Category: War

  • Testament: Remembering Chris Hondros’ Iconic Photograph From Iraq

    Testament: Remembering Chris Hondros’ Iconic Photograph From Iraq

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/20/remembering-chris-hondros/ It has been three years since photographer Chris Hondros was killed, along with fellow photojournalist Tim Hetherington, during a firefight in Misrata, Libya, on April 20th 2011. With the recent release of Testament — a moving collection of Hondros’ photographs and writing…

  • War zone photographers a breed apart

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    Link: PoynterVision: War zone photographers a breed apart | Poynter. “Where once reporters and photographers were seen as the impartial eyes and ears of crucial information, today they are often targets,” said Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt.

  • Managing chaos in the Central African Republic

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Managing-chaos-in-the-Central-African-Republic So, the next day, we find out our car is in a camp opposite the police school. Bienvenu is waiting outside. I call back the political coordinator and threaten to bring out our big guns: if the car isn’t given back to us within an hour, along with the rest of…

  • On the Russian Military Using Unmarked Uniforms

    On the Russian Military Using Unmarked Uniforms

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    On the Russian Military Using Unmarked Uniforms – Reading The Pictures If soldiers are not wearing insignia, they are partially out of uniform; if they are partially out of uniform, they are that much closer to being private militias, gangs, or thugs. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/03/robert-hariman-on-the-russian-military-using-unmarked-uniforms/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 Of all the photographs to come out of…

  • Ashley Gilbertson on RISK and War Photography

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    Link: SPAN 2014: Ashley Gilbertson on RISK and War Photography | PS122.TV | As part of a larger 6-hour round robin style conversation, Photographer Ashley Gilbertson spoke on RISK and war photography

  • In a spiral of violence

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    In a spiral of violence Siegfried Modola photographs the violence occuring in the Central African Republic. via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/02/14/in-a-spiral-of-violence/ I landed in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, for what was going to be the most intense four weeks of my career. I would be covering a sectarian conflict that has left thousands dead…

  • After Desert Storm: Sylvia Plachy’s Photographs of the First Iraq War

    After Desert Storm: Sylvia Plachy’s Photographs of the First Iraq War

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    After Desert Storm via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/01/kuwait-desert-storm-iraq-war-photography.html#slide_ss_0=1 In a dispatch for Creative Time Reports today, Sylvia Plachy recalls working in Kuwait in 1991, in the aftermath of the first Iraq War. She came to the country as a staff photographer for the Village Voice

  • Susan Sontag was right: War photography can anesthetize

    Susan Sontag was right: War photography can anesthetize

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    Susan Sontag was right: War photography can anesthetize A troubling new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art throws into question the medium’s very purpose via Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/05/war_photography_partner/ A troubling new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art throws into question the medium’s very purpose

  • Blood Photography Anyone?

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    Link: Blood Photography Anyone? | Greg Marinovich The late Molhem Barakat is someone whom one might find quite difficult to pigeonhole between these two documenters of conflict, falling somewhere between activist/propagandist and photojournalist.

  • Christians, Muslims Clash in Central African Republic

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    Christians, Muslims Clash in Central African Republic via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/12/christians-muslims-clash-in-central-african-republic/100652/ More than a thousand people in CAR have been killed in the past month alone. Foreign soldiers form the African Union and France have quickly built up a presence, hoping to fend off a feared genocide

  • Photographer Uses Toys to Recreate War Scenes Based On the Drawings of Children in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Israel

    Photographer Uses Toys to Recreate War Scenes Based On the Drawings of Children in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Israel

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    Photographer Uses Toys to Recreate War Scenes Based On the Drawings of Children in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Israel West Hollywood-based photographer Brian McCarty is no stranger to toys; in fact he has been incorporating them into his work for the last 17 years. However in 2011 he came up with a…

  • Syrian War Worsens Ahead of Peace Conference

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    Syrian War Worsens Ahead of Peace Conference via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/12/syrian-war-worsens-ahead-of-peace-conference/100647/ Syria’s civil war is nearly three years old now. It has claimed the lives of more than 120,000 people, forced 9 million to flee their homes, and caused a humanitarian crisis on a record scale

  • Q&A: Robert Nickelsberg on a Distant War

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    Link: Q&A: Robert Nickelsberg on a Distant War | PROOF In his new book, Afghanistan: A Distant War, veteran photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg offers a vivid close-up of the past quarter-century of Afghan history. As a photographer for Time Magazine, Nickelsberg first observed Afghanistan emerge from an eight-year war against the Soviet Union and then descend…

  • The War No Image Could Capture

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  • Remembering A Compassionate War Photographer

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    Remembering A Compassionate War Photographer A few weeks ago the National Geographic lobby was so crowded with young schoolgirls I could barely make it to the elevators. The place was jumping with energy and I asked the ticket takers if the girls were here to see the Women of Vision photography exhi via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/21/remembering-a-compassionate-war-photographer/…

  • Bénédicte Kurzen the myth of the war photographer

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    Link: Bénédicte Kurzen | Photo Raw Magazine Bénédicte Kurzen talked with Photo Raw about the myth or the war photographer at the 2012 Visa pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism.

  • Syria: the shots that shook the world

    Syria: the shots that shook the world

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    Syria: the shots that shook the world Five photographers who have borne witness to Syria’s civil war tell the stories behind their defining images of the conflict via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10400229/Syria-the-shots-that-shook-the-world.html Five photographers who have borne witness to Syria’s civil war tell the stories behind their defining images of the conflict

  • David Dare Parker Talks Shooting In a War Zone

    David Dare Parker Talks Shooting In a War Zone

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    David Dare Parker Talks Shooting In a War Zone David Date Parker has made a name for himself photographing some of the most dangerous places on Earth. The Perth native has travelled through the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Iraq and the multitude of military coups and street protests that plague South… via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/shooting-in-a-war-zone…

  • Tim Page’s Vietnam War

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    Tim Page’s Vietnam War Tim Page arrived in 1965 Vietnam at the tender age of 20 and began a career as a photojournalist that sent him all over the world, including the same jail cell as Jim Morrison. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/vietnam-had-good-food-and-beautiful-women Tim Page is a photojournalist of the old school. He arrived in Saigon, South…

  • Announcing the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013

    Announcing the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013

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    Announcing the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013 Championing Independent Journalism via Frontline Club: http://www.frontlineclub.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-frontline-club-awards-2013/ At a ceremony held at the Frontline Club on 24 October, 2013 and hosted by Jon Snow from Channel 4 News, the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013 were announced. The judging panel – Carlotta Gall, Jon Lee Anderson,…