Category: War
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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…
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Do Damon Winter’s iPhone pictures make a mockery of New York Times policy on digital manipulation? | duckrabbit
Link: Once again we are talking about how ‘beautiful’ the photos are, or what a great device the iPhone is, but not about the war in Afghanistan (although many people do comment that the photos bring them close to the lives of the soldiers). Would we really be talking about these pictures if they hadn’t…
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Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible: Michael Kamber Returns – NYTimes.com
Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible How does it feel to be a photojournalist preparing for an assignment that’s left a friend of yours badly injured? Michael Kamber shares his thoughts. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/eyes-open-back-into-the-afghan-crucible/ The night before I leave Paris, Alissa J. Rubin, the Times’s bureau chief in Kabul, e-mails me to say…
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Unhurt by Two Mines, but Not Untouched: Damon Winter's Close Call in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com
Unhurt by Two Mines, but Not Untouched In the middle of photographing for the “Year at War” series, Damon Winter was confronted by choices that could have made the difference between life or death. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/unhurt-by-two-mines-but-not-untouched/ It was probably the toughest situation I’ve ever been in as a photographer. When the first mine…
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The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square – ProPublica
The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square How saturation media coverage of the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square fueled the perception that the war had been won and diverted attention from what in reality was just the start of a long and costly conflict. via…
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The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto
Link: I was especially interested in this discussion because an old colleague of Scott and mine, Daniel Etter, recently completed an embed himself with a US Medevac unit and worked on his story Medevac, which we are also featuring in this post. I thought to ask him what his view was on the current hubbub,…
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Conflict Zone: A groundbreaking look at war
Link: CONFLICT ZONE is a collection of images from the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, captured by some of the world’s leading combat photographers and journalists.
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12 Must See Stories about Covering Conflict – MultimediaShooter
Link: 12 thoughtful, harsh and heartfelt stories around the subject of war. Stories whose content and multimedia delivery should not be missed.
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Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Two Other NY Times Journalists Missing In Libya
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/ The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter…
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Getty's John Moore On Covering "Epic" Battles In Libya, Arab World
Link: Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya – might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out…
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Atrocity exhibition | Xeni Jardin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Atrocity exhibition | Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin: The internet is generating new sources of shockingly graphic images of conflict, which the media have to figure out how to use via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/04/digital-media-xeni-jardin The internet is generating new sources of shockingly graphic images of conflict, which the media have to figure out how to use
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Embedistan: Unembedded vs. Embedded
Embedistan: Unembedded vs. Embedded Aside from the long list of tactical information we can’t report or photograph, the soldiers and commanding officers censor themselves. They are afraid of the repercussions of saying the wrong thing, and are on the lookout for journalists with an agenda. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/embedistan-unembedded-vs-embedded/ I have spent six months…
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Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya Photograph by Matt Stuart.Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer, was killed today while covering the conflict in Misrata, Libya. “Tim died about two hours ago,” said Peter N. Bouckaert, of Human Rights Wat via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/tim-hetherington-41-killed-in-libya.html As recently as yesterday, Hetherington tweeted about “indiscriminate shelling”…
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Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya
Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before bei
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Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post
Link: These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
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Philip Jones Griffiths Maelstrom
Link: The exhibition Maelstrom of photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths at Howard Greenberg gallery in New York covers his work on the Vietnam War and the conflict in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
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War Photographers Change Focus
Link: I have talked a lot over the years to war photographers about their work. But I had to wonder this week when it becomes too much. In several interviews, some of the best visual artists of this generation talked about how they realized it was time to step away. They’re still focused on conflict…
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The Most Beautiful Girl They’ve Seen Or The Embedded Photojournalist Gets Picked Up!
I have argued this again and again, and have been reviled and criticized for it again and again. And
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War Photographers' Retreat: August In Massachusetts
Link: A retreat for photojournalists whose work takes them to wars, conflicts, and disasters. In honor of Tim Hetherington.
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War Is Boring
Link: In this very personal story Adam Ferguson gives us an unedited account of what it is like to be a combat photographer. He openly discusses what his feelings are about the troops, war photography, Afghanistan, and combat in general.