Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible: Michael Kamber Returns – NYTimes.com

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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 that our embed is postponed. The unit we’re to join has suffered a tragedy. “Yesterday, they had six soldiers killed by an Afghan border policeman-in-training,” she writes. Six families have just had their lives torn apart.