Photograph by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos

Jada Yuan, in writing for the NYT about conflict photographers, highlights the tight community of journalists that the late Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were a part of. The accompanying spread includes moving portraits by Christopher Anderson, and poignantly described by the title of the piece:

“You Never Forget That First Taste of War”: The photographers that Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros left behind.

Also take a look at

Shooters: The City’s War Photographers Mourn Two of Their Own

Directors and journalists Sebastian Junger, left, and Tim Hetherington are shown at the Restrepo outpost in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, during the filming of their documentary "Restrepo". Hetherington was recently killed while reporting from Libya. (AP/Outpost Films/Tim Hetherington)

Sebastian Junger reflects on Hetherington and other photojournalist colleague, Chris Hondros, in this moving interview on NPR’s Here and Now

- update again: read this article by Junger on Vanity Fair [thanks Les!]

Wolf Böwig, from his book with text by Pedro Rosa Mendes, ‘shadows, dreams, shapes: the lulik reality’

Conflict photographer Wolf Böwig spent the last three days in Sewanee. Wolf: your visit has energized many people here – thank you!!

Wolf’s web site: http://www.wolfboewig.de/

several multi-media examples of his work, including the films ‘Kurosafrica’ and ‘Gandhi’s Way’.

Wolf’s collaborative project, Black.Light merges text, drawing and photography to render highly charged pieces about conflict. The project is a collaboration between Wolf Böwig, writer Pedro Rosa Mendes, Henning Ahlers, Kirsten Rian, Christoph Ermisch and a number of illustrators:

Danijel Zezelj, Séra (Phoussera Ing), Greg Ruth, George Pratt, Lorenzo Mattotti, Nic Klein, Thierry van Hasselt, Benjamin Flao, and David von Bassewitz

People continue to dig through rubble looking for bodies in Leogane, Haiti, on Tuesday. Mary Knox Merrill/The Christian Science Monitor

Sewanee alum Mary Knox Merrill is a staff photographer for the Christian Science Monitor and reporting from Haiti. This article has some of her work – scroll down to mid-point and click on the ‘Video: Earthquake Haiti’ link.

Other stories by Mary Knox:

AFRICA
Rape in Congo as weapon of war
Congo’s gorillas
Educating girls in Uganda
Pro Poor tourism in Rwanda
INDIA
Artificial Glaciers in Ladakh
Local film industry

Anti-terrorism legislation in the USA, UK and many other democracies is affecting the work of photographers, documentarians and journalists. This article from the British Journal of Photography has triggered the (photography is) Not-A-Crime initiative to bring attention to the matter. Do your bit.

The work of  KayLynn Deveny – quiet, respectful, and a message in a bottle. (thanks for the pointer Angela!)

I have just posted a new folio of photographs from Haiti – this is an ongoing body of work, which for now is very much in progress. The folio contains several threads of ideas which will ultimately take on a documentary form.