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Two War Photographers On Their Injuries, Ethics

Combat photographer Joao Silva is at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he’s recovering after losing his legs in an explosion in October. Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was shot four times while covering conflicts. Silva

via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135513724/two-war-photographers-on-their-injuries-ethics

an interview taped Tuesday with combat photographers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, both of whom have been seriously injured in the field.

Marinovich: “Just seeing someone — especially a mother over a young child or a young fighter or a young civilian who’s being killed — and that look they give you as you come to photograph them, while you’re kind of apologizing about photographing,” he says. “And people want you photographing to show what’s happened, but that look of hatred — that sometimes you get from a mother — is just so disturbing.”

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