Category: War

  • Inside the Daring Life of a Female War Photographer

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    Inside the Daring Life of a Forgotten Female War Photographer Dickey Chapelle was one of history’s most fearless conflict journalists—and the first American woman to die on the job. via Culture: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture-exploration/2018/08/world-photography-day-dickey-chapelle-female-war-photographer-combat-vietnam/ Dickey Chapelle was one of history’s most fearless conflict journalists—and the first American woman to die on the job.

  • America’s War Narrative Focuses on Its Soldiers. Afghans and Iraqis Are Brushed Aside.

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    America’s War Narrative Focuses on Its Soldiers. Afghans and Iraqis Are Brushed Aside. 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…

  • Forgotten Images of the Vietnam War Made for the Americans Who Fought In It – The New York Times

    Forgotten Images of the Vietnam War Made for the Americans Who Fought In It – The New York Times

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    Forgotten Images of the Vietnam War Made for the Americans Who Fought In It 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…

  • Egypt: Legacy of Rabaa Massacre 5 Years Later | Time

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    Five Years Ago, I Witnessed a Massacre. Here’s How It Changed Me 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…

  • I Could Have Been One of the Journalists Killed in Kabul – The New York Times

    I Could Have Been One of the Journalists Killed in Kabul – The New York Times

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    I Could Have Been One of the Journalists Killed in Kabul 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…

  • I Walked Into Iraq – Vantage – Medium

    I Walked Into Iraq – Vantage – Medium

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    I Walked Into Iraq 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…

  • Working around reductionism in Afghanistan – Re-Picture – Medium

    Working around reductionism in Afghanistan – Re-Picture – Medium

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    Working around reductionism in Afghanistan 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.

  • What It’s Like to Be a Freelance War Photographer – VICE

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    What It’s 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. 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.

  • Sketching Cruelty and Finding Humanity Beside Syria’s ‘Waterfall of Blood’ – The New York Times

    Sketching Cruelty and Finding Humanity Beside Syria’s ‘Waterfall of Blood’ – The New York Times

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    Sketching Cruelty and Finding Humanity Beside Syria’s ‘Waterfall of Blood’ 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 &…

  • War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin – Texas Monthly

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    War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin 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…

  • The Siege of Eastern Ghouta and Seven Years of War in Syria – The Atlantic

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    Photos: Seven Years of War in Syria 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…

  • A New Documentary Honors the Work and Life of Photojournalist Chris Hondros – The Atlantic

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    A New Documentary Honors the Work and Life of Photojournalist Chris Hondros 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, …

  • Sara Terry and Teun Van Der HEIJDEN: WAR IS ONLY HALF THE STORY, TEN YEARS OF THE AFTERMATH PROJECT | LENSCRATCH

    Sara Terry and Teun Van Der HEIJDEN: WAR IS ONLY HALF THE STORY, TEN YEARS OF THE AFTERMATH PROJECT | LENSCRATCH

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    Sara Terry and Teun Van Der Heijden: War is Only Half the Story, Ten Years of the Aftermath Project “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…

  • Using Drones to Shoot War Zones

    Using Drones to Shoot War Zones

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    Using Drones to 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 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…

  • The Man Who Shot Vietnam – The New York Times

    The Man Who Shot Vietnam – The New York Times

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    Opinion | The Man Who Shot Vietnam 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.

  • A Victory Against ISIS in the Philippines Leaves a City Destroyed – The Atlantic

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    A Victory Against ISIS in the Philippines Leaves a City Destroyed 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…

  • War Photographer Giles Duley Tells the Story of War’s Long-Term Impact

    War Photographer Giles Duley Tells the Story of War’s Long-Term Impact

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    War Photographer Giles Duley Tells the Story of War’s Long-Term Impact 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…

  • American wars in the photobook – Witness

    American wars in the photobook – Witness

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    American wars in the photobook 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…

  • Jean Charles Gutner, The Angola Era – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/08/article/159964309/jean-charles-gutner-the-angola-era/”] Jean Charles Gutner, The Angola Era – The Eye of Photography The work of remembrance may be difficult, and sometimes painful. Twenty years have passed since these photographs, now published in book form, were taken in Angola, a country in Southern Africa and the territory of an extended Cold War fought here since…

  • Burned-out buses, unexploded missiles: a photographer on the road through Syria. – The Washington Post

    Burned-out buses, unexploded missiles: a photographer on the road through Syria. – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | Burned-out buses, unexploded missiles: a photographer on the road through Syria. 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…