Category: Photojournalism

I watch soldiers kill off the wounded in the hospital. With bayonets. Two young men are added to the bodies already piling up all over the courtyard. The morgue is flowing over.

some of AFP’s photographers explain the issues and their techniques for documenting tragedy

I have wanted to photograph life inside Caracas’ Tower of David – also known as “the vertical slum” – for years now. At times, it became something of an obsession; it was a story I had to tackle.

We hear gunshots, then well-trained fighters swiftly invade the base. They’re in camouflage, wearing masks and carrying kalashnikovs — and they don’t hesitate to point these at us. The atmosphere is incredibly tense, several Ukrainians get punched.

At Reuters we are presently carrying out workshops with our photographers in the United States and South America about The Wider Image, the name for Reuters’ branded, long-form, storytelling photojournalism. We have already done the same thing in the Middle East and Africa, Europe and Asia.