Category: War
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Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War – MediaStorm
Reuters and MediaStorm collaborated to create Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War. Check it out here.
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Friend's Death Shows Cost of Iraq War – washingtonpost.com
The Death of Russian photographer Dmitry Chebotayev. In my nightmares, the helicopters still come out of a dark sky, two black spots barely visible against the backdrop of night. Their swirling blades grow louder until they finally touch down on earth and fall silent. They look like giant steel bugs from another planet, bulbous robots…
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Lori Grinker: 15 Years Documenting War – – PopPhotoMarch 2008
Five years was about how long Lori Grinker thought it would take document the stories of former soldiers; she was only off by a decade. Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO), a 248-page collection of intimate color portraits and searing first-person accounts of postwar existence was published in March, 2005 — 15 years…
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Press Photos from Iraq: What Will History Say?
When you close your eyes and think of Iraq, what do you see in your mind’s eye? Is it a picture of charred bodies hanging from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah? Is it a picture of a Marine climbing a massive statue of Saddam Hussein to place an American flag on its…
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AP: Hidden Toll in Iraq — 70,000 U.S. Soldiers Suffering from Hearing Damage
Hearing damage is the No. 1 disability in the war on terrorism, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and some experts say the true toll could take decades to become clear. Nearly 70,000 of the more than 1.3 million troops who have served in the two war zones are collecting disability for tinnitus, a…
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Congo's Silent Scream silent scream – Roanoke.com
This was the summer of 2006, and Melanie Blanding, a photographer from Roanoke, was in the Democratic Republic of Congo to take a series of portraits of women scarred by war. The women are victims of violent, often monstrous sexual assaults, and their numbers appear to be growing. Picture a photographer in Africa to document…
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Eugene Richards On "War is Personal" – PDN
Documentary photojournalist Eugene Richards has a long career of producing powerful projects on social issues such as drug abuse, mental illness and aging. He is now working on a project on the impact of the Iraq war titled “War is Personal.” Helped by a grant from National Geographic Magazine, he is traveling around the U.S.…
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A Bloody Stalemate In Afghanistan – Korengal Valley – New York Times
Photo by Lynsey Addario for The New York Times As I went to get some hot chocolate in the dining tent, the peaceful night was shattered by mortars, rockets and machine-gun fire banging and bursting around us. It was a coordinated attack on all the fire bases. It didn’t take long to understand why so…
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BATTLESPACE | NYC | November Eleven
: Photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, Andrew Cutraro, Ashley Gilbertson, Balazs Gardi, Ben Lowy, Christoph Bangert, Eros Hoagland, Ghaith Abdul Ahad, Guy Calaf, Jason Howe, Jehad Nga, Lucian Read, Luke Wolagiewicz, Mike Kamber, Moises Saman, Peter van Agtmael, Rita Leistner, Stefan Zaklin, Stephanie Sinclair, Teru Kuwayama, Yuri Kozyrev, Zalmai Feb 28—April…
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Celebrated Conflict Photog Reveals True Identity – Digital Chosunilbo
Those who followed the story of the 23 Koreans kidnapped in Afghanistan in July last year may remember the name Kim Joo-seon, a Korean freelance reporter who went where no other Korean reporters were allowed to go. Kim scored an exclusive interview with Taliban commanders in the Ghazni region, the base of the Taliban militants,…
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The 'Inside' Story On A Mutiny In Iraq
: Kelly Kennedy and photographer Rick Kozak had gone out on a patrol earlier that morning in Adhamiyah, one of Baghdad’s worst neighborhoods before the troop “surge,” and were supposed to go on that second one during which the IED detonated — but at the last moment decided to stay and do some interviews on…
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87 Journalists Killed on the Job in 2007, China Leads in Jailing Them
Iraq was the deadliest place for journalists last year, while China led the rest of the world in jailing members of the news media and cracking down on freedom of expression, a media rights group reports. Russia and Iran also took significant steps to muzzle the media, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said. All told,…
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Editorial Photographers UK | UK photographer kidnapped in Iraq
Richard Butler was kidnapped in the southern city of Basra on Sunday, a police source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency. Check it out here.
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Saved From a Lynching – APhotoADay News
: From The Vigilante Journalist blog: My first day on the ground in Kenya, I went into Mathare with a group of photographers after hearing that there had been some problems. Two mobs were facing off on the main street leading into the Nairobi slum. Once the dust had settled, I met an Italian photographer…
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Out of Africa – Reuters Photographers
: I’ve been trying to write about some sport images that caught my eye while trawling through the Reuters file but I keep getting hung up on our pictures from Kenya. They are so raw, so powerful and uncompromising that even the most accomplished images of cossetted sportsmen performing in completely controlled circumstances seem insignificant in comparison. Check it out here.
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World Press Photo – Photo of the Year – Tim Hetherington
: The international jury of the 51st annual World Press Photo Contest selected a color image of the UK photographer Tim Hetherington as World Press Photo of the Year 2007. The picture was taken 16 September 2007 and shows a US soldier resting at “Restrepo” bunker, named after a soldier from his platoon who was…
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Photo Essay: Kenya, By Marcus Bleasdale
By Marcus Bleasdale: The post election violence in Kenya has killed nearly 1,000 and displaced 270,000. It is the most devastating violence to hit Kenya since its independence. Whilst politicians try to find solutions in Nairobi, the ethnic tensions in the Rift Valley reach new highs. Ethnic cleansing has led to killings and houses being…
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Photographer describes wars in pictures – News
: Chris Hondros has seen the world at war first hand – and so has his camera lens. Working for Getty images as a war photographer for almost a decade, he has captured militiamen crying out in battle in the Second Liberian Civil War, American soldiers on raids in Iraq and children in the arms…
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State of the Art: Last Dispatch from Ernie Pyle
: It is just a photograph of a body at the side of a road—another death among the millions of deaths of World War II. Yet this photo, long lost and never before published, has surprised historians. The dead man in the picture is Ernie Pyle, the famed war correspondent whose dispatches painted vivid portraits…
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VII Photo Essay – The Valley – by Balazs Gardi
: Korengal Valley is among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S forces. The six-mile long strategic passage is located in northeastern Afghanistan surrounded by treacherous mountain ridges, which are held desperately by the Taleban and al-Qaeda. Nearly one-fifth of all combat in Afghanistan occurs in this valley, and nearly three-quarters of…