Category: War
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How Photographers Have Captured War and Unrest in Lebanon
How Photographers Have Captured War and Unrest in Lebanon Lebanon Then and Now at the Middle East Institute creates a dialogue between two generations of Lebanese photographers. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/584776/lebanon-then-and-now-photography-exhibition/ Lebanon Then and Now at the Middle East Institute creates a dialogue between two generations of Lebanese photographers.
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How losing both legs and an arm covering the war in Afghanistan gave photographer Giles Duley a reason to live | South China Morning Post
He lost both legs and an arm to a bomb but still fights for others Photographer and triple amputee Giles Duley – who lost his legs and an arm to an IED on assignment in Afghanistan – explains why losing his limbs has made him even more passionate about highlighting human suffering. via South China…
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Abood Hamam: ‘A picture can kill you or save your life’ – BBC News
‘A picture can kill you or save your life’ For years Abood Hamam sent war photos out of Syria anonymously. Now he’s using his name, and urging exiles to return. via BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53486838?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cxqvep8kqext/long-reads&link_location=live-reporting-story For years Abood Hamam chronicled the war in Syria for news outlets all over the world without ever revealing his name…
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Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine
Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/guillaume-chauvin-ukraine-photography-300320?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region.
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I Went to Iraq to Take Photographs. I Stayed On as a Medic. – The New York Times
I Went to Iraq to Take Photographs. I Stayed On as a Medic. My plan was to photograph women displaced by ISIS. But in Mosul, I quickly found myself trying to save lives. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/magazine/iraq-mosul-medic.html When I first arrived in Iraq a week earlier, I had no intention of going to Mosul. In addition to…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – the 10th annual Women’s show at Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, plus a review of Dr. Lauren Walsh’s exceptional book, Conversation… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-7-february-2020/ For those of us who work in journalism the myth of the cavalier photojournalist…
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What’s the Point of Conflict Photography? – Witness
What’s the Point of Conflict Photography? “I don’t see why I should care about that person.” via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/whats-the-point-of-conflict-photography-ee565909f778 At the time, I was teaching a course that concentrated on conflict photography and ethics. At one point during the semester, we were studying the coverage of a famine in Sudan in the early 1990s. My…
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What is life really like for a conflict photographer?
What is life really like for a conflict photographer? Cengiz Yar has seen a few things in his time. But it was away from the frontlines that he came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/playlist-archive/cengiz-yar-the-grass-conflict-photography-iraq/ Photographer Cengiz Yar has seen things – from the rebels’…
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“Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images | The New Yorker
“Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images Ben Brody’s book has no narrative, because, from the perspective of an American infantryman in Baghdad, the war had none. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/relentless-absurdity-an-army-photographers-censored-images In his new book, “Attention Servicemember,” Ben Brody recounts being sent to a Rotary Club luncheon near Fort Stewart, Georgia, to present a…
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The E&P Pub: After Flap Over AP Photo — Military Bans Images of Casualties in War
Link: The new rule, contained in a Sept. 19 directive from the Combined Joint Task Force in Bagram, Afghanistan, simply states: “Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action.” Period.
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It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2) – Opinionator
It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2) The conclusion of a closer look at a child’s toy among bombed-out ruins, and at what it’s like photographing a war. via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-2/ BEN CURTIS: So there should be 19 pictures, numbered 101 to 119. Basically, I spent the whole day out and then came…
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Combat Photography, Wounded Warriors & The Long Wait for Help – A Picture's Worth
Link: We caught up with PhotoShelter member Stacy Pearsall last week at the 2010 D.C. Shoot Off. Stacy is a retired Air Force Staff Sergeant and two-time winner of the Military Photographer of the Year award. She did three tours of duty in Iraq.
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Associated Press Photographer David Guttenfelder goes to war with… an iPhone – 1854
Link: “These photographs, shot with an iPhone I carried in my flak jacket pocket, are not about the fight for Marjah,” Guttenfelder says. “Instead, they are an attempt, during my downtime, to show something of the daily lives of Marines and Afghan soldiers as they moved through the city and set down their packs each…
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A Photo Student › Shooting Gallery – The limitations of photojournalism and the ethics of artistic representation
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2010/06/07/shooting-gallery-the-limitations-of-photojournalism-and-the-ethics-of-artistic-representation/ The winning press photos by Hetherington and Guttenfelder on the one hand and McQueen’s art work on the other can be seen as two poles defining the spectrum of possible representations of war with a camera – one employs the rhetoric of reportage, the other uses…
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Stellazine: A Photographer Reviews "Restrepo"
Link: I met Linda Covello when I worked at Newsweek and she was shooting for cover stories about American kids. She is first and foremost a portrait photographer with a great connection to people and their environment. Linda is also a serious film buff, and after talking to her about Restrepo, the award-winning film from…
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Picturing War's Wounded and Dead – NYTimes.com
Picturing War’s Wounded and Dead There is no telling how people will react to realistic images and written reports that show war for what it is. But such images do serve a purpose. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/picturing-wars-wounded-and-dead/ “For centuries pictures of the dead and wounded have been part and parcel of war communications. Often…
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The Transformation Of Pathology Into Pathos Or The Military Does What It Does And It Does It We « The Spinning Head
Link: What confuses me is the thought behind the video and comments: Michael Kamber is surprised that a system meticulously designed to censor the likes of him, is…..censoring him. Isn’t this precisely what this system is designed to do?
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New York Times photographer severely wounded in Afghanistan – British Journal of Photography
Link: Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, has been severely wounded in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, the newspaper has announced
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Bonding With Subjects in Harm's Way – NYTimes.com
Bonding With Subjects in Harm’s Way The divide between journalist and subject can often blur in the combat theater, especially when the subject is under fire. Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters explains. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/bonding-with-subjects-in-harms-way/ But that didn’t make it any easier to photograph him on Monday after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an Afghan…