Category: War

  • Photographer Yuri Kozyrev on covering conflict

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    Link: Photographer Yuri Kozyrev on covering conflict Since starting out 25 years ago, Russian photojournalist Yuri Kozyrev has documented wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Yuri talks to Tina Remiz about finding new ways of telling stories… via PJL

  • Conflict Photographer’s Best Pictures Are Some of Humanity’s Worst Moments

    Conflict Photographer’s Best Pictures Are Some of Humanity’s Worst Moments

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    Conflict Photographer’s Best Pictures Are Some of Humanity’s Worst Moments Moises Saman is one of the leading conflict photographers of our time. In recent years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Libya. In the August Issue of WIRED, Saman’s photographs and interviews from Aleppo in Syria accompanied Matthieu Aikins via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/09/moises-saman/?viewall=true Moises…

  • One Photographer’s Witness to a Brutal Execution in Syria

    One Photographer’s Witness to a Brutal Execution in Syria

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/12/witness-to-a-syrian-execution-i-saw-a-scene-of-utter-cruelty/#1 TIME obtained the images exclusively from a photographer who was recently in Syria. This decapitation was the last of four executions he documented that day. TIME has agreed not to publish the photographer’s name, to protect him from repercussions when he…

  • Vietnam War Photos That Made a Difference

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    Link: Vietnam War Photos That Made a Difference – NYTimes.com Given the subject matter, that image, by Art Greenspon, might never have made it past the censors of World War II, which was nearly into its third year before Americans first saw photos of dead G.I.’s on a Pacific beach. Today, it is on the…

  • Photojournalists On War: The Untold Stories From Iraq

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    Link: Photojournalists On War: The Untold Stories From Iraq – British Journal of Photography Photojournalists On War is the result of five years of interviews with some of the world’s leading photojournalists. However, it’s also the fruit of Michael Kamber’s frustration over the harrowing images that were never shown or published before

  • Capturing Syria: A brief video interview with war photographer Goran Tomasevic

    Capturing Syria: A brief video interview with war photographer Goran Tomasevic

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    Capturing Syria: A brief video interview with war photographer Goran Tomasevic “if I show the brutality of the war, like in Syria, maybe some people will think a bit more.” via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/02/capturing-syria-a-brief-video-interview-with-war-photographer-goran-tomasevic/?wprss=rss_world Reuters has produced this short video interview with Tomasevic, interspersed with some of his most famous photos from recent years.

  • Don McCullin: “I could have gone on photographing wars all my life, but what kind of person would it have made me?”

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    Link: Don McCullin: “I could have gone on photographing wars all my life, but what kind of person would it have made me?” – British Journal of Photography Don McCullin explains the curiosity that made him return to war, and the energy and passion of his thirties that led to the success of his career.…

  • War porn: blood, loss and living

    War porn: blood, loss and living

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    War porn: blood, loss and living — duckrabbit I read a thought-provoking article recently:  ‘War photography, war pornography: must we see blood to understand conflict?’ by Magda Mis,… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2013/08/war-porn-blood-loss-and-living/ I read a thought-provoking article recently:  ‘War photography, war pornography: must we see blood to understand conflict?’ by Magda Mis, writing on the Thomson…

  • Survival Tips for The Aspiring Conflict Photographer

    Survival Tips for The Aspiring Conflict Photographer

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    Survival Tips for The Aspiring Conflict Photographer – PhotoShelter Blog  “No professional soldier is sent to war without extensive training. Photographers who operate in exactly the same battle space without any training, experience or proper preparation put themselves in increased danger and potentially put others around the via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/08/survival-tips-for-the-aspiring-conflict-photographer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 As news media budgets…

  • Conflict Photogs Reflect on the Realities of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    Conflict Photogs Reflect on the Realities of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

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    Conflict Photogs Reflect on the Realities of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Conflict photographers like Michael Kamber and Louie Palu have spent years covering the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. They’ve lost friends, been very via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2013/08/05/war-photographers-comment-on-the-realities-of-the-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The exhibit, titled WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, actually began at the Museum…

  • What Do Cameras And Combat Have In Common?

