This post has been slow in coming, because I don’t know what to say.
Sarah Becking, one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, died on July 7th. She was a photographer in Columbia, and was working for the Sports Info department
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Whoever beat Trent Keegan to death probably wanted his computer. But why would robbers leave money in his pockets?
Questions like this trouble the friends and family of Keegan, 33, a New Zealand photojournalist who was murdered while working in Nairobi, Kenya last month.
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Documentary photographer John Ranard has died of liver cancer at the age of 56. Ranard covered topics including post-Soviet Russia, his own ailments and New York’s ethnic communities. He received first place in the 55th annual Pictures of the Year International contest for his work documenting the potential of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in post-Soviet Russia.
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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 motorcycle with thick sideburns and a battered Nikon around his neck. “Yeah,” my father said in a papery voice that made him suddenly sound much older. “Just gone.”
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Quote: “One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.”
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Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography in New York after a long and distinguished career as a photojournalist, first on the staff of Life magazine and then as a member of Magnum Photos, died Friday at his home in New York. He was 90.
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Accomplished Magnum photographer Cornell Capa passed away early on the morning of May 23rd at home in New York.
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During his long career as a photographer, Flip Schulke covered wars, presidents, rocket launches and the great human drama of the civil rights movement in the American South. But people always asked about one picture in particular: Muhammad Ali standing underwater.
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In his more than 60 years behind the lens, Flip Schulke photographed figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Jacques Cousteau, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elvis Presley, and John F. Kennedy. He created more than 500,000 photographs — 11,000 of those from the civil rights movement.
“I called him The Legend,” said Donna Schulke, Mr. Schulke’s fourth wife.
Schulke, 77, traveled all over — bringing the world, and the sea, home with his camera. But age and poor health recently slowed the adventurer, and he died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Columbia Hospital.
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Photojournalist Ashok Sodhi ran ahead of his colleagues and ignored police warnings as he ventured forth to capture pictures of the house where militants were holed up, firing at security forces Sunday morning.
Sodhi died in the exchange of fire.
“He ignored all warnings and stood right in front of the house from where the hail of bullets was coming,” recalled Faheem Tak, a reporter with a local TV channel.
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A 21-year-old student who was carrying out a project photographing sites where people commit suicide was found hanging from a tree, an inquest heard today.
Christian Drane, originally from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was studying at Southampton Solent University when his body was discovered in woods in the Polygon area of the Hampshire city on March 16 this year.
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VII Photo hosted an intimate and emotional gathering in New York Thursday for friends and family of Alexandra Boulat, who died Oct. 5.
Boulat, a conflict photojournalist and a founding member of VII, suffered a brain aneurysm last June while working in Gaza and never recovered. She died in Paris, where she was with her family, and many attended her funeral last year in France. Today would have been her 46th birthday.
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Beloved Magnum photographer Burt Glinn passed away early in the morning on April 9. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Glinn served in the U.S. Army from 1943-46 before studying literature at Harvard University, where he edited and took photographs for the Harvard Crimson. From 1949-50, Glinn worked for Life magazine before becoming a freelancer. He covered Castro’s takeover of Cuba and the Sinai War and created extensive portraits of countries all over the world. One of the first Americans to join Magnum, Glinn became an associate member of the young photo agency in 1951 and a full member in 1954. He served as president of Magnum from 1972-75 and was re-elected in 1987. He is survived by his wife Elena, son Sam, and daughter Norma.
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Reuters video photojournalist Fadel Shana, 23, was killed today on his way to cover a news story. When the Reuters TV vehicle that he and a soundman were traveling in stopped, Shana got out to start shooting and almost immediately an explosion killed him and two bystanders.
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Burt Glinn 1925-2008
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Peter Howe:
f you knew Wales, you knew Philip Jones Griffiths. To the end of his life he remained true to his Welshness, which defined him with a power that few environments exert. Both he and his birthplace are rife with contradictions. It is a breathtakingly beautiful land, and relentlessly bleak, a land of strong communities made up of fierce individualists, where physical poverty has produced spiritual richness. Philip’s personality reflected this duality. He was a cynical idealist; a serious man with a playful wit; his mind was analytical but his soul was passionate; profoundly moral he could be wickedly lascivious; he was opinionated but compassionate. The one area of his life that was without contradiction, and which dominated him to his last day, was his craft. He was without compromise, without hesitation and without deviation a photographer, one of the greatest photojournalists this profession has been proud to call its own.
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So how did Dith Pran, a sophisticated journalist, survive when the Khmer Rouge was rooting out and killing most intellectuals?
A Cambodian banker I know survived by playing the village idiot. Pran survived by reading character. His brilliance as a journalist for figuring out chaotic situations in war was critical during the revolution. He, of course, hid his background, but he read people the way he had read all of us, foreigner and Cambodian alike. He knew what we were good for and where we were hopeless. During the Khmer Rouge revolution, he had to rely on those finely honed instincts to survive.
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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, Kent Potter, 23, of United Press International, and Keisaburo Shimamoto, 34, of Newsweek were killed their South Vietnamese helicopter lost its way over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and was shot down by a North Vietnamese 37-mm anti-aircraft gun. Three of Saigon’s soldiers and the four-man flight crew also perished in the midair explosion.
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Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people’s rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J.
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