Category: War

  • Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012 – Interview with Stephen Dupont | LensCulture

    Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012 – Interview with Stephen Dupont | LensCulture

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    Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012 – Interview with Stephen Dupont | LensCulture “Photography is the closest thing I know to exploring the unknown; we’re explorers of light aren’t we?” Words of wisdom, encouragement and inspiration from one of the great photojournalistic witnesses of the past two decades via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/stephen-dupont-generation-ak-the-afghanistan-wars-1993-2012 Over the past two…

  • Interview: Timothy Eastman on Photographing Conflict in the Ukraine | American Photo

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    Interview: Timothy Eastman on Photographing Conflict in the Ukraine “I’m interested in the effects war has on people”

  • A Teenage Photographer Witnessing Syria’s War – The New York Times

    A Teenage Photographer Witnessing Syria’s War – The New York Times

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    A Teenage Photographer Witnessing Syria’s War The flood of Kurdish refugees into Turkey compelled a young photographer to ditch school and travel to the border with Syria, where he documented Kurdish fighters clashing with the Islamic State. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/furkan-temir-turkish-witness-to-syrias-war/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 The Turkish photographer Furkan Temir was still a teenager as he watched his country’s…

  • A War Photographer Talks About the Demands of Documenting Conflict | VICE | United States

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    A War Photographer Talks About the Demands of Documenting Conflict In April of 2011, a bombing in Libya killed photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, and injured Brown. This painful experience is an integral part of his new book, ‘Libyan Sugar.’ via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/libyan-sugar-michael-christopher-brown-magnum-photo Michael Christopher Brown’s new book, Libyan Sugar, is about the Libyan…

  • Alissa Rubin, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Reports From the Front Lines – The New York Times

    Alissa Rubin, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Reports From the Front Lines – The New York Times

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    Alissa Rubin, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Reports From the Front Lines Ms. Rubin has spent much of her career covering Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/business/media/alissa-rubin-pulitzer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 A foreign correspondent for nearly three decades, Alissa Rubin is known for descending deep into some of the world’s scariest conflicts and returning with rare, often poignant glimpses into…

  • Operation Iraqi Truth: New Documentary Reveals Why War Is Hell | Rolling Stone

    Operation Iraqi Truth: New Documentary Reveals Why War Is Hell | Rolling Stone

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    Reporter’s Iraqi Hell Revealed in New Documentary Michael Ware spent seven harrowing years covering the Iraq War – and he has the scars to prove it via Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/operation-iraqi-truth-new-documentary-reveals-why-war-is-hell-20160325 Michael Ware spent seven harrowing years covering the Iraq War – and he has the scars to prove it

  • The Soldiers Who Photographed the Vietnam War

    The Soldiers Who Photographed the Vietnam War

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    The Soldiers Who Photographed the Vietnam War Here’s a 3-minute segment that recently aired on CBS This Morning about the soldier photographers who risked their lives on the front line to document the via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/03/23/soldiers-photographed-vietnam-war/ Here’s a 3-minute segment that recently aired on CBS This Morning about the soldier photographers who risked their lives…

  • Iranian war photographers: what makes them click – CSMonitor.com

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    Iranian war photographers: what makes them click To get to the front lines of Iran’s conflicts in Syria and Iraq, war photographers must overcome the fact that hardly anyone wants them there. via The Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2016/0316/Iranian-war-photographers-what-makes-them-click To get to the front lines of Iran’s conflicts in Syria and Iraq, war photographers must overcome…

  • See Images of the Unknown War Underway in Southeast Turkey | TIME

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    See Images of the Unknown War Underway in Southeast Turkey The photographer Tommaso Protti documents the conflict you haven’t heard of via Time: http://time.com/4225315/southeast-turkey-war-kurds-pkk/ The photographer Tommaso Protti documents the conflict you haven’t heard of

  • How to do conflict photography – The Leica Camera Blog

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    How to do conflict photography A look inside the Conflict Photography Workshop with Andrew Renneisen

  • Covering Syria, ‘All of Us Find Ourselves Taking on the Trauma’ – The New York Times

    Covering Syria, ‘All of Us Find Ourselves Taking on the Trauma’ – The New York Times

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    Covering Syria, ‘All of Us Find Ourselves Taking on the Trauma’ Anne Barnard, The Times’s Beirut bureau chief, and Hwaida Saad, a bureau reporter and news assistant, answered readers’ questions about Syria on Reddit. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/world/middleeast/how-times-journalists-cover-the-war-in-syria.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 What misconceptions do you see in the West about the war in Syria? How has the way you gather…

