10 Images That Shaped The Career Of A Photojournalist Who Founded The Bronx Documentary Center
“If you’re committed, you went all the way.”
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“If you’re committed, you went all the way.”
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How does it feel to be a photojournalist preparing for an assignment that’s left a friend of yours badly injured? Michael Kamber shares his thoughts.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/eyes-open-back-into-the-afghan-crucible/
Though you were in New York, thousands of miles away from where the two were killed, you immediately publicly criticized these photographers—both with decades of experience—for their own deaths.
Your Facebook post reads, “Four guys hit with the same round were too close together.” In fact, they may have been climbing into a truck to retreat, they might have been helping wounded civilians, they might have been running for common shelter.
Michael Kamber is a photojournalist who has been working around the world since 1986; he has traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, the Sudan, Haiti,
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/04/interview-michael-kamber-on-photojournalism-ethics-and-the-altering-of-images/
Link: Photojournalists On War: The Untold Stories From Iraq – British Journal of Photography
Photojournalists On War is the result of five years of interviews with some of the world’s leading photojournalists. However, it’s also the fruit of Michael Kamber’s frustration over the harrowing images that were never shown or published before
Link: Photojournalists on War: Untold Stories from Iraq | Le Journal de la Photographie
As Dexter Filkins suggests in the introduction to his book Photographers on War, the war was the first and last of its kind. Michael Kamber is one of the witnesses of this conflict and its endless acts of cruelty.
“When you’re in a situation where ten car bombs explode on a daily basis for eight years straight, after a while it becomes no longer just another attack,” says Kamber. “It’s a challenge to keep documenting these daily tragedies, especially when the fighting is long-range, and at best we can capture only the consequences.”
A new book, “Photojournalists at War,” is an oral history of the Iraq war from the perspective of three dozen photojournalists who documented it from the front lines.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/photographers-oral-history-of-the-iraq-war/
An organization founded by friends of Tim Hetherington simulates real war-injury scenarios at the Bronx Documentary Center, complete with pools of blood, contorted limbs and frenetic movement amid smoke-clad air, in order to train photographers and journa
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/risc-training-bronx-documentary-center/
Link: Witnesses to War – NYTimes.com
Michael Kamber decided that someone had to gather all of his fellow photojournalists’ accounts and unpublished images in one place so there would be, in his words, “an accurate history.” So he took on the task himself and started formally recording his colleagues. He has collected 39 of these interviews in a book, “Photojournalists on War.”
When the war started, photojournalism did show its power to sway public opinion. But it was in those early years as well — in some of the same images — that we saw photojournalism’s failures.
On his latest tour of Afghanistan, the photojournalist Michael Kamber finds that the war is becoming more intricate and more complicated.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/deeper-into-fathomless-afghanistan/
Four months after Neil Burgess famously called time of death on photojournalism, the debate is still raging. In fact, it’s been around for decades, as photographer Michael Kamber tells Phil Coomes of the BBC. “I remember arriving in New York in 1985 only to find that I’d arrived too late: photojournalism was dead. This was common knowledge – everybody said so.”
Link: Photojournalism: Wait, worry. Who cares? – British Journal of Photography
The following interview was conducted in Baghdad on Dec. 9, 2009, by Michael Kamber, a seasoned conflict photographer himself (“Hard Lessons From Somalia,” “A Long and Dangerous Road,” “Minders, Fixers, Troubles”). He is working on a book about photojournalism and war photography. This condensed version of their conversation begins with Mr. Silva describing his background.
Link: Joao Silva: ‘Acting Despite Fear.’ An Interview by Michael Kamber – NYTimes.com
A seasoned photojournalist acclaimed for his brilliant and sensitive coverage of conflict zones around the world tells the amazing story of his evolving career and his Leica connection
Link: An Interview with Michael Kamber of the New York Times « The Leica Camera
With the premier nearing of his documentary, “Restrepo,” Tim Hetherington takes time to talk with Michael Kamber about the future of photojournalism.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/behind-44/
By MICHAEL KAMBER
Photojournalist Joao Silva and I jumped in a car and searched the streets. We found U.S. soldiers towing a damaged Humvee. It had been struck by a roadside bomb. Days later we were nearly knocked off our feet by the Red Cross bombing, which killed scores. Bodies were scattered across an entire city block.
Joao, myself and Dexter Filkins were set upon by a crowd and nearly killed as we covered the attacks that morning.
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