May 19, 2012 at 5:21pm
Curse of the Black Gold by Ed Kashi, also via MediaStorm
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GAIA Kosovo wants to raise awareness about human rights of Roma people through different projects, such as this one, where volunteers use photography to achieve this aim.
May 18, 2012 at 2:40pm
Six months before it ended, the war in Bosnia was brought home to the foreign television journalists in the form of an enormous rocket that exploded in the courtyard of the Sarajevo television building. Fired from a Bosnian Serb stronghold, the explosive—actually a gravity bomb strapped to rockets—destroyed the offices of two international television agencies as well as the European Broadcasting Union. Most of the wounded were foreign journalists. Faridoun Hemani, a Canadian friend employed by Worldwide Television News, was filmed walking around with blood pouring down his face, trying to guide others out of the building. “We heard something hit the TV station, but it didn’t sound like a big deal. Then suddenly, everything came falling down on us,” recalled Margaret Moth, a brave CNN camerawoman who had lost most of her jaw in a sniper assault two years earlier and had gone back to work in Sarajevo. Unbeknownst to most television reporters, customary law long ago deemed radio and television stations to be military objectives as are other military-industrial, military research, infrastructure, communications, and energy targets. The logic is that they can usually be put to military use and are essential for the functioning of any modern military in time of conflict. Journalists per se are not a legitimate target, but if they are wounded while visiting or working in a legitimate target, it is considered collateral damage.
— via Crimes of War “Legitimate Military Targets” by Gaby Rado
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Former Bosnian Serb General Reacts to Film as Trial Opens in The Hague - New York Times →
But on this day, as a prosecutor, Dermot Groome, presented his narrative of the war and what he described as Mr. Mladic’s leading role, Mr. Mladic seemed revived, even animated, by film shown in the court, scenes from the time he kept the city of Sarajevo under siege for 44 months of shelling and sniping at civilians. And he nodded approvingly as rousing political speeches from 1992 were replayed, calling on Bosnian Serbs to rally for war against perceived Muslim and Croatian enemies.
Paolo Pellegrin. Two members of a Karen family are seen in their backyard in North Rochester. The family had escaped the fighting in Burma and lived in a refugee camp in Thailand for years before moving to the US through the help of a Catholic relief organization.
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Even wars have limits… International humanitarian law, whose bedrock is the Geneva Conventions, is a set of rules which seek to protect people who are not, or are no longer, participating in the hostilities and to restrict the means and methods of warfare.
May 8, 2012 at 5:54am
News Photography Standards Out of Touch? →
A growing global trend of employing facial recognition technologies (FRTs) has increased risks of compromising the privacy and safety of anyone filmed or photographed, especially in countries with repressive governments. WITNESS is concerned with how this trend affects activists, but I wondered how professional photographers are adapting to this changing atmosphere. Have their conceptions of ethical photography been altered? Have their own technological strategies changed?
I brought some of these questions to John Moore, a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer and staff photographer for Getty Images who covered the Egyptian revolution last year.
