Author Archives: Will Carleton

Release Date: May 15, 2013
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-292-74408-0
10 x 12 inches, 288 pages, 166 color and b&w photos
by Michael Kamber – publisher University of Texas Press

Michael Kamber, a writer and photojournalist for over 25 years, who covered the Iraq War for the New York Times between 2003 and 2012, interviewed thirty-nine colleagues for the book, many of them from leading news organizations including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington Post.

The photojournalists who documented the war in Iraq faced a new kind of urban warfare. To the roadside bombs, snipers, and Katyusha rockets, Iraq added assassins, kidnappers and deadly street mobs; each photographer soon became as much target as observer. Tellingly, more photojournalists were killed in Iraq than in any other modern conflict; hundreds were abducted and wounded, or narrowly escaped death. Despite the great personal risks, some stayed and worked amidst increasingly brutal conditions as the war escalated from “shock and awe” invasion, to occupation, to insurgency, to civil war. With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news photographers, Photojournalists on War (University of Texas Press, May 2013) presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East.
The hard-hitting accounts of these practitioners would be rare in the annals of any war, yet here they reveal the inside and untold stories behind the headlines in Iraq. Each interview is logged with the year and location it took place, and is accompanied by a selection of the photographer’s work made on and off the battlefield.
The Photographers in Photojournalists on War are:
Lynsey Addario – Christoph Bangert – Patrick Baz – Nina Berman – Ben Brody – Andrea Bruce – Guy Calaf – Patrik Chauvel – Alan Chin – Carolyn Cole – Jerome Delay – Marco Di Lauro – Ashley Gilbertson – Stanley Greene – Todd Heisler – Tyler Hicks – Eros Hoagland – Chris Hondros – Ed Kashi – Karim Ben Khelifa – Wathiq Khuzaie – Gary Knight – Yuri Kozyrev – Rita Leistner – Benjamin Lowy – Zoriah Miller – Khalid Mohammed – John Moore – Peter Nicholls – Farah Nosh – Gilles Peress – Scott Peterson – Lucian Read – Eugene Richards – Ahmad Al-Rubaye – João Silva – Stephanie Sinclair – Bruno Stevens – Peter van Agtmael

↑ Click to watch the BBC Magazine video: …’The book’s editor Michael Kamber, a photojournalist who covered the war for the New York Times, has been speaking to Michael Maher.’

UK based photo library Topfoto have kicked off an in-depth image edit celebrating their representation of the Roger-Viollet collection. They say: In honour and celebration of the 75th anniversary of Paris-based Roger-Viollet … we announce French Month! First in this “entente cordiale” series is to look at Marseille-Provence which is this years’ European Capital of Culture, with a colourful history all of it’s own… There will be a host of events taking place throughout the year and the summer will see revellers and culture lovers basking in events designed for the sunny days and balmy evenings.
Click here the Marseilles image selection
Click here for Roger-Viollet at TopFoto

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↑ Click to view the latest shoot edit from photographer Jim Erickson at Erickson Stock

Latest articles n our new site FootgaeNews.com – covering video and footage stock news:

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A selection of images from the Magnum Photos archives are now available to license through photo agency plainpicture in Hamburg.
The photo editors at planinpictures have done a great job editing the Magnum collection selecting clean commercial stock images to fit their own creative photo buyer client needs… They say: …[We] viewed Magnum from a new perspective: breaking away from the context of documentary photography, the focus of the plainpicture selection lies in strong symbolism and emotion. An atmosphere which the brilliant narrative of many Magnum photographers share with the aesthetic of the plainpicture Rauschen collection.
Take a look and license images here

The AP has unveiled a new web platform giving their customers better access to its vast collection of news and archival images.
AP Images’ new platform offers quicker search speed with type-ahead functionality, infinite scrolling, curated collections and an elegant design with image rollovers and larger thumbnails providing users with a much improved experience. It also makes image downloads faster, sharing photos simpler and a user’s workflow more efficient with the ability to tag images with multiple project names.
Take a look here

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As part of a new relationship between UK picture library association BAPLA and PhotoArchiveNews.com we will be reporting on the work BAPLA is doing to uphold image copyright protection through the UK and European Law creators. here’s their latest update:

ERR Bill becomes law

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, which includes changes to UK copyright law, has been passed by Royal Assent. This dramatic turn of events took the creative industry by surprise, as in the last update the bill had returned to the House of Lords to review clauses on estate agents, only to be passed on 24 April. Read the full press release from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills – here.

This development means that the clauses (clauses 74-78) the creative community wanted to continue debating and amend at the House of Commons cannot be changed. However, this is not where it ends – BAPLA still has an important job to do regarding secondary legislation, which refers to the practical application of primary legislation. This is where the BAPLA lobbying team will be crucial in ensuring that the concerns of our industry are listened to and changes implemented by the IPO.

In our last update we reported on the dialogue BAPLA is engaged in with the IP minister, Lord Younger of Leckie, instigated by our very own lobbyist. We are now scheduled to meet the IP minister in early June for a discussion about secondary legislation. We will seek reassurance from the IP minister that these significant changes to UK copyright law will not have a detrimental impact on BAPLA members’ businesses, and will also impress upon the IPO that our members’ concerns need to be heard.

On Wednesday 1 May, after a swathe of articles in the news about copyright changes passing into UK law, the IPO released a document setting out how the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 will affect photographers. You can read ‘The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 – Your Photos and You’ – here and the IPO ‘myth and fact information document’ – here.

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BAPLA are also working on a fact sheet about the copyright changes which we will report on soon….