Category: War

  • “War/Photography”: A Comprehensive New Look at the World in Conflict

    “War/Photography”: A Comprehensive New Look at the World in Conflict

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    Total War: A New Look at Conflict Photography In November, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will unveil an exhibition on war photography unprecedented in scale and ambition. The origins of … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/war-photography-museum-of-fine-arts-houston.html#slide_ss_0=1 “We didn’t feel there was a real digging into the subject,” Tucker told me. The bodies of work…

  • Video interview: Death in Syria – how Globalpost’s Tracey Shelton captured her extraordinary images

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    Link: DSLR News Shooter | Video interview: Death in Syria – how Globalpost’s Tracey Shelton captured her extraordinary images Perhaps no images have captured the vicious conflict in Syria as graphically as Tracey Shelton’s shots capturing the moment a tank blast killed three rebel fighters at a barricade in Aleppo. They went viral and were…

  • Robert Nickelsberg’s Photographs of Wars in Afghanistan

    Robert Nickelsberg’s Photographs of Wars in Afghanistan

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    A Long View of Afghanistan’s Wars The photographer Robert Nickelsberg has been making trips to Afghanistan since 1988. His new book-length project, “A Distant War,” goes past the current, seemingly intractable American invasion to show how a nation has been beleaguered by decades of almos via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/a-long-view-of-wars-in-afghanistan/ The reporter who worked most closely…

  • ‘Best week ever,’ journalist writes after being shot at and bombed at

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    Link: ‘Best week ever,’ journalist writes after being shot at and bombed at | JIMROMENESKO.COM

  • Horrific Photo from Aleppo: War Porn or Stellar Journalism?

    Horrific Photo from Aleppo: War Porn or Stellar Journalism?

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    Horrific Photo from Aleppo: War Porn or Stellar Journalism? – Reading The Pictures My question is: is the picture of Syrian rebels at the moment of death a stellar piece of journalism and an essential contribution to our knowledge of the Syrian civil war in particular and war overall, or is this photo more a…

  • Photojournalism: The cost of covering conflicts – British Journal of Photography

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    Link: Photojournalism: The cost of covering conflicts – British Journal of Photography In just eight months, 34 journalists have been killed around the globe, 16 of them just in Syria. As the death toll mounts, representatives of the photojournalism community gathered at Visa pour l’Image to discuss the cost of covering conflict. Olivier Laurent reports…

  • Rémi Ochlik’s Revolutions

    Rémi Ochlik’s Revolutions

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/05/remi-ochlik-revolutions/#1 This spring, after French war photographer Rémi Ochlik was killed during fighting in Homs, Syria, a group of close friends and colleagues felt their obligations to the photographer weren’t complete. Meeting aboard a TGV train on their way to Paris from…

  • Benedicte Kurzen’s Photos of Conflict in Restive Nigeria

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    Link: Benedicte Kurzen’s Photos of Conflict in Restive Nigeria – NYTimes.com Benedicte Kurzen, a French photographer who has been based in Johannesburg since 2005, came to Nigeria last year with a Pulitzer Center grant and a sense of the roiling tensions there: long-seeded resentments, rooted in the breathtaking disparity of wealth, widespread corruption and a…

  • Goran Tomasevic’s Photos in Syria

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    Link: Goran Tomasevic’s Photos in Syria – NYTimes.com Honestly, I didn’t have any expectations. I didn’t know how the urban environment would look, but I wasn’t surprised by the things I saw. I knew there was going to be some destruction because of the scale of bombardment. I also knew there would be guys running…

  • Syria, ‘on the Verge of Collapse’

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    Syria, ‘on the Verge of Collapse’ via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/08/syria-on-the-verge-of-collapse/100352/ Nearly a year and a half after Syria’s uprising began back in the Arab Spring, it has devolved into a violent civil war with fractious rebel forces continuing their efforts to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power. Earlier today, Riad Hijab, Syria’s Prime Minister who…

  • Photojournalist Describes Wreckage in Tremseh, Syria

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    Photojournalist Describes Wreckage in Tremseh, Syria | PDNPulse Spanish photographer Daniel Leal Olivas, who reached the Syrian village of Tremseh on Friday July 13, reports that he saw what looked to be the effects of shells fired by tanks in the village. That would contradict the Syrian government’s claims that the via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/07/photojournalist-describes-wreckage-in-tremseh-syria.html Spanish…

  • Witnesses to War

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    Link: Witnesses to War – NYTimes.com Michael Kamber decided that someone had to gather all of his fellow photojournalists’ accounts and unpublished images in one place so there would be, in his words, “an accurate history.” So he took on the task himself and started formally recording his colleagues. He has collected 39 of these…

  • The picture of the cost of war

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    Link: The picture of the cost of war – Spotlight – The Buffalo News First of four parts: The News profiles those whose lives were changed in the traumatic moment captured in this iconic photo from Operation Desert Storm. via @marclesterphoto

  • Three War Photographers: Feel Fear, Keep Going

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    Link: Three War Photographers: Feel Fear, Keep Going – LightBox Ralph Morse, Larry Burrows, James Nachtwey When other people run away from danger, they run toward it. They go into battle armed with nothing but courage. Like everyone else, they experience fear — but unlike everyone else, they keep going.

  • Former Yugoslavia

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie in the early 1990s, Yugoslavia explodes, like a return to the origins, April 1992, Sarajevo is under attack from Karadzic’s murderers, Mladic is under the orders of Milosevic in Belgrade. War had already begun in what is now called “former Yugoslavia”. But the siege of Sarajevo, the suffocation of…

  • 20 Years Later: The Bosnian Conflict in Photographs

    20 Years Later: The Bosnian Conflict in Photographs

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/05/bosnia/#1 The photographs in the gallery above are from the book Bosnia 1992 – 1995, available July 2012. The book will be self-published by the photographers who covered the Bosnian conflict—which began 20 years ago today—and printed in Bosnia. The captions below these photographs…

  • Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War

    Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War

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    Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War “From the American invasion of Iraq nine years ago this spring through occupation and the official end of the U.S. mission last December, a generation of… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/generation-iraq-americas-war-and-the-photographers-who-covered-it.html?currentPage=all On Wednesday, Shapiro will moderate “Generation Iraq: Journalists Confront America’s War,” a conversation among five reporters…

  • My journey into Syria’s nightmare

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    My journey into Syria’s nightmare The contact from Syria called: “Be ready in 30 minutes,” he said. “If you want to go, we have to go now.” via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/03/14/my-journey-into-syrias-nightmare/ In Syria, enemies are yards apart. The war is being fought from house to house. Not knowing the local terrain, we were completely dependent on…

  • On International Women’s Day, reflections from women journalists in war zones

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    On International Women’s Day, reflections from women journalists in war zones On International Women’s Day, a new book discusses the safety of female journalists on the front lines. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/on-international-womens-day-reflections-from-women-journalists-in-war-zones/2012/03/08/gIQA1xDRzR_blog.html?wprss=rss_world

  • 13 Syrians die attempting to rescue foreign journalists in Homs

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    Link: The Washington Post the ferocity of the attack scattered the rest of the group, Avaaz said. The three other journalists were forced to turn back and remain trapped in Bab Amr. Ten more activists escorting them were killed in the confused retreat into the neighborhood, which has come under sustained bombardment for the past…