Category: War

  • War Without End – The New York Times

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    War Without End (Published 2018) The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/magazine/war-afghanistan-iraq-soldiers.html The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

  • Lynsey Addario: An Unexpected Retrospective – The New York Times

    Lynsey Addario: An Unexpected Retrospective – The New York Times

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    Lynsey Addario: An Unexpected Retrospective (Published 2018) 20 years of photographs of conflict and women’s issue are collected in her new book “Of Love and War” Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/lens/lynsey-addario-an-unexpected-retrospective.html 20 years of photographs of conflict and women’s issue are collected in her new book “Of Love and War”

  • In Libya’s war, Hifter’s forces battle U.N.-backed government militias on Tripoli’s front lines – The Washington Post

    In Libya’s war, Hifter’s forces battle U.N.-backed government militias on Tripoli’s front lines – The Washington Post

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    Under fire on Libya’s front lines: An up-close, highly visual account of the worst fighting since Gaddafi An up-close, highly visual account of the worst fighting in Tripoli since Gaddafi’s ouster via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/amp-stories/libya-front-lines/ A free and ethical photo sharing platform.

  • Why the press struggles to cover the war in Yemen – Columbia Journalism Review

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    Why the press struggles to cover the war in Yemen In the wake of 9/11, when the US invaded Afghanistan, journalists flew into the country with American troops and filed stories on America’s war against terrorism. Later, in 2003, the press helped convince the American public that the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of…

  • “What their eyes have seen …” : The heirs of Robert Capa

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    Link: From her work on war photographers around the world, Alizé Le Maoult offers diptychs composed of the frontal portrait of these photographers and an image they chose from all the conflicts they covered, and their words to explain this choice. A strong and unique testimony:

  • Death of a Freelancer | HuffPost

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    Death of a Freelancer Christopher Allen reported in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Who was looking out for him? Link: https://www.huffpost.com/feature/chris-allen-death-of-a-freelancer Christopher Allen reported in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Who was looking out for him?

  • Maxim Dondyuk: Culture of the Confrontation – British Journal of Photography

    Maxim Dondyuk: Culture of the Confrontation – British Journal of Photography

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    Maxim Dondyuk: Culture of the Confrontation ‘There is nothing worse than war – both sides always lose,’ says the Ukrainian photographer, whose documentation of the Euromaidan protests is now published in a photobook via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/12/maxim-dondyuk-culture-of-the-confrontation/ “There is nothing worse than war – both sides always lose,” says the Ukrainian photographer, whose…

  • Shooting War P3: Author Dr. Anthony Feinstein – 10 Frames Per Second

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    [contentcards url=“http://10fps.net/shooting-war-p3-author-dr-anthony-feinstein/”] Shooting War P3: Author Dr. Anthony Feinstein – 10 Frames Per Second Anthony Feinstein, author of the book Shooting War, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a neuropsychiatrist. His research and clinical work focuses on people with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury and Conversion Disorder. War contains 18…

  • A Chat with War Photographer Lynsey Addario

    A Chat with War Photographer Lynsey Addario

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    A Chat with War Photographer Lynsey Addario Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who’s well known for her work on the front lines of conflict and human rights issues. In this 8-minute video via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/11/22/a-chat-with-war-photographer-lynsey-addario/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who’s well known for her work on the front lines of conflict and…

  • Lauren Walsh’s Conversations on Conflict Photography

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    [contentcards url=“https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/lauren-walshs-conversations-on-conflict-photography-bb/”] Lauren Walsh’s Conversations on Conflict Photography This line of enquiry lies at the heart of Lauren Walsh’s new book, Conversations on Conflict Photography, where conflict is defined as war and crisis, social inequities, natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies. Richly illustrated with 110 colour and B&W photographs, the 376-page book is sectioned into three…

  • When Women Photographers Went to War

    When Women Photographers Went to War

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    When Women Photographers Went to War From Gerda Taro to Susan Meiselas, a new book examines the ways eight women have expanded the field of war photography. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/women-war-photography/ From Gerda Taro to Susan Meiselas, a new book examines the ways eight women have expanded the field of war photography.

