Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left – The New Yorker

Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left

While he knew the peril, the compulsion to document what people were experiencing would allow him no other course of action.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/stanley-greene-a-war-photographer-who-stayed-when-others-left

“Stanley was the only non-Middle Eastern photographer who managed to make an image of the events of that day in Fallujah,” another friend, the American photographer Samantha Appleton, said. “People often ask war photographers if they are scared doing their work. It is not fear so much as how one responds to the stress of fear. Stanley was scared that day, and said so whenever he told the story. He nearly lost his life when he tried to get closer to the bridge, and pulled out of the situation just in time. Before he did so, however, he created images that were indisputable proof that the war was only just beginning.”