Committee to Protect Journalists

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A slide show of images of the unfolding crisis in Iraq: http://nyr.kr/1ngDdJZ

Top: Armed Kurdish fighters take security precautions on the outskirts of Mosul. Photograph by Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency/Getty.
Bottom: Traffic from Mosul queues at a Kurdish checkpoint on June 14th, in Kalak, Iraq. Photograph by Dan Kitwood/Getty.

“The art of storytelling is not limited to mere journalism. In fact, it revels in the improbable and the unexpected, even as its focus remains on the real.”

Robert Coover discusses his story in this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/1l4IVgS (via newyorker)

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The twenty-six-year-old French photojournalist Camille Lepage, who moved to the Central African Republic last year, was killed while on assignment. Take a look at a slide show of her recent work: http://nyr.kr/T3fFQ9

Top: October 4, 2013. Bangui, Central African Republic. At the general headquarters of FOMAC, the Multinational Force of Central Africa.
Bottom: November 18, 2013. Internally displaced Christians in Bossangoa, Central African Republic.
Photographs by Camille Lepage/Polaris.