maandag, januari 05, 2009
New York Times: gesprek over oorlogsfotografie in Irak
In late October Joao Silva, Max Becherer and Franco Pagetti, three highly experienced photographers who have covered every phase of the Iraq conflict, came together in the Baghdad Bureau of The New York Times during their rotations in Iraq. They took time out to discuss the conflict and how it has evolved since 2003. (Listen to their conversation.)
Their wide-ranging discussion covered issues of security, access, their relationships with western colleagues, Iraqi photographers and the Iraqi and American militaries. They also compared notes on their experiences when embedded with American troops, and of operating in plain sight of — and sometimes below the radar of — Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias.
They agreed that the Internet has changed all these relationships and working practices, not only tightening deadlines and increasing workloads but creating an increasing wariness toward photographers among gunmen as they have come to appreciate the speed and scope of the worldwide Web.
The conversation, hosted by The New York Times’s Baghdad Correspondent Stephen Farrell, is divided into three parts: 1. Security: ‘The Best of Times, the Worst of Times.’2. Iraqis and Embeds.3. The Internet.
Joao Silva is a Portuguese-born photographer who has worked for The New York Times as a contract photographer since 2000. The same year he was co-author of “The Bang-Bang Club,” a factual account of news photographers who covered the end of the apartheid era in South Africa. In 2005 he published “In The Company of God,” a photographic book on Iraqi Shiites during and after the 2003 invasion. He is based in Johannesburg. joaosilva.co.za
Max Becherer is a Cairo-based photojournalist who has covered Iraq for The New York Times since 2004. He has also worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Times. He has been represented by Polaris Images since 2004. maxbecherer.com
Franco Pagetti is an Italian photojournalist who has covered the Iraq war since January 2003, mainly on assignment for Time magazine. He has also worked in Afghanistan, the Middle East, the Balkans and Africa. He joined the VII Photo Agency in November 2007. viiphoto.com
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