Category: War

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    When War Reporters Document Peace The VII Foundation presents a new book by photographer Gary Knight. Imagine: Reflections on Peace (also published in French as Imagine: Penser la paix), created in collaboration with several photo reporters and journalists, is a collection of 200 images accompanied by reflections on the imperfect construction of peace.

  • A searing elegy on war in Iraq and Afghanistan

    A searing elegy on war in Iraq and Afghanistan

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    A searing elegy on war in Iraq and Afghanistan From 2003 to 2008, Ben Brody worked as a combat photographer in Iraq, capturing the immense brutality that defined the war. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/a-searing-elegy-on-war-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/ From 2003 to 2008, Ben Brody worked as a combat photographer in Iraq, capturing both the immense brutality and unseen, candid…

  • Guerrero at war: chronicling southern Mexico’s forgotten conflict – photo essay | World news | The Guardian

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    Guerrero at war: chronicling southern Mexico’s forgotten conflict – photo essay Alfredo Bosco came to Guerrero on assignment to document southern Mexican villages emptied out by conflict. Over repeated visits he documents the region’s story via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/guerrero-at-war-chronicling-southern-mexico-forgotten-conflict-photo-essay Alfredo Bosco came to Guerrero on assignment to document southern Mexican villages emptied out by conflict.…

  • Photos: The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War – The Atlantic

    Photos: The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War – The Atlantic

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    Photos: The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War After six weeks of armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, a peace agreement, a handover of disputed territories, and mourning via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/11/photos-2020-nagorno-karabakh-war/617123/ One week ago, on November 10, a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement was signed by the president of Azerbaijan and the prime minister of Armenia, ending six weeks of…

  • The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk

    The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk

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    The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/599459/robert-fisk-documentary/ If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie.

  • ‘War was my life.’ Gary Knight on a career spent in conflict | British GQ

    ‘War was my life.’ Gary Knight on a career spent in conflict | British GQ

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    ‘War was my life.’ Photographer Gary Knight on a career spent at the heart of conflict Gary Knight has documented conflicts in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and farther afield. The photographer looks back on a career characterised in equal parts by violence and hope. via British GQ: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/gary-knight-imagine-reflections-on-peace Gary Knight has documented conflicts in…

  • Thana Faroq: “I documented women displaced by the war. Now I’m one of them” – British Journal of Photography

    Thana Faroq: “I documented women displaced by the war. Now I’m one of them” – British Journal of Photography

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    Thana Faroq: “I documented women displaced by the war. Now I’m one of them” Faroq left her native Yemen a year after the war broke out in 2015, and never returned. The experience recast her practice, and she began to turn the camera on herself via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/09/thana-faroq-i-used-to-document-the-lives-of-women-displaced-by-the-war-and-now-im-one-of-them/ Faroq left her native…

  • How Photographers Have Captured War and Unrest in Lebanon

    How Photographers Have Captured War and Unrest in Lebanon

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    How Photographers Have Captured War and Unrest in Lebanon Lebanon Then and Now at the Middle East Institute creates a dialogue between two generations of Lebanese photographers. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/584776/lebanon-then-and-now-photography-exhibition/ Lebanon Then and Now at the Middle East Institute creates a dialogue between two generations of Lebanese photographers.

  • How losing both legs and an arm covering the war in Afghanistan gave photographer Giles Duley a reason to live | South China Morning Post

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    He lost both legs and an arm to a bomb but still fights for others Photographer and triple amputee Giles Duley – who lost his legs and an arm to an IED on assignment in Afghanistan – explains why losing his limbs has made him even more passionate about highlighting human suffering. via South China…

  • Abood Hamam: ‘A picture can kill you or save your life’ – BBC News

    Abood Hamam: ‘A picture can kill you or save your life’ – BBC News

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    ‘A picture can kill you or save your life’ For years Abood Hamam sent war photos out of Syria anonymously. Now he’s using his name, and urging exiles to return. via BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53486838?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cxqvep8kqext/long-reads&link_location=live-reporting-story For years Abood Hamam chronicled the war in Syria for news outlets all over the world without ever revealing his name…

  • Crisis in the Sahel Becoming France’s Forever War – The New York Times

    Crisis in the Sahel Becoming France’s Forever War – The New York Times

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    Crisis in the Sahel Becoming France’s Forever War Riding along with French troops hunting Islamist militants in France’s unwinnable West African war. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/world/africa/france-sahel-west-africa-.html Riding along with French troops hunting Islamic militants in France’s unwinnable West African war

  • Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine

    Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine

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    Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/guillaume-chauvin-ukraine-photography-300320?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region.

  • I Went to Iraq to Take Photographs. I Stayed On as a Medic. – The New York Times

    I Went to Iraq to Take Photographs. I Stayed On as a Medic. – The New York Times

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    I Went to Iraq to Take Photographs. I Stayed On as a Medic. My plan was to photograph women displaced by ISIS. But in Mosul, I quickly found myself trying to save lives. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/magazine/iraq-mosul-medic.html When I first arrived in Iraq a week earlier, I had no intention of going to Mosul. In addition to…

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – the 10th annual Women’s show at Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, plus a review of Dr. Lauren Walsh’s exceptional book, Conversation… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-7-february-2020/ For those of us who work in journalism the myth of the cavalier photojournalist…

  • What’s the Point of Conflict Photography? – Witness

    What’s the Point of Conflict Photography? – Witness

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    What’s the Point of Conflict Photography? “I don’t see why I should care about that person.” via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/whats-the-point-of-conflict-photography-ee565909f778 At the time, I was teaching a course that concentrated on conflict photography and ethics. At one point during the semester, we were studying the coverage of a famine in Sudan in the early 1990s. My…

  • What is life really like for a conflict photographer?

    What is life really like for a conflict photographer?

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    What is life really like for a conflict photographer? Cengiz Yar has seen a few things in his time. But it was away from the frontlines that he came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/playlist-archive/cengiz-yar-the-grass-conflict-photography-iraq/ Photographer Cengiz Yar has seen things – from the rebels’…

  • “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images | The New Yorker

    “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images | The New Yorker

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    “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images Ben Brody’s book has no narrative, because, from the perspective of an American infantryman in Baghdad, the war had none. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/relentless-absurdity-an-army-photographers-censored-images In his new book, “Attention Servicemember,” Ben Brody recounts being sent to a Rotary Club luncheon near Fort Stewart, Georgia, to present a…

  • The E&P Pub: After Flap Over AP Photo — Military Bans Images of Casualties in War

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    Link: The new rule, contained in a Sept. 19 directive from the Combined Joint Task Force in Bagram, Afghanistan,  simply states:  “Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action.”  Period. 

  • It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2) – Opinionator

    It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2) – Opinionator

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    It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2) The conclusion of a closer look at a child’s toy among bombed-out ruins, and at what it’s like photographing a war. via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-2/ BEN CURTIS: So there should be 19 pictures, numbered 101 to 119. Basically, I spent the whole day out and then came…

  • Combat Photography, Wounded Warriors & The Long Wait for Help – A Picture's Worth

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    Link: We caught up with PhotoShelter member Stacy Pearsall last week at the 2010 D.C. Shoot Off.  Stacy is a retired Air Force Staff Sergeant and two-time winner of the Military Photographer of the Year award.  She did three tours of duty in Iraq.