Although Bryan Denton has been on assignment in Libya for six months, he had yet to see Tripoli until Sunday night. Mr. Denton wasn’t the only one surprised by the rebels’ speedy advance.
On Sunday night, the freelance photographer Bryan Denton, on assignment for The New York Times in Libya, entered the heart of Tripoli alongside advancing rebel fighters. For Mr. Denton, who has been covering the war from the perspective of the rebel fighters for six months, the experience felt almost mythical.
“I was lucky enough to have been friends with Chris, which makes this accolade a bittersweet motivation to keep pushing my work forward, and to do so with the kindness, grace and spirit that Chris embodied both in his work and in life,” Denton said in a prepared statement.
Covering the chaos of the Libyan civil war in 2011 transformed Bryan Denton. He began the war as a promising 27-year-old photojournalist and provided some of the most vivid coverage of the conflict for The New York Times. But it’s not his personal successes that stick with Mr. Denton — it’s the victims he photographed, and the deaths of several colleagues, especially his friend Chris Hondros.
Touching on a missing generation of mid-career journalists, new standards of safety and liability, and the increasing importance of serial storytelling, a veteran photojournalist offers wisdom and insight in this wide-ranging interview
Freelance photographer Bryan Denton has spent most of his career photographing news in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Now a mid-career photojournalist, he is one of the few who makes a living on assignments. Blink’s Laurence Cornet chats with him about the evolution of journalism in the region, the current challenges for young photographers on the field and his future plans
Bryan Denton has been making conflict images for a decade. He is still alive. Thats down to some luck and a lot of good advice from experienced freelancers. But the industry is changing and so are the chances for young shooters.
when Bryan Denton, a native Californian, thought about getting outside his comfort zone for a forthcoming photo essay, he settled on a truly exotic locale.
Bryan’s height — somewhere north of 6 feet 6 inches, closer to 7 feet with helmet and boots — is both a perennial joke and a source of wonder among those who cover war and know him. Why would anyone so damn tall take on a line of work where, on many days, you want to be small? Let’s be clear. Bryan is a big target. Correction: he is a very big target. He looks like a walking sheet of plywood out there.
