Category: War
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Ben Lowy Views Libya through iPhone (12 Photos)
Above: Libyan rebels celebrate their revolution in a square outside the de facto headquarters for th
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photo-eye Book Reviews: War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3
War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3, Photographs by Louie Palu, Asim Rafiqui, Rodrigo Abd, Andrea Bru
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Goran Tomasevic: Tales From Libya's Frontline
Tales from the frontline Goran Tomasevic has been covering conflict for nearly 20 years, here he talks about his latest work in Libya. via BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-12998593 Photojournalists are under more pressure than ever to get the shots and to transmit them as quickly as possible, here Goran provides some of the back story behind…
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The Trophy Shot
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/04/01/the-trophy-shot/#1 It required pictures, first published by Der Spiegel and then Rolling Stone, to really focus the world’s attention on the case. The photo of one smiling soldier holding the head of a recently killed Afghan up for the camera is so…
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Thirty Days on the Ground in Libya
Goran Tomasevic of Reuters arrived in Libya on Feb. 23, having covered the upheaval in Egypt. (“Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo,” Feb. 4.) These images, presented in chronological order, convey some sense of what a tumultuous month it has been. Kerri MacDonald interviewed Mr. Tomasevic by e-mail last week. Link: Thirty Days…
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Dispatch from Libya: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/03/24/dispatch-from-libya-photographs-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1 Despite a long history of photographing conflict across the world, Kozyrev said the danger working in eastern Libya surpassed anything he’s seen. “It’s the most intense fighting I’ve seen,” he said. “Bombs, helicopters shooting at us, rockets – it was heavy.…
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Patrick Baz Is in His Element in Libya
Believe me, when I looked at the pictures on the screen, my hands were shaking. My heart was beating. I realized that this is a picture you take once in a blue moon. It’s being there at the right time, at the right moment, at the right place, with the right lens. If you want…
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Libya Releases 4 New York Times Journalists – NYTimes.com
Freed Times Journalists Give Account of Captivity The four journalists, freed by the Libyan government on Monday, provided harrowing details about their capture. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22times.html?_r=2&hp The Libyan government freed four New York Times journalists on Monday, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city…
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In the Thick of Libya's Brutal Fighting: Tyler Hicks Describes One of the Toughest Battles He's Ever Photographed – NYTimes.com
In the Thick of Libya’s Brutal Fighting Tyler Hicks has covered Kosovo, Chechnya, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. He said the battling Wednesday in Libya ranked among the worst he has seen. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/in-the-thick-of-libyas-brutal-fighting/ When Tyler Hicks says that he has just witnessed what may have been the “thickest fighting in a…
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At a Deadly, Shifting Front in Libya: Lynsey Addario Describes the Challenges Faced by Photographers – NYTimes.com
At a Deadly, Shifting Front in Libya Lynsey Addario, on assignment in Libya, describes the challenges photographers face, including drivers who won’t go anywhere near the front. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/at-a-deadly-shifting-front-in-libya/ It was pretty scary. The journalist’s instinct is to want to go as far forward as possible. But our drivers refused. Two drivers today…
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Vietnam-era journalists see new dangers today
During the Vietnam War, there were no “embeds,” journalists implanted with well-armed troops, like those who cover wars today from Iraq to Afghanistan. But neither were there snipers, police or troops targeting journalists — who are being killed today at a far greater rate Link: wn_020711a.html
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Deeper Into Fathomless Afghanistan: Michael Kamber's War Journal – NYTimes.com
Deeper Into Fathomless Afghanistan On his latest tour of Afghanistan, the photojournalist Michael Kamber finds that the war is becoming more intricate and more complicated. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/deeper-into-fathomless-afghanistan/ In early December, Alissa J. Rubin, The Times’s bureau chief in Kabul, takes me along on a visit to meet with the public affairs team at…
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Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook: Teru Kuwayama and the Basetrack Project – NYTimes.com
Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook Teru Kuwayama, one of the photographers of Basetrack, tells Michael Kamber why the future of journalism may be on Facebook. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/covering-marines-at-war-through-facebook/ Basetrack is a Web-based reporting initiative with the photographers Teru Kuwayama, Balazs Gardi and Tivadar Domaniczky. Its “forward crew” is embedded with the First Battalion,…
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Why AP is publishing photos of US war dead
The distribution and publication of photos of dead servicemen and women can be controversial because some people feel it disrespectful. Others feel such images reflect the realities of combat. Link: Why AP is publishing photos of US war dead
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'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…
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The bug and the hero | Greg Marinovich
The first thing I noticed on going to see Joao at the Walter Reed (after all the uniforms, of course) is that there are dispensers with antiseptic hand gel everywhere. And god forbid you try to enter a patient’s room without cleaning your hands. The obsessive hygiene is like a sickness itself, to the ignorant…
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The Diary of a Killer in Chechnya – NYTimes.com
The Diary of a Killer in Chechnya One Russian soldier’s account offers a departure point for confronting the ways that war can unravel its participants. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/the-diary-of-a-killer-in-chechnya/ Every so often a lengthy newspaper or magazine article arrives that all but demands a fuller and even longer treatment. Such was the case in…
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Times Photographer Joao Silva: Courage, Recognized, in Combat – NYTimes.com
Courage, Recognized: The Infantry and Joao Silva Shots of battle from the war in Iraq in 2006, taken by the photographer Joao Silva, helped lead to a Bronze Star for a brave Marine sergeant who saved a fallen Marine’s life. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/courage-recognized-joao-silva-in-combat/ During a few frantic minutes late in 2006, Joao Silva,…
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Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman : CJR
Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/q_a_war_photographer_moises_saman.php?page=all “If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”