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
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
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 assignment to chase or seek out what we in the photojournalism world call “bang bang.” This time, bang bang found us.
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 McCullin, a man intent on paying public penance. Most photographers would be proud of the honors and accolades showered on Mr. McCullin at Perpignan’s Visa Pour l’Image festival this week.
Instead, he recoiled in shame, as if the words had wounded him.
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 the Associated Press tells this familiar but still compelling story in rich, visual detail, providing a thorough look at the daily life of US and South Vietnamese soldiers in the jungles and rice paddies, and on city streets. The book’s 300-plus photos, all from the AP archives, fill in the moments between the Pulitzer-winning images.
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 or the violence caused by drug cartels in Mexico
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 has previously worked for The Associated Press. He spoke to James Estrin from Gaza City on Saturday evening
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.
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 New York Times
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.
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 on and morphs and changes and grows, Nish Nalbandian’s hard-hitting documentary photographs of the conflict continue to resonate more than a year after they were made. Assistant editor Alexander Strecker reached out to Nalbandian to find out more about what drew him to Syria to make these photographs.
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 Venezia: an overview of the dramatic nature of the events, focusing both on historical perspective and collective memory.
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 as something of a triage unit, with mild to serious cases handled on site and the worst injuries, including those requiring surgery, sent elsewhere.
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 the deadline, and sporadic violence continues even now, more than a week later. Some Ukrainian forces claim they are unable to withdraw, as the Russian-backed rebels are still shelling their positions. Rebels captured the small town of Debaltseve, a strategically important rail hub, just as the cease-fire was set to begin.
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 of Displacement” tells the stories of 12 families and individuals who are among the 1.5 million internally displaced people who have flooded into the Kurdistan region of Iraq since ISIS began to claim territory and terrorize civilian populations in the country.
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” was reissued this year by Aperture.
Mr. McCullin, who is represented by Contact Press Images, spoke this week with Michael Kamber, who has photographed conflict in Africa and the Middle East for The New York Times and is the founder of the Bronx Documentary Center. Their conversation has been edited.