Category: War
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Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post
Link: These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
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Philip Jones Griffiths Maelstrom
Link: The exhibition Maelstrom of photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths at Howard Greenberg gallery in New York covers his work on the Vietnam War and the conflict in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
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War Photographers Change Focus
Link: I have talked a lot over the years to war photographers about their work. But I had to wonder this week when it becomes too much. In several interviews, some of the best visual artists of this generation talked about how they realized it was time to step away. They’re still focused on conflict…
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The Most Beautiful Girl They’ve Seen Or The Embedded Photojournalist Gets Picked Up!
I have argued this again and again, and have been reviled and criticized for it again and again. And
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War Photographers' Retreat: August In Massachusetts
Link: A retreat for photojournalists whose work takes them to wars, conflicts, and disasters. In honor of Tim Hetherington.
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War Is Boring
Link: In this very personal story Adam Ferguson gives us an unedited account of what it is like to be a combat photographer. He openly discusses what his feelings are about the troops, war photography, Afghanistan, and combat in general.
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Adam Ferguson: War Is Boring
Link: To prevent that, Righthaven is asking U.S. District Judge Philip Pro to stay his decision requiring Righthaven pay $34,000 in legal fees to an online commenter it wrongly sued for infringement.
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‘Conflict Zone’ Showcases Photography From Iraq and Afghanistan
Two Wars, Seen Many Ways Originally conceived as a fund-raiser for Joao Silva, “Conflict Zone” — which opens in New York on Friday — has become a collaborative effort to show the humanity in war. The New York show is dedicated to Chris Hondros, who believed in photographing shared human experiences. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/two-wars-seen-many-ways/…
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Tom Stoddart: The Siege of Sarajevo
Link: On this 20th anniversary of the conflict in Bosnia, Tom Stoddart shares the story of the siege he documented.
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The New York Times’s War Photojournalists Showcased at Photoville
Bringing Photographs of War to the Brooklyn Waterfront The New York Times spotlights a decade of war photojournalism at Photoville, an immersive photo exhibition opening today in Brooklyn Bridge Park. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/exhibiting-a-decade-of-war/ Photographers for The New York Times have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning and continue to do…
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For soldier’s family, heartache without end
Link: In one of the most iconic battlefield images ever captured on film, two wounded Operation Desert Storm soldiers in an evacuation helicopter have just learned who’s in the bloody body bag at their feet. It’s their friend and Catherine’s high school sweetheart, Andy Alaniz. The photo eventually helped Catherine learn the truth about how…
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Erin Trieb’s Homecoming Project: Capturing War Through Veteran Tales
Link: The Homecoming Project, which began when Trieb spent months with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division after their return from Afghanistan, documents the struggles many troops face when they return home from combat. “Somehow, we’ve got to have a conversation about these two wars in a way that’s palpable for the public and in…
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Moises Saman Photographs Syria’s Descent Into Civil War
Link: The bombing in Damascus “emboldened the rebels to go on the offensive, for a moment suggesting that a perfect storm would lead to the imminent fall of the regime,” Saman wrote to me from his home base in Cairo. “Here we are a month later, with people dying at a rate of about sixty…
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Aleppo: Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini
Link: As I entered the city, the noise of the shelling and aerial strikes brushed past my ears, and smoke from rooftops engulfed the skyline. I was surprised to find that daily life kept on going between the heavy crashes of nearby mortar fire.
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Journalists face conflict when covering Israel-Gaza attacks
Link: Journalists have been wounded, censored and prevented from leaving the Gaza strip while covering five days of air strikes and bombings from both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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Reports From the Field Death as a companion
Link: What drives photographers to risk their lives reporting on violence on the other side of the world? Their reasons are often complex, a combination of personal and political conviction, a desire to go beyond impersonal abstraction: “War, Battle, Death.”
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Jerome Delay: Photographing Mali’s Invisible War
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ everything was designed from the start to make access virtually impossible. To get to Sevare, I had to bypass five Malian checkpoints, whose instructions were to turn back any and every journalist on the road. Thanks to Land Cruisers and GPS,…
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Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency
Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/iraq-wars-10th-anniversary-occupation-and-insurgency/100476/ ‘s entry focuses on the period during which the majority of the war took place, after the 2003 invasion and just prior to the 2011 withdrawal
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In Memory – The War in Iraq, Ten Years On
Link: Peter Turnley covered the first Gulf War in 1991, and was present from the first day of this latest war in Iraq which started yesterday March 19, 2003. I worked as an unembedded photojournalist in Iraq for the first five weeks of the war and spent much time in southern Iraq, near Basra, arriving…