Category: War

  • Living in War-Torn Syria – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    Living in War-Torn Syria For more than three years now, Syrians have endured the loss and hardship caused by a protracted civil war. Syrian government forces are fighting several rebel groups. Smaller rebel groups are fighting each other, and just about everyone in the region is via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/11/living-in-war-torn-syria/100857/ Battles and attacks continue across…

  • Freelance War Photographers: On Their Own in Danger Zones – American Journalism Review

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    Freelance War Photographers: On Their Own in Danger Zones – American Journalism Review Are American news organizations exploiting freelance war photographers? via American Journalism Review: http://ajr.org/2014/11/18/freelance-war-photographers-danger-zones/ As American news organizations have slashed their budgets for foreign news, freelance photographers have picked up the slack, assuming the growing dangers on their own — often for little…

  • The Images that Moved them Most: Photographers on America’s Veterans – LightBox

    The Images that Moved them Most: Photographers on America’s Veterans – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/11/veterans-images-that-moved-them-most/#1 LightBox asked 26 documentary photographers who have covered conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to describe which of their own photographs of veterans had a deep impact on their lives or moved them in a significant way.

  • Life After War: James Nachtwey’s Photographs From Walter Reed – LightBox

    Life After War: James Nachtwey’s Photographs From Walter Reed – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/06/james-nachtwey-walter-reed-veterans/#1 Last week, TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey visited the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington D.C. to photograph combat veterans and wounded soldiers recovering at the facility.

  • Guillermo Cervera: A 300 Mile Conversation About War | American Photo

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    Guillermo Cervera: A 300 Mile Conversation About War Coinciding with his first solo exhibition in New York, the combat photographer stars in Sebastian Junger’s latest HBO documentary, The Last Patrol

  • ‘A Form of Love’ Exhibition Honors The War Reporters and Photographers Who Risk Their Lives in Conflict Zones – Feature Shoot

    ‘A Form of Love’ Exhibition Honors The War Reporters and Photographers Who Risk Their Lives in Conflict Zones – Feature Shoot

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    ‘A Form of Love’ Exhibition Honors The War Reporters and Photographers Who Risk Their Lives in Conflict Zones – Feature Shoot South Vietnam, April 1968: Ammunition airlift during the relief of Khe Sanh. © Larry Burrows / Time Inc. The Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, 2009: The Korengal Valley was widely considered one of… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/10/form-love/…

  • Christoph Bangert, War Porn – The Eye of Photography

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    Christoph Bangert, War Porn My apartment is both full of books and people passing through it. Not one of them has flipped open Christoph Bangert’s War Porn without slamming it closed with a shudder. War Porn is not made to be flipped through absentmindedly. Its format and raw cardboard cover make it an unappealing coffee table…

  • A black flag torn down – Correspondent

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/a-flurry-of-bombs-over-kobane A flurry of bombs rain from the sky onto the hill. The sound is deafening and the hill is obscured by clouds of black smoke. The jihadists respond by firing heavy weapons. We don’t know who they are targeting but it’s too risky to remain perched on the roof, so we…

  • Watching the Kobane battle from ‘media hill’ – Correspondent

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/watching-the-kobane-battle-from-media-hill The hill offered a grandstand, if sometimes surreal, view of the bitter fighting between the Islamic State group (IS) militants and Kurdish fighters for Syrian town Kobane which is just a handful of kilometres away from the border. Members of the press, joined by crowds of Kurdish spectators from all around…

  • The Battle for Donetsk – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    The Battle for Donetsk via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/10/the-battle-for-donetsk/100831/ For six months now, battles have taken place in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels, part of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic.

  • The Battle for Kobani – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    The Battle for Kobani via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/10/the-battle-for-kobani/100828/ some of these refugees and fellow Kurds from southern Turkey have gathered on the border to watch the battles in Kobani through binoculars and cameras. Some Kurdish forces remain in the city, defending against invading militants, supported by Western aircraft and missiles, while ISIS continues to attack…

  • Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same

    Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same

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    Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same A decade after the death of Eddie Adams, does photojournalism risk being supplanted by propaganda or fabricated images? via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/eddie-adams-ten-years-on-and-war-will-never-be-the-same/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 Maybe our profession and our leaders have failed to protect and preserve the critical role independent war photography plays in our…

  • This War Photographer Embedded Himself in a Video Game – LightBox

    This War Photographer Embedded Himself in a Video Game – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/15/war-photographer-video-game/#1 The Last of Us Remastered is a post-apocalyptic video game released earlier this year on PlayStation 4 with an in-game Photo Mode, which freezes the game and lets players shoot, edit and share photographs of their achievements. TIME assigned conflict photographer Ashley Gilbertson…

  • Meet the Photographers on Central African Republic’s Front Lines – LightBox

    Meet the Photographers on Central African Republic’s Front Lines – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/04/central-african-republic-photographers/#1 Photographers William Daniels, Pierre Terdjman and Michaël Zumstein share the same ambition: to go back to Central African Republic (CAR) to continue the work they started in late 2013 and early 2014 when the country’s ethnic, religious and political divisions led…

  • NATO: Russian Soldiers Are Now in Ukraine – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    NATO: Russian Soldiers Are Now in Ukraine via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/08/nato-russian-soldiers-operating-in-ukraine/100800/ Earlier today, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko accused Russian troops of entering Ukraine, and NATO issued a statement saying that they were tracking well over 1,000 Russian combat soldiers operating heavy weaponry within Ukraine’s borders

  • The War Photo No One Would Publish – The Atlantic

    The War Photo No One Would Publish – The Atlantic

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    The War Photo No One Would Publish When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/ When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way…

  • Gaza After the Bombardment – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    Gaza After the Bombardment via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/08/gaza-after-the-bombardment/100789/ With the increased presence of large-scale media conglomerates and online news forums, the newspaper industry has taken a disastrous hit, yet over half of American citizens remain unaware of the trials now facing our trusted journalists and photographers. For Deadline, photographer Will Steacy confronts the brutal truth…

  • Looking for the Enduring Photo in Gaza

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    Looking for the Enduring Photo in Gaza Sometimes people assume that you can have access to everything, that you can see everything. But the fighters are virtually invisible to us. What we do as photographers is document what we can to show that side of the war

  • A reporter explains what it’s like being trapped in the Gaza propaganda war – The Washington Post

    A reporter explains what it’s like being trapped in the Gaza propaganda war – The Washington Post

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    A reporter explains what it’s like being trapped in the Gaza propaganda war Each side has its own spin machine. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/04/a-reporter-explains-what-its-like-being-trapped-in-the-gaza-propaganda-war/ In virtually every conflict, each side tries to manipulate foreign  journalists into covering its grievances, to look at the violence and the destruction through its lens. But Israelis and Palestinians take…

  • The Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1979 – 1989 – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    The Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1979 – 1989 via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/08/the-soviet-war-in-afghanistan-1979-1989/100786/ Here’s something that will blow your mind: scientists have figured out how to extract audio from images captured with a camera