Getting Shot by an RPG: My first reflection on conflict photography
Like all of my friends and colleagues, I’m mourning the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros as well as hoping for the quick recovery of Guy Martin and Michael Christopher Brown. I’m posting the following video to share a few of my thoughts and experiences in covering the Libyan conflict as a photographer. The [...]
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I’ve written about this a little already, but let me just repeat how hard it is to report conflict in still images. The other day I went out with an ambulance crew in Misrata, Libya and ended up covering a street fight for 2 and half hours. I realized as soon as I got there [...]
Picture of the Day: The Adams Family
Congratulations to Reuters on making me laugh so hard with what would normally be a really boring photo. This honestly looks like something out of the Adams family with the enormous Bahraini foreign minister on the left and the two headed NATO monster on the right.
The Toll of the Libyan War
After some very insightful advice from the head of TIME video and quite a number of edits, my video on the psychological toll of the Libyan war is now up online with TIME.com. Have a look at it here
Libyan Hipster: The Williamsburg Warrior
That’s right, ladies and gentlemen. Hipsters are officially everywhere. A few days ago I spotted this phenomenon on the front-line of fighting between pro and anti-Gaddafi fighters.
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