmael and Gilbertson’s photographs from war, and its chilling reverberations back home.

Wim Wenders: Eulogy for James Nachtwey at the occasion of the Dresden Prize


Link: burn magazine

James Nachtwey’s images give us an accurate idea of how he “goes about it”, in the true sense of the word: where others “just want to get out of here”, that’s where he goes. He travels, in principle, in the direction of places that other people are only desperately leaving from, or have already left in a hurry, or can’t leave anymore.

It is with that first movement that he’s already opposing war: With himself. With his safety, his life, his affection, his conviction. All of the above are captured in his images…