Ms. Cherry was originally a dancer, but she abandoned the “fantasy world” of dance as a young woman to document the reality of life in New York.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/obituaries/vivian-cherry-dead.html
Vivian Cherry, a photographer whose gritty black-and-white images of street scenes recall a bygone era in New York City, died on March 4 in Albuquerque. She was 98.
The Pultizer Prize-winning photojournalist covered conflict and other major news events as a Reuters staff photographer for 30 years.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/03/obituary-reuters-photographer-yannis-behrakis-58.html
Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis, who led a team of photographers that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for coverage of Europe’s migrant refugee crisis, died March 2 of cancer, according to Reuters. He was 58.
Respected photojournalist covered violence and upheaval across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/mar/03/pulitzer-prize-winning-reuters-photographer-yannis-behrakis-dies-aged-58
Respected photojournalist covered violence and upheaval across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
Elbaum, a Smith College graduate, was the first journalist killed in the Chechnyan War.
via Massachusetts Daily Collegian: https://dailycollegian.com/2019/02/amherst-college-professor-leads-grief-in-focus-lecture-on-the-legacy-of-photojournalist-cynthia-elbaum/
Elbaum was killed in 1994 by a Russian air raid
His camera was an extension of his brain and his eye, and it did not shy away from danger or death.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/priya-ramrakhas-brief-heroic-life-as-a-conflict-photographer-in-africa-and-beyond
first met Priya Ramrakha on a back street in Kampala, Uganda, in 1966. I was helping him and his editor at Time/Life, where I worked as a stringer and a fixer, to rent an aircraft to fly to Bukavu, in the eastern Congo, where some white mercenaries had taken over the town. Hiring the small plane required tedious paperwork in a government office, so, while the editor filled out an application, Priya wandered outside, into the equatorial sunshine and the broken road, his camera around his neck, and I followed. A large, dark snake, probably a mamba, highly poisonous, lay dead in the road. Priya stood over it. He cocked his head, then he raised his camera and looked through the viewfinder. He did not snap a picture; he paced around the snake and continued to examine it through his camera lens, bringing it into focus, enlarging it, studying it. I realized then that that was how he saw the world—that the camera was an extension of his brain and his eye, and that it did not shy away from danger or death.
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The Half King, a bar favored by war correspondents and conflict photographers, endured all kinds of disasters in its 19 years. Then came the tourists.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/nyregion/half-king-nyc-closing.html
The Half King, a bar and restaurant in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, has been for the better part of two decades a watering hole for writers, photographers and filmmakers. On a given afternoon, you might have seen journalists and their editors discussing projects over coffee at one of the pub’s wooden booths. You may have passed publicists sharing baskets of jalapeño poppers with prospective authors in the adjacent dining room. You may have overheard war-hardened combat photographers swapping violent scenes of faraway places over $5 happy hour draft beers along the lengthy stretch of bar top.
Desmond Boylan, a photographer who covered war and conflict across the world before dedicating his life to documenting the joys and tribulations of daily life in Cuba for The Associated Press, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon in Havana
via ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ap-photographer-desmond-boylan-dies-havana-54-60080524
Desmond Boylan, a photographer who covered war and conflict across the world before dedicating his life to documenting the daily joys and tribulations of life in Cuba for The Associated Press, died suddenly while on assignment on Saturday afternoon in Havana. He was 54.
Carl Caruso, a longtime former photographer for Chicago Tribune, dies at 92
via chicagotribune.com: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-met-carl-caruso-obituary-20181119-story.html
Carl Caruso started at the Chicago Tribune as a copy boy, launching a 45-year career in which he also worked as a photographer, and managed and modernized the newspaper’s photo lab.
When the bullets started spitting his way on that day in 1978 on the jungle airstrip in Guyana, Bob Brown did what he had always done as a news cameraman. He kept filming. As the half-dozen gunmen sent by cult madman Jim Jones bounded off a tractor-traile
via SFChronicle.com: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jonestown-40-years-later-The-story-of-a-13382701.php
When the bullets started spitting his way on that day in 1978 on the jungle airstrip in Guyana, Bob Brown did what he had always done as a news cameraman. He kept filming.
