Category: War

  • At Front Lines, Bearing Witness in Real Time – NYTimes.com

    At Front Lines, Bearing Witness in Real Time – NYTimes.com

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    At Front Lines, Bearing Witness in Real Time We used to witness war in the rearview mirror. But journalists often now deliver what they see via Twitter, before consulting with headquarters, and it has made for more visceral reporting. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/business/media/at-front-lines-bearing-witness-in-real-time.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 My social media feed has taken a bloody turn in the last few weeks…

  • ‘Caught in the Crossfire’: Shocking Photographs from Gaza – LightBox

    ‘Caught in the Crossfire’: Shocking Photographs from Gaza – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/22/gaza-children-deaths-palestine-israel/#1 Italian photographer Alessio Romenzi harbors no illusions that his images of dead civilians—many of them children—caught in the crossfire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip will have an impact on the conflict. But he can’t stay away from the story.

  • Bloody Weekend in Gaza – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    Bloody Weekend in Gaza via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/07/bloody-weekend-in-gaza/100778/ gathered here are photographs of the conflict from just the past few days

  • What’s More Deplorable, the Killing of Journalists Or Hardly Noticing? — BagNews

    What’s More Deplorable, the Killing of Journalists Or Hardly Noticing? — BagNews

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    What’s More Deplorable, the Killing of Journalists Or Hardly Noticing? – Reading The Pictures Journalists have become targets in that many places for that long now that their vulnerability, and ultimately their fungibility, has ceased to even be noteworthy. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/07/whats-more-deplorable-the-killing-of-journalists-or-hardly-noticing/ Given a media vehicle was bombed by the Israelis and the…

  • In Ukraine, A Battle of Words and Images – LightBox

    In Ukraine, A Battle of Words and Images – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/08/ukraine-fake-images-claim/#1 As the conflict in Ukraine continues, another battle rages far from the front lines—a battle between Russian news sites and a group of Kiev-based journalists who say the sites are misusing, even fabricating, news photographs filed from Ukraine.

  • Coming of Age in Combat: Peter van Agtmael’s Disco Night Sept 11 – LightBox

    Coming of Age in Combat: Peter van Agtmael’s Disco Night Sept 11 – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/03/peter-van-agtmael-combat-photo-book/#1 If you’re looking for bang-bang, this might not be your book. There are photographs of soldiers who later ended up KIA, and of Marines swimming in an Afghan canal while a member of the outfit next door is shredded by an…

  • War’s Lingering Requiem in Vietnam

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    War’s Lingering Requiem in Vietnam Unlike the Western photographers, the North Vietnamese photographers were combatants, ordered to stay on the battlefront until victory or death. They developed their film at night in streams using soup bowls, their darkroom a cardboard box. Luong Nghia Dung, the North Vietnamese Robert Capa; Pham Van Khuong, Vo Vanh Quy…

  • Photographers on the Front Lines of the Great War

    Photographers on the Front Lines of the Great War

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    Photographers on the Front Lines of the Great War A century after the start of World War I, the trail blazed – and lessons learned – by pioneering photojournalists on the front lines still resonate. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/photos-world-war-i-images-museums-battle-great-war/ A century after the start of World War I, the trail blazed – and lessons learned…

  • What to do with horrific images from Iraq – Correspondent

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/What-to-do-with-horrific-images-from-Iraq Pictures like these clearly amount to extremist propaganda, so should they have been published? For AFP, the answer is yes — but not without first taking careful precautions to ensure they were not faked. We also avoided publishing those photos depicting gratuitous violence for its own sake.

  • Peter van Agtmael: Disco Night Sept 11. examines the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (PHOTOS).

    Peter van Agtmael: Disco Night Sept 11. examines the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (PHOTOS).

