Category: War
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Wim Wenders: Eulogy for James Nachtwey at the occasion of the Dresden Prize
Wim Wenders – Eulogy for James Nachtwey at the occasion of the Dresden Prize If a war photographer is awarded a Peace Prize, furthermore in a city once devastated by a war, then he must be a very special person and a truly extraordinary photographer. And he must have… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/02/wim-wenders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 James Nachtwey’s images give…
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Exclusive Syria Photographs by Alessio Romenzi
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/15/syria-at-war/#1 Meanwhile, in al-Qsair, a town south of Homs, government marksmen continued to take their toll. Says Alessio Romenzi, a photographer on assignment in the area for TIME: “The snipers do not sleep.”
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Iraqi Photographers Captured the Costs of War
Iraqi Photographers Captured the Costs of War Many of the most dramatic images of the Iraq war were made by Iraqi photographers who risked life and limb. They set out to document what many hoped would be its rebirth, and kept shooting what they realized was its dissolution. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/iraqi-photographers-captured-the-costs-of-war/?pagewanted=all In my mind’s…
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Michael Kamber Looks Back on Iraq War
Michael Kamber, Lens When the war started, photojournalism did show its power to sway public opinion. But it was in those early years as well — in some of the same images — that we saw photojournalism’s failures.
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Benjamin Lowy: War Photographer
Benjamin Lowy: War Photographer The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/11/benjamin-lowy-iraq-perspectives.html The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq |…
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Guillermo Cervera Finds Tranquility in the Surf
Trading War for Waves To cope with the stress of conflict photography, Guillermo Cervera dives into the surf to photograph the perfect wave. How an old hand at the sea says a farewell to arms every now and then. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/trading-war-for-waves/ “In between conflicts, I go and photograph surfing,” he said. “I’ve always…
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On Young Photographers and Conflict
Lens: Though there are no hard numbers, the Libyan war appeared to draw a large number of unprepared and inexperienced photographers to the war zone. Anecdotal evidence suggests hundreds of photographers from around the world flocked to the cities of Ajdabiya, Benghazi and Misurata in the spring of 2011. Many of them were under 30…
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Return to Libya: Reflections on a Photographer’s Personal Conflict
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/21/return-to-libya-reflections-on-a-photographers-personal-conflict/#1 The personal conflict I felt during this time brought me to a point where my relation to breaking news played less an immediate role in my work than trying to restore my connection during a period when so much was unclear…
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Silver Halide Martyrs – Eritrean revolutionary archives
Greg Marinovich: Uniquely, the Eritrean revolutionaries fighting for independence from Ethiopia made a decision in the ’Sixties to assign fighters – both male and female – to record the war. They wanted to be in a position to write their own history, and not have their epic struggle distorted by the outside world. They also…
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Don McCullin’s war with guilt
cnn: He has, as he puts it, taken “terrible liberties” with his life — dashing through rice paddies in Vietnam to escape snipers’ bullets; jumping up to snap a shot during gun battles — to bring home images that are, at times, excruciating to look at but often unforgettable.
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War Photographers in Afghanistan: The Images That Moved Them Most
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/07/afghanistan-the-photographs-that-moved-them-most/#1 On the tenth anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, TIME asks 40 renowned photographers to reflect on their harrowing experiences covering the conflict—and to describe which of their own photographs moved them most.
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Tyler Hicks: A Decade in Afghanistan
lens: There are places and times where the politics that drive wars fade and then fade more, becoming abstractions to the people who fight or who are in a fight’s way. And there are moments when politics entirely disappear, and more elemental actions and emotions replace them. These are the seams and the instants that…
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Hell and Back Again
lens: As the Afghan war neared a decade’s worth of combat, casualties and headlines, the photographer and filmmaker Danfung Dennis was looking to jolt people’s consciousness. “I was frustrated with photojournalism, and I was frustrated with society back in the U.S. being indifferent to the war,” said Mr. Dennis, who had covered Afghanistan as a…
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Christopher Morris, ‘Shut up, stop thinking for yourself and kneel before the almighty war photographer’s pictures’. Rafiqui., ‘Err, maybe not tonight Chris’.
The VII photographer Christopher Morris has responded to my post ‘The War Photographers biggest story: themselves‘, which I published a few days ago, and which seems to have hit a nerve. I’m posting his comment in full below as well as a response from Asim Rafiqui, who recieved The Aftermath grant in 2009.
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The war photographer’s biggest story: themselves
The war photographer’s biggest story: themselves — duckrabbit Is the ‘best’ story a war photographer can provide these days – the one that will get the most space… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/07/the-war-photographers-biggest-story-themselves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+duckrabbit/Nrks+(duckrabbit) Is the ‘best’ story a war photographer can provide these days – the one that will get the most space – themselves? Not just…
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Theater of War: Inside Gaddafi’s Libya
From February 26th to April 7th, 2011, Moises Saman, on assignment for The New York Times, was one of the few western photographers allowed to work in Tripoli—as a “guest” of the Gaddafi regime. Link: Theater of War: Inside Gaddafi’s Libya – LightBox
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Meditation On The Death Of A Hero
As we walked the streets, I noticed a certain type of photographer that stood in contrast to the sophisticated, mature practioners like Tim or our other luncheon mates, John Stanmeyer, Ami Vitale, David Strick, Jack Picone and others. It seemed to me this group was like a pack of roving jackals. There was a certain…