A video posted online today by The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows a militant in the act of beheading American freelance photojournalist James W. Foley.
The YouTube video titled “A Message To #America (from the #IslamicState) shows a barefoot man standing, and on his knees, who is identified as Foley. He is wearing an orange shirt and pants. Standing beside him is a black-clad, masked ISIS militant. During the five-minute video Foley was forced to read an anti-American statement in which he was made to say that his “real killer” is America.
This profession is cruel to those who work behind the curtains: The wizards of Oz that pull the essential levers of organisation, the talent sniffers that gamble on the 20 years old with cameras and dreams, the intuition filled masters of scoops, the eagle-eyed editors that spot the jewel photograph in a river of stills, the never sleeping news hungry hunters who turn a snippet of information into a world event. They are hardly acknowledged and never remembered
Camilli was well-respected among the cadre of journalists who worked in Gaza. He had relocated to Jerusalem in 2006 and has covered a number of the conflicts in Gaza and the West Bank
The Associated Press said an Italian video journalist, Simone Camilli, and his Palestinian interpreter had been observing a Gaza squad trying to disarm a bomb.
The A.P. journalist, Simone Camilli, 35, died when Gaza police engineers were trying to disable the ordnance in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, the news agency reported
An Associated Press video journalist and a freelance Palestinian translator assisting him were killed in an ordnance explosion Wednesday while working on an assignment about the aftermath about the recent war in the Gaza Strip.
Rami Rayan, a photographer with the Palestine Network for Press and Media, was killed July 30 in an air strike by the Israeli Defense Forces in the Shuja’iya neighborhood of Gaza, Reporters Without Borders reports. Rayan’s network manager told Committee t
Rami Rayan’s network manager told Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that the photographer was covering civilians shopping during what they thought was a four-hour “humanitarian window” ceasefire declared by Israel, but the Israeli military had noted it would not protect Shuja’iya and certain other areas of the city.
Seattle-based photographer Jini Dellaccio (link is external) died last week at the age of 97. She was best known for her images of the Pacific Northwest music scene in the 1960s, including major acts such as Neil Young, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, and the Who
Robert Lebeck (1929-2014) was a photographer for the German magazine Stern and one of his country’s greatest photojournalists. He died on June 14th. His gallery, Lumas, sent us these photographs as a tribute. For Lebeck’s 80th birthday in 2009, the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin held a major retrospective of his work.
Herral Long, an award-winning photojournalist who captured news events with artistry during a Blade career that spanned the second half of the 20th century …
“I think I read somewhere – it’s not original with me – but I was told if you find a job you really love, you won’t have to work the rest of your life,” Mr. Long said.
Roger Mayne, whose images of working class neighborhoods in London in the late 1950s established his reputation as an important post-war British photographer, died June 7th at the age of 85, according to a statement from Gitterman Gallery. The cause of de
From former President Gerald R. Ford to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, longtime Detroit News photographer Ricardo Thomas always brought out the best in his subjects. But even more stunning than his shots was his genuine care for the people in his pictures, according to his colleagues and family.
The Italian Foreign Ministry today confirmed that photojournalist Andy Rocchelli, 30, and his interpreter, journalist Andrei Mironov, a Russian citizen from RU Memorial, died from wounds suffered yesterday in Slaviansk.
Anyone associated with photojournalism in the 60’s through the 90’s is familiar with the name Henri Bureau. His image of the burning oil refineries in Abadan, Iran during the Iran/Iraq war in 1980 viewed from the back of an Iranian Soldier that is on his home page www.henribureau.com will forever be emblazoned in my photographic memory.
His friends called him “Nounours” (Teddy). Henri Bureau died the day before yesterday. He was an impetuous, flamboyant, big-mouthed bon vivant. But he was above all a great photographer
The 26-year-old French photographer Camille Lepage had begun to establish herself as a rising star in a ferociously competitive industry when she was caught up in a deadly shoot-out between rival militia in the Central African Republic, where she had spent recent months chronicling the impoverished country’s sectarian bloodletting and its impact on the civilian population.
Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old photographer who considered it her duty to delve into stories in often-overlooked places, was killed in the Central African Republic. Nicholas Kulish remembers.
Robert Lebeck 1929 – 2014
Henri Bureau 1940 – 2014