He toured the world, often to record the aftermath of calamity, and collaborated on books with acclaimed writers.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/obituaries/jean-mohr-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Jean Mohr, a Swiss photographer who brought a humanist’s eye to refugee camps, the Palestinian territories and places of distress all over the world, died on Saturday in Geneva. He was 93.
Renowned Armenian-Turkish Turkish photojournalist Ara Guler has died. As one of the few prominent internationally-recognized photographers from Turkey,
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/10/19/renowned-turkish-photojournalist-ara-guler-dies-at-90/
Renowned Armenian-Turkish Turkish photojournalist Ara Guler has died. As one of the few prominent internationally-recognized photographers from Turkey, Guler was known as “The Eye of Istanbul.”
Some readers are probably not aware that photographer David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018) made the Nikon and Nikkor brand names known all over the world when he was covering the Korean war in 1950: “Mr. Duncan shot in black and white, with lightweight Leica
via Nikon Rumors: https://nikonrumors.com/2018/06/10/in-memoriam-david-douglas-duncan.aspx/
Some readers are probably not aware that photographer David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018) made the Nikon and Nikkor brand names known all over the world when he was covering the Korean war in 1950:
Legendary American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan has died. One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, Duncan was best known for
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/06/08/photojournalist-david-douglas-duncan-dies-at-102/
Legendary American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan has died. One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, Duncan was best known for his combat photographs captured during World War II and the Korean War.
Among the most influential photographers of the 20th century, he was also known for his extensive pictorial record of Pablo Picasso’s life.
Under the helmets, the faces are young and tormented, stubbled and dirty, taut with the strain of battle. They sob over dead friends. They stare exhausted into the fog and rain. They crouch in a muddy foxhole. This goddamn cigarette could be the last.
There are no heroes in David Douglas Duncan’s images of war.
Dismissed in his country of birth, Iran, as a Bahai with an anti-Islam agenda, the photojournalist was an observer of what people across religions do in the name of God
via The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/abbas-dead-death-dies-magnum-photographer-iran-revolution-profile-a8357466.html
Dismissed in his country of birth, Iran, as a Bahai with an anti-Islam agenda, the photojournalist was an observer of what people across religions do in the name of God
South African photographer Sam Nzima has died. He’s best known for shooting an iconic photo of the apartheid, a photo of Hector Pieterson being carried
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/05/15/sam-nzima-photographer-behind-iconic-apartheid-image-dies-at-83/
South African photographer Sam Nzima has died. He’s best known for shooting an iconic photo of the apartheid, a photo of Hector Pieterson being carried after being shot by South African police during the Soweto uprising. Nzima was 83.
South African photographer Sam Nzima, whose iconic photograph (right) from a Soweto uprising in 1976 helped turn world opinion against apartheid, died Saturday in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, according to press reports. He was 83. Nzima’s famous pho
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/05/sam-nzima-took-iconic-apartheid-photo-dies-83.html
South African photographer Sam Nzima, whose iconic photograph (right) from a Soweto uprising in 1976 helped turn world opinion against apartheid, died Saturday in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, according to press reports. He was 83.
The death of my friend Shah Marai reminded me that I will never be free from the devastation of Afghanistan.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/magazine/afghanistan-bombing-journalists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
On April 30, I read the first tweets about the initial bombing in downtown Kabul as I was going to bed. In Ottawa, the place I have called home for the past four years, news of an attack in Afghanistan always triggers a flurry of text messages to my mother. She assured me that everyone in my family was fine. I woke up an hour later to her texting me about a second blast. A suicide bomber, carrying a camera to blend in, had detonated explosives that killed 25 people, including nine journalists. She wanted to know if I knew any of them. I did.
Shah Marai was Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer in Kabul. He supported five blind relatives as he focused his camera on the human suffering around him.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/asia/shah-marai-afghan-photographer-killed.html
KABUL, Afghanistan — Through the dark days of the 1990s civil war and the Taliban’s oppressive rule, the Afghan photographer Shah Marai never left his country. As the bloodshed continued after the 2001 American-led invasion, he repeatedly expressed a feeling shared by so many Afghans caught in the devastating cycle: “There is no more hope.”