Dickey Chapelle was one of history’s most fearless conflict journalists—and the first American woman to die on the job.
Dickey Chapelle was one of history’s most fearless conflict journalists—and the first American woman to die on the job.
American soldiers are at the center of a crop of new books about Iraq and Afghanistan. This contributes to an incomplete narrative of those wars.
via The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/02/americas-war-narrative-focuses-on-its-heroes-and-victims-afghans-and-iraqis-are-brushed-aside/
THE YOUNG NEWSPAPER reporter wanted to write a book about the war he was covering. But the editors who read his proposal turned it down, all of them. They said the book wouldn’t sell because Americans were tired of reading about these violent foreigners and their centuries-old grudges. The reporter asked for advice from a colleague who had far more experience with these things. Focus the book on someone your readers will connect with, he was told.
These uncovered photos explore previously buried scenes of the Vietnam War, as well as the outsize role of a publication led by two tenacious women.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/lens/forgotten-images-vietnam-war.html
For more than four decades, Art Greenspon kept his recollections of photographing the Vietnam War for Overseas Weekly tucked away deep in his memory, as inaccessible as the images themselves. Then, in 2014, a treasure trove of 35 mm negatives emerged from the gloom of a Scandinavian cellar, vividly reminding Mr. Greenspon of his time working for the scrappy little alternative tabloid.
In August 2013, Egyptian photographer Mosa’ab Elshamy witnessed the military killings of hundreds of protesters
via Time: http://time.com/longform/rabaa-square-massacre-legacy/
In the early hours of Aug. 14, I was trying to make my way into Rabaa Square with my camera, unaware of the violence I was about to witness. The sun had just become visible on the horizon when a block of armored military vehicles jammed the square — one of Cairo’s busiest thoroughfares — shutting down all major exits to the sit-in. Police and military soldiers advanced to clear the sit-in using live ammunition, armored vehicles and snipers. Around 800 people were killed in fewer than 12 hours. A huge fire engulfed the sit-in, burning down tents and the nearby Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque.
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.
Fifteen years ago, I left Turkey and walked for four nights through monsoon-like rains. To photograph war.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/i-walked-into-iraq-8c27a07250b8
Fifteen years ago, at the start of the war on Iraq, I left Turkey and walked for four nights through monsoon-like rains into Iraq. I was on assignment for Time. I didn’t tell this story for ten years.
Photojournalist Andrew Quilty reflects on his place as an outsider in Afghanistan, exploring themes of reality versus role-playing…
via Medium: https://medium.com/re-picture/working-around-reductionism-in-afghanistan-92551ab014b6
Photojournalist Andrew Quilty reflects on his place as an outsider in Afghanistan, exploring themes of reality versus role-playing, clichés, and the importance of photographer-editor relationships.
Australia’s Luke Cody explains how he manages fear in some of the world’s most intense conflict zones.
via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvxkmw/what-its-like-to-be-a-freelance-war-photographer
Australia’s Luke Cody explains how he manages fear in some of the world’s most intense conflict zones.
Rania Abouzeid’s new book, “No Turning Back,” traces the escalation of the Syrian war by following a diverse set of characters within it.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/magazine/rania-abouzeid-syrian-war.html
A conversation with Rania Abouzeid, author of “No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria” (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018)
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine. His journey reveals a troubling development in Putin’s information war.
via Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking/
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine—and a foot soldier in Russia’s information war.
More than a thousand people are believed to have been killed in recent weeks as Syrian government forces laid siege to the rebel-controlled region of eastern Ghouta.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/the-siege-of-eastern-ghouta-and-seven-years-of-war-in-syria/555377/
More than a thousand people are believed to have been killed in recent weeks as Syrian government forces laid siege to the rebel-controlled region of eastern Ghouta outside the capital of Damascus. The United Nations estimates that 400,000 people still live in the villages and towns in the besieged region, trapped by several rebel groups who won’t let them leave and by Syrian government blockades that block their paths. Despite international pressure to call a ceasefire, Syrian ground forces and Russian-backed air forces have maintained their assault, recently gaining territory and splitting the region into three parts. This battle is just one of many still taking place across the fractured nation of Syria seven years since the start of its civil war.
A collection of photos by and of Chris Hondros, who risked and then tragically lost his life to show the world the reality of warfare, now the subject of a new documentary film: “Hondros.”
