One of the first things the New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks witnessed after arriving in Afghanistan in late 2001, soon after U.S. airstrikes on Oct. 7 opened the invasion, was the execution of a wounded Taliban fighter. The scene shocked him, upending everything he thought he knew about war and about the Afghan Northern Alliance — the U.S.-aligned fighters who had been his guides and protectors, and the Talib’s killers.
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The Afghan War: A Photographer’s Journal Since 2001 – The New York Times
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The Enemy Is Us | Conscientious Photography Magazine
https://cphmag.com/enemy-is-us/The photographers who go out to photograph wars know that the actual experience of being in a war zone cannot be communicated with pictures. The people who look at photographs of war now know very well that war photography also doesn’t do much for or to them. It’s debatable to what extent war photographs have shaped the public discourse.
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Photos From America’s Longest War – The New York Times
Here, in chronological order, are images showing the long arc of the war, as seen through the eyes of New York Times photographers.
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Stephen Dupont on documenting Afghanistan’s “Forever War” | 1854 Photography
Stephen Dupont on documenting Afghanistan’s “Forever War”
Dupont has spent decades reporting from Afghanistan. Here, he discusses his work in the region, and what the future might hold
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Photojournalist Shares His Experience of Documenting the War on ISIS | PetaPixel
https://petapixel.com/2021/05/03/photojournalist-shares-his-experience-of-documenting-the-war-on-isis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+petapixel+%28PetaPixel%29In a six-minute video with Vice, news photographer Felipe Dana recounts his experiences of documenting the War on ISIS and shows photos that illustrate the complex emotions felt by the affected communities.
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The photographer risking it all to capture Kashmir’s conflict
The photographer risking it all to capture Kashmir’s conflict
For the past 10 years, Syed Shahriyar has photographed gun battles across the Indian subcontinent and the funerals of militants and policemen. Despite the danger, he’s determined to document life there for future generations.
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Industry Insights: Ron Haviv on the changing landscape of conflict photography | 1854 Photography
Industry Insights: Ron Haviv on the changing landscape of conflict photography
From cutting through the oversaturated image market to combating fake news, the renowned conflict photographer and Emmy-nominated filmmaker discusses how the role – and risks – of photojournalism continue to shift in the digital age
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‘You Are Not A Soldier’: Watch Clip Of Hot Docs Film About André Liohn – Deadline
‘You Are Not A Soldier’: Watch Clip Of Hot Docs Film About War Photographer André Liohn
Brazilian production and distribution outfit Elo Company has unveiled a first look at their new documentary feature You Are Not A Soldier, which will have its world premiere at Hot Docs this week
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Don McCullin – Photographs by Don McCullin | Exhibition review by Mark Durden | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/don-mccullin-don-mccullinFrom his pictures of wars and famines from around the world to his social documentary work in Britain, this retrospective draws together work from all aspects of this British photographer’s remarkable career.
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Blind – Peter van Agtmael Chronicles the Frontlines of War in the 21st Century
Peter van Agtmael Chronicles the Frontlines of War in the 21st Century
While at Yale, van Agtmael also developed a more critical approach to the mythos of America he had consumed as a youth. His friends, Chesa Boudin, now the District Attorney of San Francisco, and Sarah Sillman, currently a staff writer at The New Yorker, shared their perspectives on “how power is used to manipulate people across the political spectrum into a status quo narrative of the nature of American power and justice,” helping him to see beneath the surface of things and find a new way to engage.
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The Twenty Years War | Conscientious Photography Magazine
https://cphmag.com/the-twenty-years-war/Peter van Agtmael has been documenting the Twenty Year War since its very beginning. I first spoke with him in 2007 and then again ten years later. He has published a number of books, all of them essential records of a country too embroiled in its own senseless militarism to recognise the folly of it all. There’s Disco Night Sept. 11, there is Buzzing at the Sill, and now there is Sorry for the War.
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We’re Just Sayin: Fifty Years On…
http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2021/02/fifty-years-on.htmlWhen I told John I was heading to Vietnam, he said to me… “do a story for me – call it Children of War…” I paused, then bagan to ask, “John, what do you want me to do… ?” and before I could finish the sentence, he said “No, no! You tell ME the Story. YOU’re the journalist, your pictures should show ME the story.” Over the decades since, I have been immensely glad for that teaching moment.
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Blind – When War Reporters Document Peace
When War Reporters Document Peace
The VII Foundation presents a new book by photographer Gary Knight. Imagine: Reflections on Peace (also published in French as Imagine: Penser la paix), created in collaboration with several photo reporters and journalists, is a collection of 200 images accompanied by reflections on the imperfect construction of peace.
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A searing elegy on war in Iraq and Afghanistan
A searing elegy on war in Iraq and Afghanistan
From 2003 to 2008, Ben Brody worked as a combat photographer in Iraq, capturing both the immense brutality and unseen, candid moments that defined the war.
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Guerrero at war: chronicling southern Mexico’s forgotten conflict – photo essay | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/guerrero-at-war-chronicling-southern-mexico-forgotten-conflict-photo-essayAlfredo Bosco came to Guerrero on assignment to document southern Mexican villages emptied out by conflict. Over repeated visits he documents the region’s story
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Photos: The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/11/photos-2020-nagorno-karabakh-war/617123/One week ago, on November 10, a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement was signed by the president of Azerbaijan and the prime minister of Armenia, ending six weeks of warfare over disputed territory in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It is estimated that thousands of fighters and more than a hundred civilians were killed in the fierce conflict. Nagorno-Karabakh—officially part of Azerbaijan, but controlled by ethnic Armenians—broke away from Azerbaijan in a six-year-long war that ended in 1994, but was never completely resolved. In September of this year, simmering conflicts broke out into war once again, with each side blaming the other for escalations. The new ceasefire agreement cedes control of large areas of disputed territory back to Azerbaijan, and places 2,000 Russian soldiers in the area to act as peacekeepers. As the handover date approached last weekend, some villagers set their own homes on fire before fleeing to Armenia.
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The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk
The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk
If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie.
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‘War was my life.’ Gary Knight on a career spent in conflict | British GQ
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/gary-knight-imagine-reflections-on-peaceGary Knight has documented conflicts in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and farther afield. In this extract from a new book, Imagine: Reflections On Peace, the photographer looks back on a career characterised in equal parts by violence and hope and asks what it really means to be at peace
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Thana Faroq: “I documented women displaced by the war. Now I’m one of them” – British Journal of Photography
https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/09/thana-faroq-i-used-to-document-the-lives-of-women-displaced-by-the-war-and-now-im-one-of-them/Faroq left her native Yemen a year after the war broke out in 2015, and never returned. The experience recast her practice, and she began to turn the camera on herself
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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.