Category: War
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Joao Silva: 'Acting Despite Fear.' An Interview by Michael Kamber – NYTimes.com
The following interview was conducted in Baghdad on Dec. 9, 2009, by Michael Kamber, a seasoned conflict photographer himself (“Hard Lessons From Somalia,” “A Long and Dangerous Road,” “Minders, Fixers, Troubles”). He is working on a book about photojournalism and war photography. This condensed version of their conversation begins with Mr. Silva describing his background.…
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FRAGO 242 and How the US Military Duped Photog. John Moore « Prison Photography
FRAGO 242 and How the US Military Duped Photog. John Moore FOR A HANDLE ON THE US MILITARY’S COMPLICITY IN WIDESPREAD TORTURE IN SAMARRA, IRAQ, WATCH THIS. FRAGO 242 FRAGO 242 is the US military’s abbreviation of a “fragmentary order̶… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/frago-242-and-how-the-us-military-duped-photog-john-moore/ When US military became aware of Iraqi torture of other Iraqis,…
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When We Decide to Know — BagNews
When We Decide to Know – Reading The Pictures Usually I avoid rubbing your face in it, but not today. This image, which has been sitting on my desktop for a few months, is offered out of anger, grief, and extreme frustration with press, public, and the Obama administration–and most of all with the via…
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Times Photographer Joao Silva's Injuries in Afghanistan Have a Widespread Impact – NYTimes.com
Widespread Impact From an Afghan Mine Joao Silva is known for his bravery and his caution in covering battle zones. Friends and colleagues were shocked by news he had been severely injured in Afghanistan. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/widespread-impact-from-an-afghan-mine/ Friends, colleagues and competitors of the photojournalist Joao Silva — there are many people in the first…
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In American Custody: John Moore's 'Detained' – NYTimes.com
In American Custody John Moore has dedicated himself to covering America’s wartime prisons and detention centers. James Estrin and David Furst of The Times interviewed him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/in-american-custod/ John Moore of Getty Images has visited American-run detention centers in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib and Camp Cropper; prisons for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan run…
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Joao Silva, Times Photographer, Wounded by Afghan Mine – NYTimes.com
Times Photographer Wounded by an Afghan Mine Joao Silva, a longtime contract photographer for The New York Times, was severely wounded when he stepped on a mine while on patrol with American soldiers. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/asia/24silva.html The photographer, Joao Silva, 44, suffered leg wounds from the bomb, which detonated as he was moving through an area…
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Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details
Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102201682.html?wprss=rss_world A massive cache of secret U.S. field reports from the Iraq war provides grim new details about the toll of that conflict, indicating that more than 100,000 Iraqis were killed during a six-year stretch and that American forces often failed to intervene as the U.S.-backed…
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The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator! – Boing Boing
The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator! Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by how it could get through such gruesome descriptions — fingers chopped off, chemicals splashed on prisoners — wit… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/22/torture.html Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by…
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Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore WikiLeaks’ Sheen? | Threat Level | Wired.com
Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore WikiLeaks’ Sheen? After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. Mea via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/wikileaks-iraq/ After a…
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Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video
Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100707341.html?wprss=rss_world The head of Pakistan’s military has ordered an investigation into a video, circulating on the Internet, that depicts the country’s soldiers executing blindfolded men in civilian dress.
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A Family Album: American Soldiers at War – NYTimes.com
A Family Album: American Soldiers at War Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” is more of a family album for a platoon in Afghanistan than a traditional photojournalism book. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/infidel/ Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” (Chris Boot Ltd., 2010) is more of a family album than a traditional photojournalism book. There are of course powerful images of…
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Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt | Threat Level
Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt A domino chain of resignations at the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks followed a unilateral decision by autocratic founder Julian Assange to schedule an October release of 392,000 classified U.S. documents from the war in Iraq, according to former WikiLeak via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt/ Key members of WikiLeaks were angered…
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Report From the Taliban Heartland – NYTimes.com
Report From the Taliban Heartland I’ve been working here for nine years and it’s become worse and worse. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/report-from-the-taliban-heartland/ New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks gives a first-hand account of a firefight in Afghanistan.
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Martin Adler: The War Reporter – Telegraph
Martin Adler: The War Reporter A documentary about the photojournalist and filmmaker Martin Adler, who was murdered in Somalia in 2006. via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8028060/Martin-Adler-The-War-Reporter.html The 52 minute documentary film by director Thomas Nordanstad is almost exclusively based on raw footage, rushes and DV tapes from the reporter’s camera, building up narrative stories with elements that…
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Military thwarted president seeking choice in Afghanistan
Military thwarted president seeking choice in Afghanistan Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/26/AR2010092603766.html?wprss=rss_world President Obama was on edge. For two exhausting months, he had been asking military advisers to give him a range of options for the war in Afghanistan. Instead, he felt that they were steering him toward one outcome and thwarting his search for an exit plan.…
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Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks | Threat Level
Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever oc via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/iraq-war-docs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 The documents…
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Afghanistan: Whistleblower Claims Many US Interpreters Can't Speak Afghan Languages – ABC News
Exclusive: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can’t Speak Afghan Languages More than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams but were sent onto the battlefield anyway, according to a former employee of the company that holds contracts worth up to $1.4 bi via ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/afghanistan-whistleblower-claims-us-interpreters-speak-afghan-languages/story?id=11578169 “There…
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Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar in Afghanistan – Lens
Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar In war, emotions run high. Adam Ferguson has found that can help as well as hinder, Eirini Vourloumis reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/watching-a-teenage-girl-die-by-mortar/ Adam Ferguson believes that facing difficult moments honestly — without emotionally separating himself from the situation at hand —yields more engaging photographs. Easy to say?…
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Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework
By Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times Cameras. Check. Passport. Check. Bullet proof vest. Check. And so it begins. My ninth trip into Afghanistan, a captivating country where I’ve now spent about two years of my life. Link: Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles…