On February 22nd 2013, the one year anniversary of the deaths of legendary correspondent Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik, is launch the A Day Without News? Campaign. The web site is go live and invite people t...

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Imagine a war without photographs. Imagine a conflict zone where no correspondent ever dared venture. Imagine a humanitarian crisis that came and went without eliciting a flicker of video, not a second of audio, not a single news story, not a lone blogpost. Imagine war crime...

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On November 7, 1956, in Budapest, on a barricade erected to oppose invading Soviet troops, Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini was killed. He was 29 years old and a photographer for Paris Match. That was my earliest memory of a photographer who fell on the battlefield in the name of j...

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On april 21st 2011, Tim Hetherington was killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros was in a critical condition, but alive. Then just a few hours later, Chris died. Tim Hetherington, born in Liverpool, was 41 years old. He had received the World Press ...

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From Amsterdam on May 7th 2011, Jodi Bieber, a South African World Press prize winning photographer, made an emotional appeal to call attention to the disappearance of her colleague Anton Hammerl, 41. Unfortunately, on Friday May 20th, his family made a ...

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Chris Hondros was killed while on assignment in Libya on April 20th, 2011. He died a few hours after Tim Hetherington. Chris was 41 years old, member of Getty agency and had received the Robert Capa Award in 2006 for his work in Iraq. Chris Hondros (b. March 14, 1970) wa...

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European pressphoto agency (EPA) photographer Lucas Dolega was hit by a teargas grenade on the afternoon of Friday, January 14 2011, where, alongside four other photographers, he was covering the turmoil in the streets of Tunis. “It was 1:30pm when tension soared on Bourguiba avenue” comm...

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The journalists Rémi Ochlik of IP3 Press, and Marie Colvin of The Sunday Times, were killed in the line of duty the night of February 22, 2012, in the Baba Amro neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs. Several others were wounded or killed in the attack on the the press center.

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I’ve never found it so difficult to write. My dictionaries are useless. I can already hear you saying, “Sweet Blachère.” So instead I made a list of everything I loved about you. My angel, my love: I loved it when you made lists of things you wanted, and you wanted ...

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What drives photographers to risk their lives reporting on violence on the other side of the world? Their reasons are often complex, a combination of personal and political conviction, a desire to go beyond impersonal abstraction: “War, Battle, Death.” They all a...

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Although this exhibition is not strictly photographic, with paintings and videos also on display, it nevertheless offers a wide range of images, reminding viewers of the medium’s close ties to conflict. The works selected by curators Chuong-Dai Vo and Midori Yamamura are not e...

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“For personal reasons, I am stepping down from my position as Artistic Director of the Festival Photoreporter in Baie de Saint-Brieuc. I would like to thank everyone who has helped and supported me,” wrote Didier Rapaud on Monday, February 18, 2013. Reached by telephone, the fo...

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