For more than four years now, Syrians have endured the loss and hardship caused by a protracted civil war. Nearly four million Syrians have fled the country, filling refugee camps in neighboring countries.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/in-syria-four-years-of-war/389781/
Gathered here are images of the ongoing Syrian conflict from just the past six weeks
Scott Anderson is a war correspondent and novelist. He’s written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, and more. “I really feel that what’s at the root of so many wars now, modern wars, unconventional wars, it really just comes down to a
via Longform: http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-135-scott-anderson
“I really feel that what’s at the root of so many wars now, modern wars, unconventional wars, it really just comes down to a bunch of young guys with access to guns coming up with a pretext to rape and murder and pillage and steal from their neighbors.”
The photojournalist Eddie Adams, who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, not only captured the action and chaos but took the time to get up close to the Vietnamese people whenever he could.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/the-vietnam-war-part-iii-hands-of-a-nation/389309/
The photojournalist Eddie Adams, who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, not only captured the action and chaos but took the time to get up close to the Vietnamese people whenever he could. In 1968, he undertook a project called “Hands of a Nation,” taking intimate photos of the hands of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians
Tactically, the 1968 Tet Offensive was a huge loss for the North, but it marked a significant turning point in public opinion and political support, leading to a drawdown of U.S. troop involvement, and eventual withdrawal in 1973.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/the-vietnam-war-part-ii-losses-and-withdrawal/389192/
This photo essay, part two of a three-part series, covers the war years between 1968 and 1975
Fifty years ago, in March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam, the first American combat troops on the ground in a conflict that had been building for decades.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/the-vietnam-war-part-i-early-years-and-escalation/389054/
This photo essay, part one of a three-part series, looks at the earlier stages of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as the growing protest movement, between the years 1962 and 1967
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/syria-turkey-islamic-state-kurds-conflict-a-homecoming-in-kobane#.VRVyfS4js20
I travelled to Kobane a day before Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, and stayed for a week to photograph people returning to their homes, two months after the Kurds recaptured the town from Islamic State fighters
David Douglas Duncan, whom LIFE called “perhaps the best war photographer since Matthew Brady,” is celebrated in a comprehensive new book
via Time: http://time.com/3735936/david-douglas-duncan/
David Douglas Duncan, whom LIFE called “perhaps the best war photographer since Matthew Brady,” is celebrated in a comprehensive new book
Things have the longest memories of all; beneath their stillness, they are alive with the terrors they have witnessed.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/magazine/object-lesson.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
So epic and cinematic were the photographs from the Maidan that it took some effort to remember that they were first and foremost news images, unstaged depictions of real, ongoing human suffering.
Stefano De Luigi documents two communities that have been fighting for centuries
via Time: http://time.com/3694192/in-tripoli-one-street-brings-the-syrian-war-home/
On Syria Street in Tripoli, Lebanon, two communities face off
“When you’re young, you have this sense of invincibility, “ says Stacy Pearsall. “You can hear the gunshots, but they can’t touch you.“ Pearsall is a former Air Force Combat Photojournalist who spent much of her storied ten-year Air Force career assigned to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron in Charleston South Carolina
In Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport has been reduced from a modern transportation hub to piles of scorched rubble in less than a year of warfare.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/a-year-of-war-completely-destroyed-the-donetsk-airport/386204/
This week, as a cease-fire held, rebels (now in control of the ruins) brought Ukrainian war prisoners to the airport to recover bodies of their fellow troops from the rubble, and photojournalists were able to come along and document the scene
“I sensed I was burning out, and feared my readers were, too. How many videos of war and suffering can a person handle in a day?” Carvin wrote.
A photographer went in search of his roots and ended up stumbling into the opening skirmishes of a new Cold War
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/accidentally-photographing-the-war-in-ukraine-ae140f02664b
A photographer went in search of his roots and ended up stumbling into the opening skirmishes of a new Cold War
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/donetsk-shelling#.VNDaGEL_un0
We stop. The situation is tense, we know we won’t be able to stay here long. I head to find local people to interview while Dominique and the video reporter take pictures of the bodies in the street and the damaged trolleybus. The strike, I am told, took place half an hour earlier. At the gate to a nearby building, I approach a group of locals – who accuse the media of concealing the truth, a charge often heard here. I tell one of them I am here to describe what I see. “Come inside then,” he says, inviting me up into his family apartment.
A new exhibition questions familiar images of suffering around the world to broaden our notions of beauty, brutality and civil rights
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/02/-sp-human-rights-human-wrongs-cliches-conflict-photography
A new exhibition questions familiar images of suffering around the world to broaden our notions of beauty, brutality and civil rights
A conflict photographer’s raw and emotional photographs of civil conflict that continues to envelop civilians and soldiers in east Ukraine.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/02/02/documenting-the-raging-civil-conflict-on-the-front-lines-in-donetsk-ukraine/
Experienced conflict photographer Manu Brabo has been embedded in Ukraine covering the conflict in and around Donetsk for several weeks.
French photographer William Daniels discusses his time covering the conflict
via Time: http://time.com/3640525/central-african-republic-conflict-anti-balaka-seleka/
One photographer’s year-long look at the unending cycle of death and uncertainty in a country mostly neglected by the international community
I wake to multiple explosions outside my makeshift tent.
“IDF! IDF!”
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/taking-heavy-fire-at-the-conflict-photography-workshop-e1554494e45
Luckily the mortars aren’t real, just large firecrackers thrown by our instructors: Photojournalists with decades of combat experience and an expert military trainer. It is the last day of our 3-day field simulation at the Conflict Photography Workshops, an intense week of training and instruction culminating in this battlefield scenario.
Andy Rocchelli was killed while photographing the Ukrainian conflict in May. His last photos show his maturity and talent, colleagues say.
via CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/30/world/cnnphotos-andy-rocchelli-last-images/
Described by his Cesura colleagues as young, idealistic and very passionate, Andy Rocchelli lived and breathed photography and storytelling. His last photographs, some still stored in his camera, project the maturity of a young man who, by then, had roamed confidently in dangerous war scenarios.
Paul Mason: People who believe that showing violent images from conflict zones will deter killing are mistaken
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/23/horrific-pictures-of-dead-bodies-wont-stop-wars
People who believe that showing violent images from conflict zones will deter killing are mistaken