Category: War
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ZORIAH: Embed Termination – Statement About My Situation in Iraq
Photo by Zoriah After the post was online, I was told that the Marine Corps would not allow even the pants or shoes of a injured or killed Marine to be depicted in images. This was a rule I had never been told or even heard of. I refused to remove the blog post. It…
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Photo Essay Grozny – Then and Now – Eric Bouvet
Eric Bouvet covered the Second Chechen War from October to December of 1999, and returned in February 2000. Bouvet traveled with three Russian officers during his second visit to the region and witnessed up-close the destruction and decay of a country ravaged by war. In Grozny, Chechnya’s capital city, buildings were all but leveled, tens…
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Behind the Lens with Stacy Pearsall – – PopPhotoJune 2008
Combat photojournalist Stacy Pearsall was named the Military Photographer of the Year recently for the second time. One of only two women to take home the honor, she is the first woman to take it twice. Having just finished serving as a mentor for the annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Workshop, Pearsall talked with…
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War Photog Blends Video, Stills for New Combat Views
Ziv Koren is a world-renown combat photographer whose coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has vaulted him to international acclaim. Now, he’s helping invent a whole new visual aesthetic that digitally combines still photos with moving images, seamlessly. Check it out here.
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The search for Sean Flynn continues: mensvogue.com
The first time my father told me about Sean Flynn’s disappearance, I felt as if a spider had walked down my spine. “Just gone?” I said, looking down at a picture that was taken of Sean hours before he vanished into the Cambodian countryside in April 1970 — a heart-stoppingly handsome young man on a…
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Wars: Chechnya and Iraq. A Magnum photo essay. – – Slate Magazine
Photographs by Thomas Dworzak “I’m embedded with the Americans in Iraq. As a Westerner, there is no more access to the insurgents’ side. I don’t claim to have any overview. History made my choice—it’s fine!” Check it out here.
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Sudan's Macabre Display Of Victory Over Attackers – washingtonpost.com
With state TV cameras set up across a dusty field, he surveyed a row of battered and bullet-holed Hilux trucks that government forces had seized from the rebels. Bashir raised an ivory-tipped baton, and hundreds of security forces cheered, waving shoes, T-shirts and other clothes allegedly stripped off the doomed fighters. Then he strolled past…
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The Most Curious Thing – Errol Morris
The question kept coming up. How do you explain the smile? What does it mean? Not only is she smiling, she is smiling with her thumbs-up – over a dead body. The photograph suggests that she may have killed the guy, and she looks proud of it. She looks happy. I should back up a…
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Close enough… | Blogs | Reuters.com
From Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic who is near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan with the U.S. 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit come these 4 frames from a sequence taken when the unit came under fire from Taliban fighters May 18, 2008. Check it out here.
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Remembering Sean Flynn: a Photojournalist Who Died at War (VIDEO)
Most people who remember the album “Combat Rock” by The Clash might remember a song called Sean Flynn, but they probably don’t know exactly who the early punkers were talking about. The son of Hollywood movie actor Errol Flynn, he could have lived his life a thousand different ways. Sean Flynn had a semi-successful acting…
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Joe Galloway Was Not on the Pentagon 'Propaganda' Bus — As These Emails Show
In light of the current uproar over the Pentagon’s “propaganda” program involving retired military officers deployed on the media, it is worth recalling that famed military reporter Joe Galloway took issue with the official line long before he retired nearly two years ago. In fact, two years ago this month he went out with a…
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The Art of Soviet Propaganda: Iconic Red Army Reichstag Photo Faked
A Soviet soldier heroically waves the red flag, the hammer and sickle billow above the Reichstag. Yevgeny Khaldei photographed one of the iconic images of the 20th century. But the legendary image was manipulated to conceal the fact that the Soviet soldiers on the roof had been looting. An exhibition of Khaldei’s work opens in…
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Atomic Tragedy — Photos
The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the…
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I was hooked on the story in Afghanistan
by John D McHugh I am back in Afghanistan for the fifth time in two years. I have a lot in common with the British, Canadian and American soldiers deployed in the country. Like many of them, I have been here before and I have been under fire. And, dubious though the honour is, I…
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Dana Milbank – What the Family Would Let You See, the Pentagon Obstructs – washingtonpost.com
Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know that. The family of 38-year-old Hall, who leaves behind two young daughters and two stepsons,…
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Lawyer: Military Only Produced 2 Witnesses Against AP Photog
The U.S. military produced only two witnesses to testify at Bilal Hussein’s investigative hearing, according to Hussein’s lawyer. In the first details to be revealed about the court proceedings, attorney Paul Gardephe says two Marines who arrested Hussein in 2006 testified against him by videoconference. The military also presented evidence including 64 CDs that contained…
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UnionLeader.com – New Hampshire news – Michael Fumento: A fitting honor for a heroic, fallen SEAL – Friday, Apr. 11, 2008
IT WAS THE spring of 2006 and I was embedded as a photojournalist in the meanest part of the meanest city in Iraq — Ramadi. Here the bad guys ruled. Leaving your base camp virtually guaranteed a fight. I got one the first day. When shots rang out, I jumped into the street and started…
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Four Photojournalists Killed During Vietnam War Come Home For Burial
Remains from the crash site where four photojournalists were killed when their helicopter went down in Laos during the Vietnam war will be buried on Thursday April 3, 2008, during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington. On February 10, 1971, photographers Henri Huet, 43, of the Associated Press, Larry Burrows, 44, of Life magazine,…
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A great digital imaging project honors the fallen
Photographer Peter Krogh (author of the excellent The DAM Book, the Rapid Fixer extension for Bridge, and more) recently completed an ambitious & enormous digital imaging project: photographing all 58,256 names listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, enabling the creation of an interactive online version of the wall. By stitching together some 1,494 digital images…
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In Shiite Slums, Victory Must Be Won in the Alleys – New York Times
Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye That dream, a nightmare, really, flashed through my mind as I stood at the end of a filthy, pothole-riddled alley talking with a small-time deputy commander in the Mahdi Army, the militia that is the armed wing of Mr. Sadr’s political movement. Standing there with his arms folded over his potbelly…