Tag Archives: Conflict

RISC Training for Journalists

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RISC trains and equips freelance journalists in all media to treat life-threatening injuries on the battlefield. Freelancers comprise the vast majority of those who cover wars, and consequently make up the vast majority of deaths and injuries. Surviving a gunshot or shrapnel wound is often a matter of doing the right thing in the first few minutes, and our training focuses on that brief, critical period of time. It is our hope to make first aid training the industry norm – like having a flak jacket or sat phone – and to prevent unnecessary deaths in a job that is so vital to human dignity and human rights.

Links:
RISC – Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues
Huffington Post Article
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
International Federation of Journalists

Insurance for Freelance Journalists

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Choosing the right insurance policy is essential if you work in a conflict zone.

Low Cost Insurance for Photojournalists – PDN Photo District News

What To Expect If You Are Injured On Assignment – PDN Photo District News

Insurance for Freelance Journalists – Reporters Without Borders

‘Mission Insurance Agreement for Freelance Reporters and Journalists Reporters Without Borders is offering freelance reporters the opportunity to take out an insurance policy through them. Too often, reporters are assigned to cover conflicts – in increasing number – without insurance. Exorbitant costs and a lack of information are the main reasons. Reporters Without Borders signed an agreement with Escapade Insurances to offer competitively-priced coverage to freelance reporters’.

Membership with Reporters Without Borders is mandatory to purchase insurance through the organization. This insurance is valid for journalists of any nationality traveling outside their country of habitual residence. To purchase insurance with Reporters Without Borders and/or request a quote, write to insurance@rsf.org or assurance@rsf.org

Description of Coverage   RSF Membership

Tim Hetherington (1970 -2011) and Chris Hondros (1970 -2011)

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Very sad news – photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed while covering the conflict, between Libyan rebels and armed forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, in Misrata on April 20th. Photojournalists Guy Martin and Michael Christopher Brown were injured during the attack. My thoughts go out to their families and friends.

Diary (2010) from Tim Hetherington on Vimeo.

‘Diary’ is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It’s a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media. – Tim Hetherington (1970 – 2011)

Links:

Remembering Chris Hondros – The Wall Street Journal
Chris Hondros, at work in Libya – LENS NYTimes.com
Parting Glance: Chris Hondros – LENS NYTimes.com
Chris Hondros: A Life Behind the Lens MSNBC
Parting Glance: Tim Hetherington – LENS NYTimes.com
BJP – British Journal of Photography
In Memorium Tim Hetherington The New Yorker
Sebastian Junger remembers Tim Hetherington – Vanity Fair
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya – Vanity Fair
Tim Hetherington in Memorium: TIME Lightbox
The Guardian
On The Media: War photographers change their focus – Los Angeles Times
Guy Marin, 27, becomes a veteran – LENS NYTimes.com
Only The Good Die Young – Burn Magazine / David Alan Harvey
Last Picture

Condition ONE

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Condition ONE is a mobile media technology company developing the tools and platform to combine filmmaking, photojournalism and mobile devices to pioneer powerful immersive experiences.

Danfung Dennis’ thoughts via DSLR News Shooter

But, this visual language is dying. The traditional outlets are collapsing. In the midst of this upheaval, we must invent a new language. Condition ONE combines the power of the still image and storytelling, the emotional engagement of tactile experiences, and the compelling nature of being an active participant in an effort to pioneer a new language that is so immersive, that it will shake viewers out of their numbness to traditional media and provide them a powerful emotional experience. Instead of opening a window to glimpse another world, we are attempting to bring the viewer into that world.

Condition One
Facebook Condition One
Washington Post article

Dili, Timor Leste 1999 -2011

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I have been trying to track down people I had photographed during East Timor’s fight for independence in 1999. The project’s aim is to find the survivors and continue to tell their stories, a task made even more difficult by the fact I had made the decision not to record names at that time, not wanting my notes to fall into the wrong hands and place people at risk. It was a dangerous time for everyone. The other day, two close friends, UNMIT photographers Martine Perret and Dino Soares, graciously managed to track down a family I had photographed in Dili back then. The photograph shows the family having just returned to the burnt out remains of their home. It was tense, as rampaging Militia, alongside Indonesian soldiers, were continuing to torch nearby buildings. I was immediately struck by that look of concern on the father’s face. I took a photograph and moved on. On March 22nd, 2011, it was an absolute pleasure to be formally introduced to Marsal Guterres and his family, wife Tereza Da Silva Almeida Dos Santos, daughter Martina Margarida Guterres, 13 years old, and son, Jacinto Guterres Da Silva, 11.

Photograph by Dino Soares

Bedrooms of the Fallen – Ashley Gilbertson / VII Network

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‘The purpose of this project is to honor these fallen – not simply as soldiers, marines, airmen and seamen, but as sons, daughters, sisters and brothers – and to remind us that before they fought, they lived, and they slept, just like us, at home’ – Ashley Gilbertson

Bedrooms of the Fallen

Bedrooms of the Fallen – Kickstarter Project

Photographers on Afghanistan

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I draw inspiration from my colleagues, and when they do something powerful, I think it is important to spread the word.

Adam Ferguson – The Sydney Morning Herald
A.K. Kimoto – The New York Times

David Guttenfelder – National Geographic

Louie Palu – The Virginia Quarterly Review

Lynsey Addario – National Geographic

Stephen Dupont – Generation AK teaser


Balazs Gardi – The Valley

Danfung Dennis – To Hell and Back

Support João Silva Photojournalist

Embedistan – Embed links

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Oxford English Dictionary

“Even before a magazine journalist brought down Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the institutionalized practice of journalists moving and living with military units was one of the most controversial legacies of America’s 21st-century wars” – Stephen Farrell / NYTimes.com

RESTREPO – A film by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington

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RESTREPO is a must see feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Once you’ve seen the film, check out ‘War’ by Sebastian Junger and ‘Infidel’ by Tim Hetherington.

Also of interest is Tim Hetherington’s Sleeping Soldiers and Diary (2010)