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    Photo Exhibit Spanning Decades Reveals Our Collective War Story A genre-defining exhibition on view in Washington, D.C., says one thing about war: It’s constant. via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/07/12/201327477/what-do-cameras-and-combat-have-in-common?ft=1&f=97635953 War Photography is a genre-defining exhibition currently on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. And also the last place I wanted to find myself on…

  • Woman’s work

    Woman’s work

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    Woman’s work The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/feature/womans_work.php?page=all The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria

  • Ed Caesar on the end of war reporters & journalism

    Ed Caesar on the end of war reporters & journalism

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    Shooting the messengers How journalists came to be a target in the world’s most dangerous conflict zones via British GQ: http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-07/09/war-reporting/viewall The life of a war correspondent has never been cheaper. Travel, equipment… even the pay cheque is lighter. But the rules of engagement are different in today’s street-level combat zones, where the press corps’…

  • Photolucida: Dima Gavrysh: Insallah

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    Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Photolucida: Dima Gavrysh: Insallah Inshallah (God willing in Arabic) is a project that explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts.

  • Photojournalists on War: Untold Stories from Iraq

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    Link: Photojournalists on War: Untold Stories from Iraq | Le Journal de la Photographie As Dexter Filkins suggests in the introduction to his book Photographers on War, the war was the first and last of its kind. Michael Kamber is one of the witnesses of this conflict and its endless acts of cruelty. “When you’re…

  • Stacy L. Pearsall’s Photos From Iraq

    Stacy L. Pearsall’s Photos From Iraq

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    Still Shooting After the End of War A hard-fought career as a military photographer brought Stacy Pearsall honors. A medical discharge made her confront a more challenging battle for herself and fellow veterans. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/still-shooting-after-the-end-of-war/ Stacy Pearsall never wanted to stop being a combat photographer. When her job ended, she wondered whether life…

  • Peter van Agtmael Discusses Why He Photographed the Iraq War

    Peter van Agtmael Discusses Why He Photographed the Iraq War

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    A Photographer’s Unfiltered Account of the Iraq War In a new oral history of the Iraq war, Peter van Agtmael discusses what attracted him to photographing the American-led invasion — his roots, ambitions, experiences and reflections. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/an-unfiltered-account-of-photographing-the-iraq-war/ “Photojournalists on War,” an oral history of the Iraq war by those who documented it…

  • Shot at, seized by a murderous mob and chased by kidnappers…

    Shot at, seized by a murderous mob and chased by kidnappers…

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    War reporting – a veteran’s guide: Shot at, seized by a murderous As part of our Voices in Danger campaign, Robert Fisk reveals how he lived to tell the tale – and why the world is becoming a more dangerous place via The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/war-reporting–a-veterans-guide-shot-at-seized-by-a-murderous-mob-and-chased-by-kidnappers-8601590.html As part of our Voices in Danger campaign, Robert Fisk…

  • Palm Springs 2013: Ashley Gilbertson

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    Link: Palm Springs 2013: Ashley Gilbertson | Le Journal de la Photographie Ashley Gilbertson is an award-winning member of VII Photo. Gilbertson’s imagery from Iraq, where he worked from 2002 until 2008, earned him critical acclaim from the Overseas Press Club which awarded Gilbertson the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his 2004 work in…

  • The Veils of Aleppo: Photographs by Franco Pagetti

    The Veils of Aleppo: Photographs by Franco Pagetti

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/08/the-veils-of-aleppo-photographs-by-franco-pagetti/#1 The sheets are strung between buildings (what’s left of them, at least) and across streets. They are meant to obscure a sharpshooter’s line of sight, providing a small measure of protection from an assassin lurking in the shadows of these often…