Category: War
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On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens
On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall Moises Saman has returned to Afghanistan time and again with the hope of documenting the promise of peace and prosperity, which now seem ever more elusive. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/assignment-17/ KABUL — I was one of the hundreds of young photojournalists who came to this distant country in 2001…
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100Eyes: Beware the Consequences of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
First I must warn you that this exhibition includes some “graphic images”. These are images that were not composed to conceal the results of violence. I urge you not to recoil and ask you to study these images. Try to conjure them up whenever you see a newspaper headline reporting deaths or injuries. Even if…
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U.N. relocating about 600 staff following Afghan attack – washingtonpost.com
United Nations mission in Afghanistan relocating workers after Kabul attack Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110501015.html?wprss=rss_world The U.N. decision was another sign of the Taliban’s ability to use violence against civilians to curtail humanitarian and development work in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Showcase: Peter van Agtmael — ‘2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die’ – Lens Blog
In the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where images have largely been sanitized, Peter van Agtmael’s photographs offer an up-close look at wars that, to most, seem emotionally blurred and distant. His recently released book, “2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die,” is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: the wars’ effects on him, on the…
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Kabul, Echoes of Saigon – At War
in some ways Kabul was Saigon. Westerners could drink wine and beer and eat Frenchified Afghan food while a rural insurgency gathered strength, moving from village to village, from areas where the Americans had added troops to areas where there were European troops who fought less aggressively or places where there were no troops at…
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U.S. official resigns over Afghan war – washingtonpost.com
U.S. official resigns over Afghan war Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html?wprss=rss_world “There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed,” he said of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. “I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys.” But many Afghans, he wrote in his resignation letter, are fighting the United States largely…
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100Eyes || Beware the Cost of War
Link: 100Eyes || Beware the Cost of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine The photographers in this exhibition are some of the best in the world. Uriel Sinai and Amit Shabi have been awarded in the World Press photography competition, Jafar Ishtyeh and Mahmud Hams have won the Prix Bayeux war photography prize and all…
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U.S. Military Backing Away From Ban On Photos Of Dead?
Link: U.S. Military Backing Away From Ban On Photos Of Dead?: That’s right, apparently it’s not over with yet – there may be more revisions coming, according to a Pentagon spokesperson late today.
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Behind the Scenes: Rewriting the Rules – Lens Blog
Behind the Scenes: Rewriting the Rules A military command in Afghanistan issues, then revises, media rules. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/behind-21/ Donald R. Winslow, the editor of News Photographer magazine and of the National Press Photographers Association Web site, said, “None of us could recall any time in history that photographers had been banned from taking…
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Ground Rules On "Killed In Action" Photos Revised Again – NPPA
Link: Ground Rules On “Killed In Action” Photos Revised Again – NPPA: “14. Media will not be prohibited from viewing or filming casualties; however, casualty photographs showing recognizable face, nametag or other identifying feature or item will not be published. In respect to our family members, names, video, identifiable written/oral descriptions or identifiable photographs of…
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PDN: New Rule Bans Some Afghanistan Casualty Photos
Link: PDN: New Rule Bans Some Afghanistan Casualty Photos
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The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire – washingtonpost.com
The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100303048.html?wprss=rss_world In recent months, the battle of Wanat has come to symbolize the U.S. military’s missteps in Afghanistan. It has provoked Brostrom’s father to question why Jonathan died and whether senior Army officers — including a former colleague and close friend — made careless mistakes that…
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High Definition War Footage Taken with Canon 5D Mark II – Obama's War – Gizmodo
Via: High Definition War Footage Taken with Canon 5D Mark II – Obama’s War – Gizmodo: I’m amazed by the cinematic qualities of this high definition footage from Frontline’s documentary Obama’s War. The color, the depth, the texture, it all screams film to me. Except it’s just a Canon 5D Mark II rigged by Danfung…
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PDNPulse: Just One Photographer Still Covering Returning Military Dead
Link: PDNPulse: Just One Photographer Still Covering Returning Military Dead: The Examiner reports that the AP usually sends the same photographer to every transfer, but fails to mention his name. So we will: Steve Ruark. AP spokesperson Paul Colford tells us Ruark sometimes makes two trips in a single day to Dover to photograph these…
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From the Archive: Not New, Never Easy – Lens Blog
Link: From the Archive: Not New, Never Easy – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: In two years of global warfare, America had yet to see almost any pictures of dead Americans. Then, in September 1943, an issue of Life magazine arrived in people’s homes and at their corner newsstands. It forced them to confront a stark,…
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Readers’ Voices: Public and Private Trauma
Link: Readers’ Voices: Public and Private Trauma – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: No subject we’ve tackled in the first four months of the Lens blog has touched quite so raw a nerve as our Sept. 4 post (”Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not?“) about a decision by The Associated Press to distribute a photograph…
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Military's Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book
Link: Military’s Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book – washingtonpost.com: The Reuters photographer and driver were carrying cameras and walking with a group of Iraqi men, some of whom appeared to be armed, when a U.S. helicopter crew mistook them for insurgents, according to an account by David Finkel in the…
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Too Close for Comfort? : CJR
Link: Too Close for Comfort? : CJR: The dramatic change in Ricks’s writing about the military in Iraq reflects a broader shift that has taken place in the coverage of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The doctrine of counterinsurgency has received almost uniformly positive press coverage, at times making it appear to be…
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Journal entries of AP photographer embedded with US Marines in Afghanistan
Link: Journal entries of AP photographer embedded with US Marines in Afghanistan – The Digital Journalist: To publish or not is the question. The image is not the most technically sound, but his face is visible as are his wounds. Many factors come into play. There’s the form we signed agreeing to how and what…
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John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog
Link: John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Sultan Munadi is dead, and a British paratrooper whose name we may never know. There may also have been Afghan casualties, perhaps Taliban, perhaps not; that we also don’t know yet, for sure. But from where I am writing this, on a sunny…