  • Balkan War Photojournalists Recall Being ‘Witnesses to History’ | Balkan Insight

    Balkan War Photojournalists Recall Being ‘Witnesses to History’ | Balkan Insight

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    Balkan War Photojournalists Recall Being ‘Witnesses to History’ Renowned photographers Ron Haviv and Christopher Morris spoke in Zagreb about how they tried to be the ‘eyes of the world’ during the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. via Balkan Insight: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/11/20/balkan-war-photojournalists-recall-being-witnesses-to-history/ US photographers Ron Haviv and Christopher Morris presented some of the most important of their images…

  • Delving into the psyche of war photographers

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    Delving into the psyche of war photographers Ron Csillag speaks with neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein about his book, Shooting War. via The Canadian Jewish News: https://www.cjnews.com/culture/entertainment/delving-into-the-psyche-of-war-photographers Feinstein’s Shooting War is a remarkable book that combines 18 essays, one each for some of the world’s pre-eminent conflict photographers, alongside a single, jarring photograph around which the text…

  • Five conflict photographers on some of the hardest images they’ve taken | World news | The Guardian

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    Five conflict photographers on some of the hardest images they’ve taken The new book Conversations on Conflict Photography delves into the stories behind some of the most critical images photographers have had to take via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/24/five-conflict-photographers-on-some-of-the-hardest-images-theyve-taken The new book Conversations on Conflict Photography delves into the stories behind some of the most critical…

  • Yemen, the war that they are hiding from us

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    [contentcards url=“https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/yemen-the-war-we-are-hiding/”] Yemen, the war that they are hiding from us In addition to the almost daily bombings of the Saudi-led Coalition, which sometimes targets civilians, the beleaguered Yemenis of the North have been suffering from shortages of water, oil, food and medicine. Every ten minutes a child dies, most of the time from a…

  • Ivor Prickett : End of the Caliphate

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    Ivor Prickett : End of the Caliphate Ivor Prickett’s book End of the Caliphate is the result of months spent on the ground in Iraq and Syria between 2016 and 2018 photographing the battle to defeat ISIS. Working exclusively for the New York Times, Prickett was often embedded with Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish forces as…

  • Photographers Who Bear Witness to War Pay a Steep Price

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    [contentcards url=”https://www.thedailybeast.com/photographers-who-bear-witness-to-war-pay-a-steep-price”] Photographers Who Bear Witness to War Pay a Steep Price In “Shooting War,” neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein examines the impact of war, natural disasters, and other crises on the photographers who document them.

  • An insider look at Kurdistan’s fight against ISIS

    An insider look at Kurdistan’s fight against ISIS

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    An insider look at Kurdistan’s fight against ISIS “I could read all the articles, books, and social media accounts in the world about what led to the war in Iraq and Syria, but that doesn’t constitute experience,” writes photographer Joey L. in his book We Came From Fire: Photographs of Kurdistan’s Armed via Huck Magazine:…

  • How this Syrian filmmaker captured war first-hand

    How this Syrian filmmaker captured war first-hand

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    How this Syrian filmmaker captured war first-hand When civil war broke out in Syria, Waad Al-Kateab picked up the camera – and didn’t put it down. The result is now a feature-length documentary. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/film-2/for-sama-waad-al-kateab-edward-watts-interview-documentary/ When civil war broke out in Syria, Waad Al-Kateab picked up the camera – and didn’t put it…

  • ‘We face a different danger,’ war photographer Paul Conroy says – Committee to Protect Journalists

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    ‘We face a different danger,’ war photographer Paul Conroy says In a Q&A with CPJ, British war photographer Paul Conroy discusses his last assignment with Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin in Syria, in 2012, and the dangers for photojournalists, especially when covering conflict…. Link: https://cpj.org/blog/2019/05/paul-conroy-photojournalist-safety-syria-under-the-wire.php In a Q&A with CPJ, British war photographer Paul Conroy…