Category: War

  • Ron Haviv’s Bosnian War Images As Evidence in War Trials

    Ron Haviv’s Bosnian War Images As Evidence in War Trials

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Photography in the Docket, as Evidence Ron Haviv hoped images of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia in 1992 would stop the killings. They did not, but were recently used as evidence against commanders charged in the genocide. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/photography-in-the-docket-as-evidence/ On a cool spring day at the beginning of the Bosnian war in 1992, Ron…

  • An Expansive Exhibit of War Images at the Annenberg Space in Los Angeles

    An Expansive Exhibit of War Images at the Annenberg Space in Los Angeles

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    From Combat, Compassion An ambitious exhibition on images of war and its aftermath captures a complex set of emotions, from sorrow and grief to compassion and even joy. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/from-combat-compassion/ “It gets to be a push-pull situation for the viewer,” said Anne Tucker, curator of photography for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,…

  • George A. Strock’s Iconic World War II Image

    George A. Strock’s Iconic World War II Image

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Photo That Was Hard to Get Published, but Even Harder to Get An iconic World War II image nearly went unseen because the Pentagon wouldn’t allow photos to be published of American war dead. The image also was nearly never taken, because of the danger the photographer put himself in. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/a-photo-that-was-hard-to-get-published-but-even-harder-to-get/ One…

  • An Iconic Image from the Invasion of Iraq Wasn’t What It Seemed

    An Iconic Image from the Invasion of Iraq Wasn’t What It Seemed

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Toppling Saddam and a War’s Coverage The gripping footage of a Baghdad throng toppling Saddam Hussein’s statue was hardly the turning point of the war. If anything, it symbolized the problems covering the conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/toppling-saddam-and-a-wars-coverage/ “I saw this for what it was — this wasn’t Iwo Jima,” Gary Knight said. “It was…

  • Before and Before That: Alexandra Boulat and the Iraq War Ten Year Anniversary

    Before and Before That: Alexandra Boulat and the Iraq War Ten Year Anniversary

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Before and Before That: Alexandra Boulat and the Iraq War Ten Year Anniversary – Reading The Pictures Because Boulat died in 2007, I’m curious what her reaction would be to the compare-and-contrast of Baghdad now and Baghdad as we broke it. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/03/before-and-before-that-alexandra-boulat-and-the-iraq-war-ten-year-anniversary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 A photograph that speaks for itself is a powerful…

  • Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: After the War

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: After the War via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/iraq-wars-10th-anniversary-after-the-war/100477/ Ten years later, we look back in a three-part series. Today’s entry focuses on the period from 2011 to present-day

  • Franco Pagetti: Flashback Iraq

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Link: Franco Pagetti: Flashback Iraq | Le Journal de la Photographie Pagetti arrived in Baghdad shortly before the war broke out. His movements were limited by the regime, but that was before the horror and violence that would kill more civilians than soldiers (like all modern wars) and that would force him to cover the…

  • Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: The Invasion

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: The Invasion via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/iraq-wars-10th-anniversary-the-invasion/100475/ Today’s entry focuses on the March 20, 2003, invasion of Iraq, and the weeks immediately following

  • A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them MostLightBox

    A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them MostLightBox

    —

    by

    Trent
    in ,

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/18/a-decade-of-war-in-iraq-the-images-that-moved-them-most/#1 In the five years Baghdad was my home, I got to work (or just hang out) with some of the finest news photographers in the world: Yuri Kozyrev, Franco Pagetti, Kate Brooks, James Nachtwey, Robert Nicklesberg, Lynsey Addario, the late Chris…

  • A New Oral History of Documenting the Iraq War, ‘Photojournalists at War’

    A New Oral History of Documenting the Iraq War, ‘Photojournalists at War’

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Photographers’ Oral History of the Iraq War A new book, “Photojournalists at War,” is an oral history of the Iraq war from the perspective of three dozen photojournalists who documented it from the front lines. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/photographers-oral-history-of-the-iraq-war/ As the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war’s start approaches, Lens highlights “Photojournalists at War,” an…

