Photojournalism

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🗓️ 12 June 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When disaster strikes, photojournalists run toward it instead of away. Usually, with a camera in hand. Their job is to get up close to tragedy and danger, to document things we need to see, in the hopes of somehow making a difference. This hour we’re talking with some of the world’s great photojournalists. And, remembering NPR war photographer David Gilkey – killed with his translator this week while on assignment in Afghanistan. Is the Risk of Photojournalism Worth It?; James Nachtwey on Covering Conflicts on the Ground; The Aesthetic Beauty of War Photography; Capturing Manufactured Landscapes; Photography Beyond Tragedy; Revisiting Susan Sontag On the Pain of Others.

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0:00.0	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs, and this week all of us. Public radio
0:05.0	listeners and producers were shocked and saddened by the death of NPR photojournalist David Gilke.
0:11.6	He and his translator were killed while they were on assignment in Afghanistan, when the
0:16.1	convoy they were traveling in was ambushed by the Taliban. Photojournalists like David go places most of us wouldn't want to go.
0:24.6	They take pictures of things we may not even want to see.
0:28.1	They risk their lives, hoping to send back that one image
0:31.7	that just might change someone's mind or open someone's heart.
0:36.4	I heard David Gilkey talk a couple of years ago.
0:39.0	This was on a panel with some other public radio journalists, and he told his story I've
0:42.9	never forgotten.
0:44.2	He'd just gotten back from Liberia, where he was covering the Ebola epidemic, and he told
0:48.9	us about a single photo he took.
0:51.1	I was a picture of a little boy who looks like he's four or five years old.
0:56.0	Well, this is a little boy saw Exco. We first came across him on a beach in Monrovia,
1:07.0	sitting naked, scared on a little bucket.
1:11.6	He was sitting on a paint bucket,
1:14.6	surrounded by about 50 people.
1:16.6	And he was clearly sick.
1:19.6	He couldn't move.
1:21.6	I shot video of him in the morning,
1:24.6	and then as the day progressed, we left and we came back and
1:28.7	somebody had moved him about I don't know 20 yards up to where this photograph is
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