January 12th, 2007
Good friend and NY Times photographer Michael Kamber has a newly designed website showcasing some of his work from the last few years.
Mike has worked extensively in Africa from east to west, as well as Iraq and Haiti, and has strong material up there well worth a look. Mike is one of a handful of photojournalists I know who also writes news reports on assignment – which is no mean feat when you are filing photos on a daily basis – and some of these reports are readable on the site.
I particularly like his “Children of War” project: (from his description)
“I never set out to photograph children of war, I simply looked at my photos one day and saw how many images showed children caught, often literally, in the crossfire”
Michael Kamber website
July 28th, 2006
I’ve been in Lebanon since the war started and have added a photo gallery titled “Lebanon War” containing some of my recent photographs. All were originally shot in colour but have been converted to black and white for this gallery.
Lebanon War photo gallery
June 5th, 2006
(Stefan Zaklin/EPA)
The New York Times has an interesting article enitled “Show Me The Bodies” comparing war photography in Iraq with that in Vietnam, specifically with regard to images of dead U.S. soldiers being published in U.S. newspapers, and contains comments from photographers Stefan Zaklin, Ashley Gilbertson & Chris Hondros.
Choice quote from Stefan, discussing why a picture he took of a U.S. captain who was shot and killed entering a house in Fallujah (above) was published in Europe but not in America:
“There’s really no way to know why this image wasn’t published at all in the United States,” he wrote in the blog Fabrica Forma Fotografia. “Every editor — whether a photo editor or their superior — who made the decision not to publish this picture had a reason. They might all sound different after one listen. But listen again, and you will hear the grinding wheels of the free market turning American journalism into dust.”
Digging up his original blog articles reveals an extensive and well-thought-out two articles, which are well worth a read:
That Picture – Part I
That Picture – Part II
December 9th, 2005
American Journalism Review has a good & lengthy article about the dangers facing journalists working in Iraq – both on the threats posed by U.S. forces themselves – as well as the dangers from insurgents, kidnapping gangs and the general security situation.
December 6th, 2005
My predecessor at AP in the Middle East, John Moore, who is now with Getty Images, has a nice article in December’s Digital Journalist about his experiences photographing “The Widows of Dujail” – the women left behind after Saddam Hussein’s forces allegedly rounded up their fathers, husbands and sons in retaliation for a 1982 assassination attempt against him. With the Saddam Hussein trial starting to gear up – some of which I recently photographed – it’s a timely piece and some nice photography.
Also in the issue is a feature piece by Philip Robertson based on the new book “Unembedded” about working as a journalist in Iraq, and one by Ron Steinman on Paul Fusco’s photographs of funerals of American soldiers who died in Iraq, which was written about in a previous post on this site.
