Category: War

  • Episode 78: Svet Jacqueline (Conflict Photography) – A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone

    Link: https://10fps.net/2023/10/24/episode-78-svet-jacqueline-conflict-photography/ Svet Jacqueline joins the podcast this week remotely from Ukraine, where she covers social and humanitarian issues

  • How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News | The New Yorker

    How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News | The New Yorker

    How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News The Israel-Hamas war has displayed with fresh urgency the perils of relying on our feeds for updates about events unfolding in real time. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-social-media-abdicated-responsibility-for-the-news An “algorithmically driven fog of war” is how one journalist described the deluge of disinformation and mislabelled footage on…

  • ‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict | Photography | The Guardian

    ‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict The esteemed photographer has spend more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/26/corinne-dufka-war-photographer-book As the acclaimed American war photographer Corinne Dufka sorted through the pictures and negatives for her new book,…

  • Photographer Details the Horror and Hope of Documenting the War in Ukraine | PetaPixel

    Photographer Details the Horror and Hope of Documenting the War in Ukraine | PetaPixel

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    Photographer Details the Horror and Hope of Documenting the War in Ukraine He came back to his home country to document the war. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/21/photographer-details-the-horror-and-hope-of-documenting-the-war-in-ukraine/ Roman Pilpey, who is Ukrainian himself, has traveled the world and was not in the country when Putin’s troops crossed the border but he felt compelled to come back…

  • Art and Aid | Mark Neville

    Art and Aid | Mark Neville

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    Art and Aid, Postcard from Ukraine | Mark Neville As a British artist living and working in Ukraine, Mark Neville shares an account of his experiences in a country that has now been under siege for more than 500 days. Known for his long-term, immersive documentary projects in various places, from Glasgow via 1000 Words:…

  • Ukraine: A War Crime — Blind Magazine

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    Ukraine: A War Crime — Blind Magazine Ukraine: A War Crime, brings together the work of 93 photographers who covered the first year of the War in Ukraine. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/stories/ukraine-a-war-crime/ The book Ukraine: A War Crime brings together the work of 93 photographers who covered the first year of the war in Ukraine,…

  • ‘War criminals: whatever you do, we’ll record it’: the ‘merciless’ Ukrainian film about Mariupol | Ukraine | The Guardian

    ‘War criminals: whatever you do, we’ll record it’: the ‘merciless’ Ukrainian film about Mariupol 20 Days in Mariupol by Mstyslav Chernov traces the Russian siege of the port in harrowing detail. Here, he discusses his documentary with a fellow war reporter via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/11/ukrainian-film-20-days-in-mariupol-mstyslav-chernov-documentary It is a brave, visceral, merciless masterpiece. I’ll stake a…

  • Moises Saman documents the “competing narratives” of the Iraq war

    Moises Saman documents the “competing narratives” of the Iraq war

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    Moises Saman documents the “competing narratives” of the Iraq war Moises Saman’s new book brings together his original imagery with materials and military documents to reflect on the subjective nature of portraying conflict via Creative Review: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/moises-saman-iraq-war-photography/ The photojournalist’s new book brings together his original imagery with materials and military documents to reflect on the…

  • After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace

    After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace

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    After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the conflict in Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, reflects on the brutal realities of war. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/03/after-witnessing-war-in-ukraine-a-photojournalist-fights-for-peace/ “Humankind repeats the same mistakes over and over again,” Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the war in Ukraine from…

  • After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace

    After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace

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    After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the conflict in Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, reflects on the brutal realities of war. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/03/after-witnessing-war-in-ukraine-a-photojournalist-fights-for-peace/ “Humankind repeats the same mistakes over and over again,” Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the war in Ukraine from…

  • Irish war photographer on 15 years in conflict zones: “There are things that are just too much or to | Business Post

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    Ireland’s leading war photographer on 15 years covering conflict: ‘There are things that are just too much to capture’ ‘No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss’ is the first Italian exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett. Supported and staged by fashion house Max Mara founder Achille Maramotti’s Collezione Maramotti, he describes trying to…

