Joao Silva – Bearing Witness to History – NYTimes.com

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Trent
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Bearing Witness

Why photographers like The Times’s Joao Silva, who lost his legs in Afghanistan this year, risk their lives for their profession.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/weekinreview/26kamber.html?_r=1

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, Joao Silva was a troubled high school dropout on the streets of Johannesburg. His future looked bleak until the day a friend took him along on a photo shoot. Joao fell in love with the camera.