  • Lynsey Addario’s Photos of Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Link: Lynsey Addario’s Photos of Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis – NYTimes.com Lynsey Addario entered Syria this year on assignment for The New York Times to show a broader, more human aspect of the conflict there. Her work took her to Aleppo Province, home to Syria’s largest city and site of some of the fiercest fighting. In…

  • United Nations report suggests Hamas may have killed Palestinian infant Omar Mishrawi

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Link: United Nations report suggests Hamas may have killed Palestinian infant Omar Mishrawi it turns out that, according to a new United Nations draft report from the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the explosive that killed Omar Mishrawi may have actually been fired by the Gaza-based militant group Hamas

  • Ten Years On: Photojournalists on War

    Ten Years On: Photojournalists on War

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Ten Years On: Photojournalists on War “Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq,” by Michael Kamber, ambitious in both its breadth and depth, and published as we approach the … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/ten-years-later-photojournalists-on-war.html#slide_ss_0=1 when I first went into Iraq, I was wearing jeans and T-shirt. I would photograph on the street as…

  • A Campaign to Underscore Risk of War Coverage

    A Campaign to Underscore Risk of War Coverage

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    A Campaign to Underscore Risk of War Coverage An initiative to raise awareness and encourage prosecution of those who target journalists. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/a-campaign-to-underscore-risk-of-war-coverage/?partner=rss&emc=rss So, enough controversy for you this week? It’s been interesting watching the Pelligrin story evolve over the last couple of days, but as I sit here on Sunday evening…

  • “A Day Without News?”: Raising Awareness of the Perils of Reporting

    “A Day Without News?”: Raising Awareness of the Perils of Reporting

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/22/a-day-without-news-raising-awareness-of-the-perils-of-reporting/#1 The journalistic community is marking the anniversary of Colvin and Ochlik’s deaths with “A Day Without News?” — a campaign to raise awareness of the hostile and dangerous conditions that many reporters and photographers work under around the world, posing the…

  • Is It More Dangerous than Ever to Be a Female War Reporter?

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Is It More Dangerous than Ever to Be a Female War Reporter? | PDNPulse In an interview with the Atlantic, author and former Reuters correspondent Anne Sebba makes several points about women war reporters that current female conflict journalists find insulting. Sebba, who is the author of a history of women reporters called B via PDNPulse:…

  • DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/diy-weapons-of-the-syrian-rebels/100461/ Mortar shell nose cones are turned on lathes and explosives are mixed by hand. Homemade grenades are launched by jury-rigged shotguns or giant slingshots in the urban battlefields of Aleppo and Damascus

  • Worth a look: Kalpesh Lathigra’s Anglo-Afghan War

    —

    by

    Trent
    in ,

    Link: Worth a look: Kalpesh Lathigra’s Anglo-Afghan War | dvafoto I first ran across Kalpesh Lathigra‘s series Anglo-Afghan War on tumblr, and was struck by the images. The work looks nothing like other coverage of the conflict I’ve seen. In the images, there aren’t explosions. There aren’t soldiers shooting. There aren’t locals kneeling or being…

  • Sunday Times tells freelances not to submit photographs from Syria

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Sunday Times tells freelances not to submit photographs from Syria – Press Gazette A British war photographer has been told not to submit his pictures from the Syria war zone to The Sunday Times because they “do not wish to encourage freelancers to take exceptional risks”. After submitting pictures from Aleppo this week Rick Findler…

  • Intense Battle Scenes from Damascus

    —

    by

    Trent
    in

    Intense Battle Scenes From Damascus via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/intense-battle-scenes-from-damascus/100450/ Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic returned to Syria earlier this month, where he has been traveling the war-torn streets of Damascus with the Free Syrian Army. His past 24 hours were especially harrowing, as he accompanied an FSA group on an attack mission