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    Life Through the Eyes of a War Photographer Since he was a child, Peter van Agtmael has been interested in going to war, though he admits he wasn’t sure exactly what he would be doing once he got… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/06/17/peter_van_agtmael_disco_night_sept_11_examines_the_wars_in_afghanistan_and.html Since he was a child, Peter van Agtmael has been interested in going…

  • Iraq’s Current Conflict Foretold

    Iraq’s Current Conflict Foretold

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    Iraq’s Current Conflict Foretold As rebel forces capture Iraqi cities, veteran photojournalists look at the lessons learned and the obstacles that lie ahead for independent coverage in the region. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/current-iraq-conflict-foretold/ The growing instability in Iraq was on the minds of members of the NOOR collective, who were in New York last week…

  • The Trials and Tribulations of Making or Facing Photographs of War | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    The Trials and Tribulations of Making or Facing Photographs of War | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    The Trials and Tribulations of Making or Facing Photographs of War via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/war-photo/ No picture has ever ended a war, and it’s debatable to what extent any photograph has contributed to possibly helping end one.

  • Robert Capa’s Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf | TIME

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    How The Iconic D-Day Photos Were Almost Lost Forever Watch the video that shows how famed photojournalist Robert Capa’s negatives were almost lost via Time: http://time.com/120751/robert-capa-dday-photos/ Two men quickly came and helped him reach cover, one of whom, Riley later recalled, had a camera around his neck. The photographer was Capa, and somewhere between the…

  • City of Devastation: Syrians return to Hellish Scenes in Homs – LightBox

    City of Devastation: Syrians return to Hellish Scenes in Homs – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/05/29/devastation-in-homs/#1 It had taken years, and several attempts each, to get Syrian visas for photographer Yuri Kozyrev and myself. Despite all that waiting, nothing had quite prepared us for what we would encounter in Syria

  • Sebastian Junger’s Self-Financed and Self-Released Film Korengal | A Photo Editor

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    Sebastian Junger’s Self-Financed and Self-Released Film Korengal – A Photo Editor CLICK to purchase tickets a note from Sebastian Junger I’m writing to let you know that my next film, KORENGAL, is about to come out on May 30th in New York. Tim and I had planned to make a follow-up to Restrepo, but a few…

  • Two New Photobooks Illustrate the Value of War Photography – Feature Shoot

    Two New Photobooks Illustrate the Value of War Photography – Feature Shoot

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    Two New Photobooks Illustrate the Value of War Photography – Feature Shoot Marine Cpl. Christopher G. Scherer, 21, was killed by a sniper on July 21, 2007, in Karmah, Iraq. He was from East Northport, New York. His bedroom was photographed in… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/05/two-new-photobooks-challenge-value-bearing-witness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-new-photobooks-challenge-value-bearing-witness While they grew up on opposite sides of the…

  • Look Back, in Danger

    Look Back, in Danger

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    Look Back, in Danger Peter van Agtmael’s new book is a personal look at America’s recent wars, as well as his own struggles to experience and explain conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/look-back-in-danger/?gwh=041AADDAE5AC90A0FA60D1C11BF9EDAE&gwt=pay I had strong beliefs. I believed that journalism, however flawed, was one of the key checks against corruption and power-mongering. I found photography…

  • ‘Hornet’s Nest’: Memorial Day war movie by father and son journalists opens | Poynter.

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    ‘Hornet’s Nest’: Memorial Day war movie by father and son journalists opens The trailer for Mike and Carlos Boettcher’s new movie “The Hornet’s Nest” that opens in theaters nationwide today says right up front the film is “Not based on a true story.” Then a second message appears on the screen, “This is the true…

  • War Photographer Robert Capa and his Coverage of D-day

    War Photographer Robert Capa and his Coverage of D-day

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    War Photographer Robert Capa and his Coverage of D-day John Morris, relives the terrible loss that followed Capa’s extraordinary feat. Marie Brenner reports. via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day Seventy years ago, the great war photographer joined the first slaughterhouse wave of D-day, recording W.W. II’s pivotal battle in 11 historic images of blur and grit. But…

  • Photographing War: Tyler Hicks

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    Link: Photographing War: Tyler Hicks | PROOF Photojournalist Tyler Hicks spoke at the 2014 National Geographic Photography Seminar in January—an annual celebration of photography held at the society’s headquarters in Washington.