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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 With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news photographers, Photojournalists on War (University of Texas Press,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.’

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Job Position: Archivist
Mirrorpix is the home of one of Britain’s largest photographic archive resources, charting the history of the 20th Century and beyond through the lenses of such pioneers of press photojournalism as The Grant Brothers, Ernest Brookes and George Greenwell to name but a few. The collections are added to on a daily basis with contemporary material and we’re now looking to recruit a new member of staff to join our busy Archive Team in North Watford.

As a commercial library working in a competitive environment we are looking for a team player who understands the demands on a modern picture agency.

Main Responsibilities:
• Liaise directly with our commercial team on internal and external client requests and help coordinate research activities between our group archives
• Ability to understand a research brief and deliver accurate results on time
• Digital image processing, including capture, colour correction and repair as required of heritage images
• Accurate and efficient captioning and keywording of historic and contemporary images
• Quality control of online content
• Maintaining the upkeep of a hardcopy library of over 60 million print and negative assets
• Liaise with clients and colleagues on visits to the archives

Required Skills:
• Ability to work as a team member is essential
• Work quickly and accurately in a pressured, deadline led environment.
• Excellent telephone manner and interpersonal skills
• Good spelling and grammar skills required.

Required Knowledge:
• An interest in photography and a sound demonstrable knowledge of 20th century and contemporary history and the personalities involved is essential
• Understanding of both hard copy print and negative scanning processes
• A minimum of 1 year’s digital imaging/Photoshop experience.
• Computer literate on both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows
• Experience of digital image delivery processes and how picture libraries use websites to deliver content to their clients is essential.

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to fergus.mckenna@mirror.co.uk
Fergus McKenna
Head of Syndication & Licensing
Mirror Group
22nd Floor
One Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London E14 5AP
Closing date: 24tht May 2013