Category: War
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Associated Press Photographer David Guttenfelder goes to war with… an iPhone – 1854
Link: “These photographs, shot with an iPhone I carried in my flak jacket pocket, are not about the fight for Marjah,” Guttenfelder says. “Instead, they are an attempt, during my downtime, to show something of the daily lives of Marines and Afghan soldiers as they moved through the city and set down their packs each…
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A Photo Student › Shooting Gallery – The limitations of photojournalism and the ethics of artistic representation
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2010/06/07/shooting-gallery-the-limitations-of-photojournalism-and-the-ethics-of-artistic-representation/ The winning press photos by Hetherington and Guttenfelder on the one hand and McQueen’s art work on the other can be seen as two poles defining the spectrum of possible representations of war with a camera – one employs the rhetoric of reportage, the other uses…
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Stellazine: A Photographer Reviews "Restrepo"
Link: I met Linda Covello when I worked at Newsweek and she was shooting for cover stories about American kids. She is first and foremost a portrait photographer with a great connection to people and their environment. Linda is also a serious film buff, and after talking to her about Restrepo, the award-winning film from…
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Picturing War's Wounded and Dead – NYTimes.com
Picturing War’s Wounded and Dead There is no telling how people will react to realistic images and written reports that show war for what it is. But such images do serve a purpose. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/picturing-wars-wounded-and-dead/ “For centuries pictures of the dead and wounded have been part and parcel of war communications. Often…
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The Transformation Of Pathology Into Pathos Or The Military Does What It Does And It Does It We « The Spinning Head
Link: What confuses me is the thought behind the video and comments: Michael Kamber is surprised that a system meticulously designed to censor the likes of him, is…..censoring him. Isn’t this precisely what this system is designed to do?
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New York Times photographer severely wounded in Afghanistan – British Journal of Photography
Link: Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, has been severely wounded in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, the newspaper has announced
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Bonding With Subjects in Harm's Way – NYTimes.com
Bonding With Subjects in Harm’s Way The divide between journalist and subject can often blur in the combat theater, especially when the subject is under fire. Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters explains. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/bonding-with-subjects-in-harms-way/ But that didn’t make it any easier to photograph him on Monday after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an Afghan…
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Do Damon Winter’s iPhone pictures make a mockery of New York Times policy on digital manipulation? | duckrabbit
Link: Once again we are talking about how ‘beautiful’ the photos are, or what a great device the iPhone is, but not about the war in Afghanistan (although many people do comment that the photos bring them close to the lives of the soldiers). Would we really be talking about these pictures if they hadn’t…
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Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible: Michael Kamber Returns – NYTimes.com
Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible How does it feel to be a photojournalist preparing for an assignment that’s left a friend of yours badly injured? Michael Kamber shares his thoughts. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/eyes-open-back-into-the-afghan-crucible/ The night before I leave Paris, Alissa J. Rubin, the Times’s bureau chief in Kabul, e-mails me to say…
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Unhurt by Two Mines, but Not Untouched: Damon Winter's Close Call in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com
Unhurt by Two Mines, but Not Untouched In the middle of photographing for the “Year at War” series, Damon Winter was confronted by choices that could have made the difference between life or death. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/unhurt-by-two-mines-but-not-untouched/ It was probably the toughest situation I’ve ever been in as a photographer. When the first mine…
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The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square – ProPublica
The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square How saturation media coverage of the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square fueled the perception that the war had been won and diverted attention from what in reality was just the start of a long and costly conflict. via…
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The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto
Link: I was especially interested in this discussion because an old colleague of Scott and mine, Daniel Etter, recently completed an embed himself with a US Medevac unit and worked on his story Medevac, which we are also featuring in this post. I thought to ask him what his view was on the current hubbub,…
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Conflict Zone: A groundbreaking look at war
Link: CONFLICT ZONE is a collection of images from the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, captured by some of the world’s leading combat photographers and journalists.
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12 Must See Stories about Covering Conflict – MultimediaShooter
Link: 12 thoughtful, harsh and heartfelt stories around the subject of war. Stories whose content and multimedia delivery should not be missed.
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Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Two Other NY Times Journalists Missing In Libya
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/ The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter…
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Getty's John Moore On Covering "Epic" Battles In Libya, Arab World
Link: Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya – might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out…
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Atrocity exhibition | Xeni Jardin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Atrocity exhibition | Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin: The internet is generating new sources of shockingly graphic images of conflict, which the media have to figure out how to use via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/04/digital-media-xeni-jardin The internet is generating new sources of shockingly graphic images of conflict, which the media have to figure out how to use
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Embedistan: Unembedded vs. Embedded
Embedistan: Unembedded vs. Embedded Aside from the long list of tactical information we can’t report or photograph, the soldiers and commanding officers censor themselves. They are afraid of the repercussions of saying the wrong thing, and are on the lookout for journalists with an agenda. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/embedistan-unembedded-vs-embedded/ I have spent six months…
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Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya Photograph by Matt Stuart.Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer, was killed today while covering the conflict in Misrata, Libya. “Tim died about two hours ago,” said Peter N. Bouckaert, of Human Rights Wat via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/tim-hetherington-41-killed-in-libya.html As recently as yesterday, Hetherington tweeted about “indiscriminate shelling”…
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Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya
Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before bei