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Beyond Words: Photographers of War
Published by: DigitalJournalist.com       04-23-2006        Read Complete Article
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"The biggest myth about photojournalists is that we're all cowboys." That's a paraphrase of what a French photographer told me when I interviewed him for a CBC television documentary, "Beyond Words: Photographers of War." He later sent me some photos of himself on assignments, and one of them showed him grinning, red bandana, sunglasses and both arms raised with an automatic rifle hoisted over his head. The statement and the photo didn't seem to mesh. Now it was my turn to grin, and I then thought of something else he'd said to me: "Within our own norms, I think we're quite normal people." When he said that, it seemed like a total redundancy. But after having interviewed 24 others photojournalists for the documentary, it has a poignant meaning. He and the other interviewees are 'normal,' whatever that may mean. But their norms certainly aren't mine. I could never do what they do. And that was one of the major reasons why my colleague, Eric Foss, and I wanted to make this documentary."....Read Complete Article



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