Tag: Christoph Bangert

  • Inside the Diary of a War Photographer  – Feature Shoot

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    Inside the Diary of a War Photographer  – Feature Shoot “I believe I’m now the longest-running Iraq/Afghanistan NYT-rotation photographer,” Christoph Bangert wrote in his journal on June 24th, 2013, on a plane to Istanbul. “Everybody else stopped covering wars or… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/05/inside-the-diary-of-a-war-photographer/ “I believe I’m now the longest-running Iraq/Afghanistan NYT-rotation photographer,” Christoph Bangert…

  • Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station – NYTimes.com

    Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station – NYTimes.com

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    Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station Christoph Bangert wanted to try something new for portraits he was taking in Afghanistan. He used film. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/shooting-film-in-an-afghan-police-station/ Christoph Bangert took some highly unusual photographic accessories with him to Afghanistan earlier this year. He’d never used them professionally before. And their presence in his camera…

  • Photos of the Absurdity of Modern Warfare | VICE | United Kingdom

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    Photos of the Absurdity of Modern Warfare Christoph Bangert’s new photo book, Hello Camel, exposes the surreal and darkly comic side of today’s wars. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/cristoph-bangerts-hello-camel-captures-the-absurdity-of-modern-warfare Having taken on the darker issues surrounding war reporting and our perceptions of conflict, Christoph Bangert’s new book, Hello Camel, exposes the surreal and blackly comic side of…

  • Christoph Bangert, War Porn – The Eye of Photography

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    Christoph Bangert, War Porn My apartment is both full of books and people passing through it. Not one of them has flipped open Christoph Bangert’s War Porn without slamming it closed with a shudder. War Porn is not made to be flipped through absentmindedly. Its format and raw cardboard cover make it an unappealing coffee table…

  • Day by Day: A Personal Story From Japan

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    After a 12-hour drive we reach Sendai, with an empty tank. We have been listening to the radio all day. Reactor No. 3 has blown up. NHK Radio is playing a slow instrumental version of “Strawberry Fields Forever.” NHK is a news station and never plays music. Not a good sign. I get phone calls…

  • CHRISTOPH BANGERT: 'Nobody is trying to get rich here' | Emphas.is Blog

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    German photographer CHRISTOPH BANGERT is part of a new generation of photojournalists that came of age post-9/11 and well into the internet era. “The difference with former generations is perhaps that we take a broader view. We know that it is not enough to have good pictures; you have to be good at communicating too.”…

  • Keeping a Visual Diary in a War Zone

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    Keeping a Visual Diary in a War Zone – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Christoph Bangert adds: When I spent about two months on assignment for The New York Times in Baghdad this year, I proposed to Stephen Farrell, who was in charge of At War’s predecessor, the Baghdad Bureau blog, that I post one…

  • Invisible in Baghdad

    Invisible in Baghdad

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    Christoph Bangert, from the Digital Journalist: There are maybe eight or nine foreign photographers still trying to cover this conflict from the civilian side. I am by far not the bravest, most committed, talented nor longest-serving of these photographers; I am just one of them. The majority of the pictures that are coming out of…