'It's the Photographer': Joao Silva's Fateful Assignment in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com

This slide show is taken from the memory card that was in Joao Silva’s camera on Oct. 23 when he stepped on an anti-personnel mine at Checkpoint 16, near the village of Deh-e-Kuchay, Afghanistan. Mr. Silva, a contract photographer for The New York Times, and Carlotta Gall, a Times correspondent, were on patrol with a squad of 10 or 15 American soldiers and a unit of Afghan soldiers and police officers.

Link: ‘It’s the Photographer’: Joao Silva’s Fateful Assignment in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com