Son Of War

Freelance photojournalist Ahmed Deeb has been traveling to Syria for years. He’s one of the few journalists still actively documenting the conflict. While his images of fighters and everyday Syrians alike travel the globe, his work is poorly paid and highly dangerous. The photographs above are just a sample of his award winning work.

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bronxdoc:

Come celebrate the life and work of photojournalist Tim Hetherington on the anniversary of his death in Libya in 2011. The BDC and RISC Training will screen the award-winning film, “WHICH WAY IS THE FRONT LINE FROM HERE? ” to be followed by a Q&A with director Sebastian Junger and BDC director Mike Kamber, both close friends of Mr. Hetherington. TIm helped create the BDC; his life is a daily inspiration to us.

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Photographer Luca Locatelli’s “War-Craft” photos document a conflict photography workshop in the hills of Andalusia.

Eugene Reznik for Hopes&Fears:

A staggering number of photojournalists covering conflict were killed in the field over the last year. The Associated Press alone lost four photographers. And freelancers are even more vulnerable. They’re often looking for the “bang bang” shots to gain recognition and assignments, but many lack the resources for the kind of hostile zone training which may prevent the worst possible outcome from an encounter with crossfire, kidnapping, and IEDs.

How do you teach war photography? In the mountains of Andalusia, in the south of Spain, Jason P. Howe runs an unusual kind of workshop. The 15-year conflict zone veteran, with a team of volunteers, takes aspiring war photographers on a 7-day training course, both practical and theoretical, from Battlefield First Aid and IED awareness to editing and ethics of war journalism…

Above: Barbara Doux, French photographer, covered in fake blood which had squirted from the body of the ‘casualty’, is shouting for help to one of the other workshop students close to her. Luca Locatelli/INSTITUTE

gettyimages:

Photographers We’ve Lost In Conflict Zones And Their Work
via @Buzzfeed

James Foley is just the latest photojournalist to be killed while covering the world’s most dangerous wars. Here we look at some of his fellow journalists and their work.

Read the article via @Buzzfeed

Listen to an interview with Getty Images photojournalist Chris Hondros broadcast on NPR on March 26, 2007, as part of the interview ‘A War Photographer’s View of Iraq’

(Photo: A libyan rebel fighter runs up a burning stairwell during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from an upstairs room during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 20, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Rebel forces assaulted the downtown positions of troops loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi April 20, briefly forcing them back over a key bridge and trapping several in a building that fought back instead of surrendering, firing on the rebels in the building and seriously wounding two of them during the standoff. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

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Q: Today you saw the children lying on the beach. What was it like to see this but be unable to help?

Tyler Hicks: It was clear that these children were beyond help. I was very close to three of the four children who were killed and it was clear that they had been killed instantly. Had there been some way to help them I certainly would have. Because Gaza is so small ambulance crews arrive almost immediately when something happens.

Image: A civilian carries one of four Palestinian cousins killed by an Israeli air strike while playing on a beach in Gaza on July 16, 2014, by Tyler Hicks via The New York Times.

Read Tyler Hicks’ eyewitness account of the Gaza beach scene where four boys died in shelling and the Times’ interview with Hicks about reporting from Gaza. 

(via futurejournalismproject)

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Photographs from Aleppo, Syria, in 2013, by Sebastiano Tomada. We’re pleased to announce that Sebastiano, who has received several awards for his work from Syria and beyond, has joined Reportage by Getty Images as a represented photographer. See more of his work on the Reportage website.

Sebastiano Tomada was born in 1986 in New York City. After growing up in Florence, Italy, he returned to New York to attend Parsons University and the New School, graduating with a double major in media studies and photography in 2010. Traveling extensively for publications in both the United States and Europe, Sebastiano’s work focuses on conflicts in some of the world’s most volatile regions, particularly the Middle East and Asia. He has received several prestigious honors, including awards from Pictures of the Year International, World Press Photo and the the 2013 Humanitarian International Red Cross (ICRC) Visa d’or. He splits his time between New York City and Beirut.

Remembering Camille Lepage

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Before-and-after photos from 9 cities show the devastating effects of war

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