Category: War
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Don McCullin | Photography review | The Guardian
Don McCullin | Photography review This career retrospective shows that time and familiarity have not dulled the impact of photojournalist Don McCullin’s astonishing combat photography, writes Andrew Pulver via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/don-mccullin-review It feels like a state honour: the photojournalist Don McCullin, one-time employee of the Observer and the Sunday Times, is being dignified with…
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Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin | Photography review The great war photographer Don McCullin talks to Sean O’Hagan ahead of the major retrospective of his work in Manchester via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/07/don-mccullin-shaped-war-review “The day I came across that boy was a killer day for me. There were 800 dying children in that schoolhouse.…
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Don McCullin: War photographer
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon McCullins autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour‘ in Dublin and couldn’t put it down. It’s an unflinching account of his life. I really had no idea about the man at all (indeed might be due a re-read). Truly gripping a life like his defies fiction you really couldn’t make up the…
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Conflict Photography – Before you go to war…
New York photographer James Pomerantz launches a new site dedicated to archiving conflict photography Link: Conflict Photography – Before you go to war…
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Stanley Greene’s Black Passport | dvafoto
Have a look at the “trailer” for Stanley Greene’s new book Black Passport, a deeply personal journal of life and a career in conflict. Or perhaps it is, as compiled by Teun van der Heijden, a biography. Link: Stanley Greene’s Black Passport | dvafoto
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Visions of the Decade: One Night in Tal Afar, 2005 | PDN Photo of the Day
Chris Hondros: When I give talks or lectures people often ask me my personal feelings about war, usually I dodge the question. Sometimes I say that I don’t expect my pictures to stop wars, but rather I hope they help citizens to understand what going to war means. On that level at least I think…
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Chris Hedges: The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See
The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. In an instant, industrial warfa via Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_pictures_of_war_you_arent_supposed_to_see_20100104/ In Peter van Agtmael’s “2nd Tour Hope I don’t Die” and Lori…
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2003 U.S. raid in Iraqi town serves as a cautionary tale – washingtonpost.com
2003 U.S. raid in Iraqi town serves as a cautionary tale Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122303469.html?wprss=rss_world The soldiers shouted in English. Most of the residents stared back in frightened incomprehension. Like others, Jabbouri raised a white handkerchief, in a universal sign of surrender. With hundreds of others, he was blindfolded, bound with plastic cuffs and forced to lie…
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dispatches / War Stories. From Fenton to Fincher
War Stories. From Fenton to Fincher. from Hulton Archive on Vimeo. via: dispatches / War Stories. From Fenton to Fincher
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Sides of the Wire: America in Afghanistan – The Digital Journalist
by David Bathgate It was in early March 2002 when I first arrived in Kabul – just weeks before springtime and Nawroz, the Persian New Year. The Kabul Valley looked cold and barren-dry as the Ariana flight descended through the clouds. Snow-covered peaks of the Hindu Kush lay on the horizon, aloof from all that…
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The Long Haul – The Digital Journalist
by Lucian Read I’ve been to Afghanistan eight times in the last 18 months. My apartment is slowly taking on the look of a caravanserai. I have more friends in Kabul than Manhattan. My mind is full of snippets of Dari, counterinsurgency strategy and half-remembered warlords, major and minor. My son – not yet quite…
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On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens
On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall Moises Saman has returned to Afghanistan time and again with the hope of documenting the promise of peace and prosperity, which now seem ever more elusive. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/assignment-17/ KABUL — I was one of the hundreds of young photojournalists who came to this distant country in 2001…
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100Eyes: Beware the Consequences of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
First I must warn you that this exhibition includes some “graphic images”. These are images that were not composed to conceal the results of violence. I urge you not to recoil and ask you to study these images. Try to conjure them up whenever you see a newspaper headline reporting deaths or injuries. Even if…
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U.N. relocating about 600 staff following Afghan attack – washingtonpost.com
United Nations mission in Afghanistan relocating workers after Kabul attack Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110501015.html?wprss=rss_world The U.N. decision was another sign of the Taliban’s ability to use violence against civilians to curtail humanitarian and development work in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Showcase: Peter van Agtmael — ‘2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die’ – Lens Blog
In the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where images have largely been sanitized, Peter van Agtmael’s photographs offer an up-close look at wars that, to most, seem emotionally blurred and distant. His recently released book, “2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die,” is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: the wars’ effects on him, on the…
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Kabul, Echoes of Saigon – At War
in some ways Kabul was Saigon. Westerners could drink wine and beer and eat Frenchified Afghan food while a rural insurgency gathered strength, moving from village to village, from areas where the Americans had added troops to areas where there were European troops who fought less aggressively or places where there were no troops at…
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U.S. official resigns over Afghan war – washingtonpost.com
U.S. official resigns over Afghan war Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html?wprss=rss_world “There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed,” he said of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. “I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys.” But many Afghans, he wrote in his resignation letter, are fighting the United States largely…
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100Eyes || Beware the Cost of War
Link: 100Eyes || Beware the Cost of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine The photographers in this exhibition are some of the best in the world. Uriel Sinai and Amit Shabi have been awarded in the World Press photography competition, Jafar Ishtyeh and Mahmud Hams have won the Prix Bayeux war photography prize and all…
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U.S. Military Backing Away From Ban On Photos Of Dead?
Link: U.S. Military Backing Away From Ban On Photos Of Dead?: That’s right, apparently it’s not over with yet – there may be more revisions coming, according to a Pentagon spokesperson late today.