  • Searching for Honesty in Ukraine’s Murky War – Photographs and text by Maks Levin | LensCulture

    Searching for Honesty in Ukraine’s Murky War – Photographs and text by Maks Levin | LensCulture

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    Searching for Honesty in Ukraine’s Murky War – Photographs and text by Maks Levin | LensCulture A war-battered but resolutely committed photographer offers truthful, soul-searching thoughts on the meaning of photojournalism via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/maks-levin-searching-for-honesty-in-ukraine-s-murky-war#slide-2 This commitment to a nuanced moral high ground has its costs. In Levin’s eyes, “I can say that we are losing…

  • War Photographers Need Other Older, Wiser War Photographers — Vantage — Medium

    War Photographers Need Other Older, Wiser War Photographers — Vantage — Medium

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    War Photographers Need Other Older, Wiser War Photographers Bryan Denton has been making conflict images for a decade. He’s still alive. That’s down, in part, to the advice of experienced… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/war-photographers-need-other-older-wiser-war-photographers-487a83e9f776#.4tmb9p4dr Bryan Denton has been making conflict images for a decade. He is still alive. Thats down to some luck and a lot…

  • A Glimpse Into the Everyday of a Ukrainian Battalion | TIME

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    A View From Ukraine’s Front Lines Evgeny Maloletka is one of TIME’s 2015 Eddie Adams Workshop award recipients via Time: http://time.com/4170466/a-glimpse-into-the-everyday-of-a-ukrainian-battalion/ For photojournalist Evgeniy Maloletka, the fallout of the Ukrainian revolution hits close to home — Berdyansk city in southeast Ukraine, to be exact. As the war zone expands, inching closer to his hometown, he…

  • Yemen’s Unending Chaos – The Atlantic

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    Yemen’s Unending Chaos For nearly a year now, Yemen has been torn by a ferocious war pitting rebels against the government, militias against each other, Al Qaeda and ISIS against everybody, a Saudi-led coalition against Iranian-backed forces, and a desperate civilian populace c via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/yemens-unending-chaos/423327/ For nearly a year now, Yemen has been…

  • A Year of Syria’s War Seen Through the Lens of Bassam Khabieh – The Atlantic

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    A Year of Syria’s War Seen Through the Lens of Bassam Khabieh Several years ago, Bassam Khabieh was an IT administrator working in Damascus, Syria, near his hometown of Douma. Then, the Syrian war began. Khabieh soon picked up a camera and returned to Douma to document the effects of years of shelling and urban…

  • Deconstructing the Visual Clichés of War Photography | American Photo

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    Deconstructing the Visual Clichés of War Photography The title of David Shields’ photobook War Is Beautiful is both ironic and apt: For the most part these are attractive photographs; they happen to be made in war zones. “The pictures look monumental, they look majestic, they look problematically gorgeous,” Shields says. And therein lies the rub.

  • Bearing Witness to the Victims of Yemen’s ‘Forgotten War’ | TIME

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    Bearing Witness to the Victims of Yemen’s ‘Forgotten War’ A coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia launched a campaign of airstrikes on Yemen via Time: http://time.com/4073796/yemen-warzone-houthi-refugee-camp-2/ A coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia launched a campaign of airstrikes on Yemen

  • ‘They were torturing to kill’: inside Syria’s death machine | Garance le Caisne | World news | The Guardian

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    ‘They were torturing to kill’: inside Syria’s death machine | Garance le Caisne The long read: Caesar, the Syrian military photographer who smuggled shocking evidence of torture out of Assad’s dungeons, tells his story for the first time via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/they-were-torturing-to-kill-inside-syrias-death-machine-caesar#img-1 or two years, between 2011 and 2013, the former Syrian military photographer known…

  • New documentary film offers a photographer’s focus on the Afghan war | Ottawa Citizen

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    New documentary film offers a photographer’s focus on the Afghan war For photojournalist Louie Palu, his five years covering the Afghanistan conflict have marked him for life. While the Toronto native was taking hundreds of pictures for news outlets, he was keeping … via Ottawa Citizen: http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/movies/new-documentary-film-brings-a-photographers-focus-on-the-afghanistan-mission For photojournalist Louie Palu, his five years covering the…