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WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS- A Special Insight June 18, 2011

Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Ami Vitale, Gaza, Panos Pictures, Photojournalism, War , trackback

Photo Ami Vitale Panos Pictures
Photo Ami Vitale Panos Pictures

FROM A SPECIAL REPORT from THE GUARDIAN JUNE 2011
Features the work and reactions of Adam Ferguson, Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, Lynsey Adario, Joao Silva, Tom Stoddart, Greg Marinovich, Gary Knight, Shaul Shwartz, Eric Bouvet, Mads Nissen, Adam Dean, John D McHugh, Marco di Lauro, John Stanmeyer, Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv, Julie Jacobson and Ami Vitale.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/18/war-photographers-special-report

Ami Vitale records her experience:

I was photographing a funeral, and having spent most of the day with the women, I went to see the body being taken in. A man in the procession started screaming, “CIA agent” and pointing at me. I was surrounded by hundreds of angry men, screaming in my face, grabbing me. I was terrified, and thought, “This is it. I am going to die.” Suddenly I understood a mob. There’s no thinking, just passion.

A woman I’d spent the day with managed to pull me away. When I got home, I sat and cried and cried – she had saved my life. I stayed on in Palestine, but was much more cautious after that; have been ever since. That moment changed my perspective. No picture is worth it.

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