  • The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer | The New Yorker

    The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer | The New Yorker

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    The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer Maksym Levin started documenting war “to become famous.” After seeing conflict up close, his motivations shifted. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-life-and-death-of-a-ukrainian-photographer According to an investigation by Reporters Without Borders, the men were “undoubtedly executed in cold blood, possibly after being tortured.” At the site of the killing,…

  • New York Times Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget – The New York Times

    New York Times Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget – The New York Times

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    Our Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget In a year of war, New York Times photographers have reported from the front line, from cities and villages and in the footsteps of refugees. These pictures stayed with them. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-anniversary-photos.html Here, instead, 14 photographers who have worked in Ukraine for The Times each…

  • The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone

    The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone

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    The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone Thirty years after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous Arkan’s Tigers have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes. Link: https://investigation.rollingstone.com/dj-photo-war-crimes-bosnia/ A young American photographer watched much of it happen. Ron Haviv met the Tigers in Croatia, where he…

  • Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? – The New York Times

    Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? – The New York Times

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    Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? In the decades between Robert Capa and Lynsey Addario, our image of battle lost its aura of nobility. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/arts/design/war-photography-addario-capa-icp-sva.html Many Americans no longer regard war as a righteous undertaking — and war photography has played a part in changing our perspective. Pictures in Korea (notably those of…

  • The Personal Wars of Ukraine’s Women — Blind Magazine

    The Personal Wars of Ukraine’s Women — Blind Magazine

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    The Personal Wars of Ukraine’s Women — Blind Magazine Photographer Hailey Sadler writes about her encounters with Ukrainian women during the war that transfigured their country. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/the-personal-wars-of-ukraines-women/ Photographer Hailey Sadler writes about her encounters with Ukrainian women during the war that transfigured their country.

  • Visa pour l’Image in the Shadow of Ukraine — Blind Magazine

    Visa pour l’Image in the Shadow of Ukraine — Blind Magazine

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    Visa pour l’Image in the Shadow of Ukraine — Blind Magazine For thirty-four years, the international festival of photojournalism “Visa pour l’Image,” in Perpignan, has reflected the world’s upheavals. Ukraine is necessarily at the forefront of this 2022 reiteration, which is also attentive to other crises and whic via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/visa-pour-limage-in-the-shadow-of-ukraine/ For thirty-four years,…

  • “Beware the Ides of March” Julius Caesar by Jérôme Sessini – burn magazine

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    “Beware the Ides of March” Julius Caesar by Jérôme Sessini “Beware the Ides of March” Julius Caesar Photographs and text y Jérôme Sessini In 2014 until 2017, I worked in the Russian-speaking regions of Donbass, in Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol… Russia was cle… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/09/beware-the-ides-of-march-julius-caesar-by-jerome-sessini/ In 2014 until 2017, I worked in the Russian-speaking regions…

  • Photographer Lynsey Addario Reflects on Two Decades of Covering Wars and Global Crises | Vanity Fair

    Photographer Lynsey Addario Reflects on Two Decades of Covering Wars and Global Crises | Vanity Fair

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    “Constantly in Motion”: Photographer Lynsey Addario Reflects on Two Decades of Covering Wars and Global Crises Vanity Fair caught up with Addario ahead of her career-spanning SVA exhibition, which features work documenting “very intense and historical moments” in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and Ukraine. via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/photographer-lynsey-addario-two-decades-covering-wars-global-crises Vanity Fair caught up…

  • How to Stay Safe While Photographing the War in Ukraine | PetaPixel

    How to Stay Safe While Photographing the War in Ukraine | PetaPixel

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    How to Stay Safe While Photographing the War in Ukraine Practical advice for photographers covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine to stay safe and healthy while doing war photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/31/how-to-stay-safe-while-photographing-the-war-in-ukraine/ “I’d seen so many in Ukraine, in Kyiv without helmet and vest,” Fadek tells PetaPixel. “I saw journalists running around [without personal protective…