Category: War
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Reports: At Least Four Journalists Dead in Georgia Fighting
Photographer Klimchuk and journalist Grigol Chikhladze died after their vehicle came under attack by Georgian forces at a roadblock Monday, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Klimchuk was the head of the Georgian photo agency Caucasus Images, according to the agency’s Web site. Chikhladze was working as a reporter for Russian Newsweek, according to friend…
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War in South Ossetia – The Big Picture – Boston.com
On Thursday, August 7th, Georgian armed forces entered into the breakaway region of South Ossetia to assert Georgian governance of the region – a de facto (yet largely unrecognized) independent republic that has support from neighboring Russia. Russia responded on August 8th by sending its own military into Georgia – not only into region of…
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Battle Cry – Taunting the Bear – NYTimes.com
The border between Georgia and Russia, in short, has been the driest of tinder; the only question was where the fire would start. Check it out here.
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Russia widens attacks as world pleads for peace in South Ossetia | World news | The Observer
The latest moves come amid concern over the civilian death toll on both sides, which appeared to have reached 2,000 yesterday. The first horrific images began emerging from the Georgian town of Gori, bombed yesterday by Russian jets, where up to 60 civilians died when bombs landed on two apartment blocks in a town that…
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Full Battle Rattle
In California’s Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a “virtual Iraq” – a billion dollar urban warfare simulation – and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. FULL BATTLE RATTLE, a feature documentary, follows an Army Battalion through the simulation, as they attempt to quell an insurgency and prevent Medina Wasl, a mock Iraqi…
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The Public Editor – The Painful Images of War – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com
TWO hundred twenty-one American soldiers and Marines have been killed in Iraq this year, but until eight days ago, The Times had not published a photo of one of their bodies. The picture The Times did publish on July 26, of a room full of death after a suicide bombing in June, with a marine…
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4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images – NYTimes.com
If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a…
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Ricochet – washingtonpost.com
By Warren Zinn The e-mail was a punch in the gut: “the soldier you made famous — killed himself last Saturday — thought you should know.” I thought I’d put photojournalism and war behind me four and a half years ago when I traded in the dusty battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan for law school…
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ZORIAH: Embed Termination – Statement About My Situation in Iraq
Photo by Zoriah After the post was online, I was told that the Marine Corps would not allow even the pants or shoes of a injured or killed Marine to be depicted in images. This was a rule I had never been told or even heard of. I refused to remove the blog post. It…
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Photo Essay Grozny – Then and Now – Eric Bouvet
Eric Bouvet covered the Second Chechen War from October to December of 1999, and returned in February 2000. Bouvet traveled with three Russian officers during his second visit to the region and witnessed up-close the destruction and decay of a country ravaged by war. In Grozny, Chechnya’s capital city, buildings were all but leveled, tens…
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Behind the Lens with Stacy Pearsall – – PopPhotoJune 2008
Combat photojournalist Stacy Pearsall was named the Military Photographer of the Year recently for the second time. One of only two women to take home the honor, she is the first woman to take it twice. Having just finished serving as a mentor for the annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Workshop, Pearsall talked with…
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War Photog Blends Video, Stills for New Combat Views
Ziv Koren is a world-renown combat photographer whose coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has vaulted him to international acclaim. Now, he’s helping invent a whole new visual aesthetic that digitally combines still photos with moving images, seamlessly. Check it out here.
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The search for Sean Flynn continues: mensvogue.com
The first time my father told me about Sean Flynn’s disappearance, I felt as if a spider had walked down my spine. “Just gone?” I said, looking down at a picture that was taken of Sean hours before he vanished into the Cambodian countryside in April 1970 — a heart-stoppingly handsome young man on a…
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Wars: Chechnya and Iraq. A Magnum photo essay. – – Slate Magazine
Photographs by Thomas Dworzak “I’m embedded with the Americans in Iraq. As a Westerner, there is no more access to the insurgents’ side. I don’t claim to have any overview. History made my choice—it’s fine!” Check it out here.
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Sudan's Macabre Display Of Victory Over Attackers – washingtonpost.com
With state TV cameras set up across a dusty field, he surveyed a row of battered and bullet-holed Hilux trucks that government forces had seized from the rebels. Bashir raised an ivory-tipped baton, and hundreds of security forces cheered, waving shoes, T-shirts and other clothes allegedly stripped off the doomed fighters. Then he strolled past…
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The Most Curious Thing – Errol Morris
The question kept coming up. How do you explain the smile? What does it mean? Not only is she smiling, she is smiling with her thumbs-up – over a dead body. The photograph suggests that she may have killed the guy, and she looks proud of it. She looks happy. I should back up a…
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Close enough… | Blogs | Reuters.com
From Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic who is near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan with the U.S. 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit come these 4 frames from a sequence taken when the unit came under fire from Taliban fighters May 18, 2008. Check it out here.
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Remembering Sean Flynn: a Photojournalist Who Died at War (VIDEO)
Most people who remember the album “Combat Rock” by The Clash might remember a song called Sean Flynn, but they probably don’t know exactly who the early punkers were talking about. The son of Hollywood movie actor Errol Flynn, he could have lived his life a thousand different ways. Sean Flynn had a semi-successful acting…
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Joe Galloway Was Not on the Pentagon 'Propaganda' Bus — As These Emails Show
In light of the current uproar over the Pentagon’s “propaganda” program involving retired military officers deployed on the media, it is worth recalling that famed military reporter Joe Galloway took issue with the official line long before he retired nearly two years ago. In fact, two years ago this month he went out with a…
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The Art of Soviet Propaganda: Iconic Red Army Reichstag Photo Faked
A Soviet soldier heroically waves the red flag, the hammer and sickle billow above the Reichstag. Yevgeny Khaldei photographed one of the iconic images of the 20th century. But the legendary image was manipulated to conceal the fact that the Soviet soldiers on the roof had been looting. An exhibition of Khaldei’s work opens in…