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/a-new-documentary-honors-the-work-and-life-of-photojournalist-chris-hondros/554966/
Conflict photographer Chris Hondros, working for Getty Images, covered major events from the attacks of September 11 through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the civil war in Liberia, and the chaos of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya. Hondros was killed while on assignment in Libya in 2011 in an attack that also took the life of photojournalist Tim Hetherington. The attack took place while they were covering the armed uprising against the government of Muammar Qaddafi. Released over the weekend and available today online is a new documentary film titled Hondros, directed by Chris’s friend Greg Campbell, and executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis. The powerful photographs that Hondros made speak volumes about our era, and many belong in history books. The relationships that Hondros made throughout his lifetime speak even louder, leaving an amazing legacy that—along with his images—is examined in this film. Below, a handful of photos by and of Chris Hondros, who risked and then tragically lost his life to show the world the reality of warfare.
“The end of war does not mean peace. It is simply the end of death and destruction. Every story of war includes a chapter that almost always goes untold – the story of the aftermath,which day by day becomes the prologue of the future.” – Sara Terry / Fou
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/02/sara-terry-and-teun-van-der-heijden-war-is-only-half-the-story-ten-years-of-the-aftermath-project/
The amazing Sara Terry has been a guiding light and incredible supporter of compelling visual story telling over the years, reminding us that the effects of war are long reaching and devastating. In 2006, she created The Aftermath Project, a non-profit organization “committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace”.
Photographer and director Joey L has been using camera drones to capture aerial photos and videos in conflict zones. Here’s a 21-minute talk he recently
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/02/20/using-drones-shoot-war-zones/
Photographer and director Joey L has been using camera drones to capture aerial photos and videos in conflict zones. Here’s a 21-minute talk he recently gave on his work at Hardwired NYC.
Horst Faas defined a new breed of war photographer.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/opinion/the-man-who-shot-vietnam.html
Horst Faas defined a new breed of war photographer.
Five months ago, a group of pro-ISIS militants took control of parts of the southern Philippine city of Marawi. Today, the fighting is over, but the city is in ruins.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/a-victory-against-isis-in-the-philippines-leaves-a-city-destroyed/543963/
Five months ago, a group of pro-ISIS militants attacked and took control of parts of the southern Philippine city of Marawi. More than 1,000 people have been killed in the siege that has raged since then, as Philippine government troops waged war against the pro-ISIS occupiers—local terrorist groups called the Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf. Airstrikes and thousands of government troops involved in street battles took an enormous toll on the city as well, damaging or destroying hundreds of houses, mosques, and other buildings. After the deaths of two of the militant leaders, President Rodrigo Duterte declared the fighting over last week, and said that Marawi City had been liberated. Today, some of the 400,000 displaced residents are being allowed to return to parts of their war-ravaged city.
Giles Duley, one of the world’s leading documentary and humanitarian photographers, is working on a new project titled Legacy of War. Learn what he thinks
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/10/20/art-storytelling-war-photographer-giles-duley/
Giles Duley, one of the world’s leading documentary and humanitarian photographers, is working on a new project titled Legacy of War. Learn what he thinks it means to tell a story in this inspiring 7-minute interview as part of Ilford Photo‘s new “Ilford Inspires” video series.
A proof-of-concept study of what they tell us about our understanding of war
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/american-wars-in-the-photobook-75b576dc328f
I want to attempt to come to conclusions about both the way photographers described war and how underlying larger professional and societal trends influenced the description. Needless to say, these two aspects are not independent at all. Photographers are embedded in societies. However much they might try, they can never escape the restrictions put upon them. They might fully embrace them, fight them, or engage in a combination of both. This then feeds back into the societies, which might change their thinking around wars based on what photographs tell them. It’s an imperfect feedback loop, whose imperfections are frequently being discussed by both photographers and society. Both tend to voice their dismay about war imagery not having enough power and/or impact to dissuade the starting of yet another war (by the same society having such conversations).
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Photographer Christian Werner and reporter Fritz Schaap drove the route in Syria that took them through the three largest cities, Aleppo, Latakia and Homs.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/07/18/the-road-through-syria/
“We wanted to understand who is really ruling the country now, to see if there will be a chance of reconciliation in the close future,” photographer Christian Werner told In Sight. He and reporter Fritz Schaap drove the route in Syria that took them through the three largest cities, Aleppo, Latakia and Homs. In a two-part essay for Der Spiegel, Schapp described part of their route, which Werner’s photos echo. “Burned-out military vehicles and buses line the route while unexploded missiles jut from the brown, barren soil like cactuses.”