{"id":78,"date":"2010-01-08T09:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=78"},"modified":"2010-01-08T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:43:30","slug":"grab-shots-afghanistan-photojournalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Grab Shots: Afghanistan Photojournalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/images\/seconddraft\/afghanistan.jpg\" alt=\"Afghanistan soldier \" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"367\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The battlefields change, the combatants differ, the technology improves, but some things about war remain constant: Soldiers are young, innocents die and photojournalists capture the carnage. <strong>Great human photography often emerges from terrible circumstances.<\/strong> Here are some examples from Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<p><strong>* The Long Haul: <\/strong>The Digital Journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/dirckhalstead.org\/issue0912\/read-intro.html\">has a piece <\/a>by photojournalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucianread.com\/main.html\">Lucian Reed<\/a> about his life and work in Aftghanistan. It begins: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been to Afghanistan eight times in the last 18 months. My apartment is slowly taking on the look of a caravanserai. I have more friends in Kabul than Manhattan. My mind is full of snippets of Dari, counterinsurgency strategy and half-remembered warlords, major and minor. My son \u2013 not yet quite born \u2013 will have a Pashto middle name. I make no claims to being an expert on the place but, God knows, I seem to love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Field Test, Under Fire: <\/strong>Freelance photojournalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danfungdennis.com\/\">Danfung Dennis<\/a> writes a technical piece on on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dslrnewsshooter.com\/2009\/10\/14\/photojournalist-danfung-dennis-how-i-cover-the-afghanistan-war-with-the-5dmkii\/\">DSLR News Shooter<\/a> about using the still and video capabilities of the Canon 5DmkII in Afghanistan. He starts: &#8220;The 5D Mark II is capable of unprecedented image quality, but since it is a stills camera, there are several limitations that I had to address before using this camera in a warzone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Getting Exisential in Afghanistan:<\/strong> Photojournalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrishondros.com\/\">Chris Hondros<\/a> trails a platoon of GI&#8217;s on a hunt for Taliban caves. Stuck halfway up a hillside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dscriber.com\/home\/565-deep-in-taliban-country-the-army-and-a-photojournalist.html\">he ponders<\/a>: &#8220;Why am I here? How did this happen? Why exactly am I hanging on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan this morning?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not in Army, I didn&#8217;t sign up for this. I should be back home, watching TV or canoodling in bed or having a strong espresso in Brooklyn. Or just about anywhere else.&#8221; (In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dscriber.com\/home\/565-deep-in-taliban-country-the-army-and-a-photojournalist.html\">dscriber<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Gallery of War: <\/strong>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlespaceonline.org\/index.shtml\">Battlespace<\/a>, a powerful online gallery of images from Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battlefields change, the combatants differ, the technology improves, but some things about war remain constant: Soldiers are young, innocents die and photojournalists capture the carnage. Great human photography often emerges from terrible circumstances. 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