Category: War
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'It's the Photographer': Joao Silva's Fateful Assignment in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com
This slide show is taken from the memory card that was in Joao Silva’s camera on Oct. 23 when he stepped on an anti-personnel mine at Checkpoint 16, near the village of Deh-e-Kuchay, Afghanistan. Mr. Silva, a contract photographer for The New York Times, and Carlotta Gall, a Times correspondent, were on patrol with a…
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The bug and the hero | Greg Marinovich
The first thing I noticed on going to see Joao at the Walter Reed (after all the uniforms, of course) is that there are dispensers with antiseptic hand gel everywhere. And god forbid you try to enter a patient’s room without cleaning your hands. The obsessive hygiene is like a sickness itself, to the ignorant…
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The Diary of a Killer in Chechnya – NYTimes.com
The Diary of a Killer in Chechnya One Russian soldier’s account offers a departure point for confronting the ways that war can unravel its participants. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/the-diary-of-a-killer-in-chechnya/ Every so often a lengthy newspaper or magazine article arrives that all but demands a fuller and even longer treatment. Such was the case in…
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Times Photographer Joao Silva: Courage, Recognized, in Combat – NYTimes.com
Courage, Recognized: The Infantry and Joao Silva Shots of battle from the war in Iraq in 2006, taken by the photographer Joao Silva, helped lead to a Bronze Star for a brave Marine sergeant who saved a fallen Marine’s life. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/courage-recognized-joao-silva-in-combat/ During a few frantic minutes late in 2006, Joao Silva,…
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Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman : CJR
Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/q_a_war_photographer_moises_saman.php?page=all “If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”
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Joao Silva: 'Acting Despite Fear.' An Interview by Michael Kamber – NYTimes.com
The following interview was conducted in Baghdad on Dec. 9, 2009, by Michael Kamber, a seasoned conflict photographer himself (“Hard Lessons From Somalia,” “A Long and Dangerous Road,” “Minders, Fixers, Troubles”). He is working on a book about photojournalism and war photography. This condensed version of their conversation begins with Mr. Silva describing his background.…
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FRAGO 242 and How the US Military Duped Photog. John Moore « Prison Photography
FRAGO 242 and How the US Military Duped Photog. John Moore FOR A HANDLE ON THE US MILITARY’S COMPLICITY IN WIDESPREAD TORTURE IN SAMARRA, IRAQ, WATCH THIS. FRAGO 242 FRAGO 242 is the US military’s abbreviation of a “fragmentary order̶… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/frago-242-and-how-the-us-military-duped-photog-john-moore/ When US military became aware of Iraqi torture of other Iraqis,…
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When We Decide to Know — BagNews
When We Decide to Know – Reading The Pictures Usually I avoid rubbing your face in it, but not today. This image, which has been sitting on my desktop for a few months, is offered out of anger, grief, and extreme frustration with press, public, and the Obama administration–and most of all with the via…
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Times Photographer Joao Silva's Injuries in Afghanistan Have a Widespread Impact – NYTimes.com
Widespread Impact From an Afghan Mine Joao Silva is known for his bravery and his caution in covering battle zones. Friends and colleagues were shocked by news he had been severely injured in Afghanistan. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/widespread-impact-from-an-afghan-mine/ Friends, colleagues and competitors of the photojournalist Joao Silva — there are many people in the first…
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In American Custody: John Moore's 'Detained' – NYTimes.com
In American Custody John Moore has dedicated himself to covering America’s wartime prisons and detention centers. James Estrin and David Furst of The Times interviewed him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/in-american-custod/ John Moore of Getty Images has visited American-run detention centers in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib and Camp Cropper; prisons for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan run…
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Joao Silva, Times Photographer, Wounded by Afghan Mine – NYTimes.com
Times Photographer Wounded by an Afghan Mine Joao Silva, a longtime contract photographer for The New York Times, was severely wounded when he stepped on a mine while on patrol with American soldiers. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/asia/24silva.html The photographer, Joao Silva, 44, suffered leg wounds from the bomb, which detonated as he was moving through an area…
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Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details
Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102201682.html?wprss=rss_world A massive cache of secret U.S. field reports from the Iraq war provides grim new details about the toll of that conflict, indicating that more than 100,000 Iraqis were killed during a six-year stretch and that American forces often failed to intervene as the U.S.-backed…
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The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator! – Boing Boing
The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator! Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by how it could get through such gruesome descriptions — fingers chopped off, chemicals splashed on prisoners — wit… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/22/torture.html Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by…
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Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore WikiLeaks’ Sheen? | Threat Level | Wired.com
Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore WikiLeaks’ Sheen? After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. Mea via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/wikileaks-iraq/ After a…
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Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video
Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100707341.html?wprss=rss_world The head of Pakistan’s military has ordered an investigation into a video, circulating on the Internet, that depicts the country’s soldiers executing blindfolded men in civilian dress.
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A Family Album: American Soldiers at War – NYTimes.com
A Family Album: American Soldiers at War Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” is more of a family album for a platoon in Afghanistan than a traditional photojournalism book. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/infidel/ Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” (Chris Boot Ltd., 2010) is more of a family album than a traditional photojournalism book. There are of course powerful images of…
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Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt | Threat Level
Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt A domino chain of resignations at the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks followed a unilateral decision by autocratic founder Julian Assange to schedule an October release of 392,000 classified U.S. documents from the war in Iraq, according to former WikiLeak via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt/ Key members of WikiLeaks were angered…
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Report From the Taliban Heartland – NYTimes.com
Report From the Taliban Heartland I’ve been working here for nine years and it’s become worse and worse. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/report-from-the-taliban-heartland/ New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks gives a first-hand account of a firefight in Afghanistan.