Category: War

  • Syria in Ruins

    Syria in Ruins

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    Syria in Ruins via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/syria-in-ruins/100488/ The following photographs come from across Syria, taken over the past six weeks, showing just some of the devastation in Aleppo, Deir al-Zor, Homs, Deraa, Idlib, and Damascus

  • Beyond the Pulitzer Prizes, the realities of covering the Syrian civil war

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    Link: Six staff and freelance photographers working for The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse have won this year’s Pulitzer Prizes in photography for their work and commitment while covering the Syrian civil war. BJP speaks with Javier Manzano and Narciso Contreras about the realities of working in one of today’s most dangerous conflicts

  • War Through a Woman’s Eyes

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    Link: Some of today’s top conflict photographers just happen to be women. We spoke with a handful of these photojournalists about their experiences—and how they differ from their male colleagues’

  • Veteran photographer recounts his first Afghan war assignment

    Veteran photographer recounts his first Afghan war assignment

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    Veteran photographer recounts his first Afghan war assignment Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist Michel du Cille discusses his experience documenting the Afghan military’s preparation for the withdrawal of coalition forces. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/07/16/veteran-photographer-recounts-his-first-afghan-war-assignment/ My (Michel du Cille) recent trip to Afghanistan was in a word, challenging. I did not set out on my first Afghan war…

  • The “Shame of Memory” Haunts a War Photographer

    The “Shame of Memory” Haunts a War Photographer

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    The “Shame of Memory” Haunts a War Photographer With the looming crisis in Syria as backdrop, conflict photographers and photo editors of multiple generations debate the value and power of the imagery that emerges from war. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/the-shame-of-memory-haunting-war-photographers/ A 13th-century church is a fitting location for the exhibition of war photographs by Don…

  • Iconic and Unseen War Photos From Vietnam and Iraq

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    Amazing war photos from Vietnam and Iraq Two recent books offer stunning images and firsthand accounts of photojournalists in conflict zones. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/10/photos-vietnam-real-war-photojournalists/ For every Vietnam War image seared into our memory, there are thousands more, documenting our two-decade slog through an ultimately unwinnable conflict. Vietnam: the Real War, a Photographic History by…

  • Louie Palu: Kandahar Journals — zPhotoJournal

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    Link: Enter: Louie Palu. By Louie’s count, he’s had seven tours of duty…in Afghanistan alone. He estimates his combat time has been about 18 months over the last 5 years with 3 to 6 month embeds not being uncommon. And in between those embeds, he’s covered wars of a different kind like prisoners at Guantanamo Bay…

  • I Could Show you Photos from the Air Strike on the Beit Hanoun U.N. School Yesterday. Or…. — BagNews

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    Link: I don’t want to talk about iconic photos. It’s too easy to distance oneself by turning the photo into an object. Of course, that’s unavoidable here in our daily exploration of the role and the meaning of pictures in our visual culture and our visual media.  Just not this time.

  • Photographing on the Ground in Gaza

    Photographing on the Ground in Gaza

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    Photographing on the Ground in Gaza Sergey Ponomarev has encountered a war routine in Gaza, documenting the destruction and casualties of the latest conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/gaza-city-sergey-ponomarev-israel-photos/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 Sergey Ponomarev, 33, is a freelance photographer covering the conflict in Gaza on assignment for The New York Times. He grew up in Moscow and Ireland and…

  • Photographers Cover Opposing Sides of Israel-Gaza War – LightBox

    Photographers Cover Opposing Sides of Israel-Gaza War – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As the death toll rises in the war between Israel and Hamas, TIME LightBox profiles two photographers who have spent weeks covering the opposing sides: Andrew Katz interviewed Oliver Weiken of European Pressphoto Agency and Olivier Laurent spoke with Getty Images’ Andrew Burton.

  • Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed) — BagNews

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    Link: The gist of the argument is that Hicks and the other Western photographers could easily seek out and photograph Hamas fighters, and thus balance out the coverage, but they have been too bullied and intimidated to do so.

  • Photos From Both Sides of the Gaza Conflict

    Photos From Both Sides of the Gaza Conflict

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    Photos From Both Sides of the Gaza Conflict Two photographers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, described how they cover the current conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/photos-from-both-sides-of-the-gaza-conflict/ Uriel Sinai is an Israeli freelance photographer covering Israel during the current war, while Wissam Nassar, a Palestinian freelance photographer, has covered the Gaza side of the conflict for The…

  • Anastasia Taylor-Lind: The Most Frightening Thing About War | PROOF

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    Link: Anastasia Taylor-Lind spent several weeks in August 2014 photographing in Ukraine as fighting intensified in the eastern part of the country between the Ukrainian Army and Russian-backed separatists. Her aim was to document the war as part of her ongoing Negative Zero project, focused on depopulation in Europe. She shares her experience with Proof.

  • Nish Nalbandian – On the Ground in Syria: A Photojournalist’s Perspective | LensCulture

    Nish Nalbandian – On the Ground in Syria: A Photojournalist’s Perspective | LensCulture

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    On the Ground in Syria: A Photojournalist’s Perspective – Photographs by and interview with Nish Nalbandian | LensCulture Documentary filmmaker turned photojournalist Nish Nalbandian speaks about the importance of narrative, the “flow state” of working in conflict zones and the state of the photo industry today via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/nish-nalbandian-on-the-ground-in-syria-a-photojournalist-s-perspective As the Syrian Civil War drags…

  • Venezia defends itself, 1915-1918, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venezia – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: A century after the beginning of First World War, “Venice defends itself 1915 – 1918”, curated by Claudio Franzini and based in Palazzo Fortuny, tells us the unusual situation of the city at the time of the Great War with 350 original photos from the Archivio Storico Fotografico of the Fondazione Musei Civici di…

  • Syria’s ‘hospital’ of horrors – Correspondent

    Syria’s ‘hospital’ of horrors – Correspondent

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ The “hospital” where I took these pictures is a makeshift clinic set up in the basement of a building, managed by the Unified Medical Office of Douma, which was created in 2013 to coordinate private medical care in the area. The hospital treats the war wounded from throughout Gouta and serves…

  • Watching a Shaky Cease-Fire in Ukraine – The Atlantic

    Watching a Shaky Cease-Fire in Ukraine – The Atlantic

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    Watching a Shaky Cease-Fire in Ukraine ​Earlier this month, a cease-fire agreement was signed in Minsk, Belarus, after long talks between leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France. Heavy fighting ensued right before the deadline, and sporadic violence continues even now, more than a week later. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/shaky-cease-fire-in-ukraine/385783/ Heavy fighting ensued right before…

  • Capa’s Demons – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    Link: Capa only shot 11 frames of the landing while staying at the most only 30 minutes on the beach. Coleman’s conclusion is  that he must have panicked under the heavy deadly fire and quickly took shelter in a barge returning to England

  • Iraqi Photographers Launch Ambitious Group Project About Millions Displaced by War

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    Link: Metrography, an agency founded in 2009 to represent and train Iraqi photojournalists, yesterday launched a website for an ambitious group project that emphasizes the human cost of the ongoing war in Iraq and the greater Middle East, which has entered a new phase since the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014. “Map…

  • Don McCullin at War – The New York Times

    Don McCullin at War – The New York Times

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    Don McCullin at War The legendary photographer counsels those seeking conflict: look close to home at the social wars being waged every day. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/don-mccullin-at-war/ The documentary film “McCullin” by Jacqui Morris had its American debut at the Museum of Modern Art this week, and an updated version of the book “Don McCullin”…