scary news coming out of Libya!?! Photojournalists killed

[GSNfan]

... And in fact its a dream job. As a photographer, if you're sent on assignment to a war zone, it means you have made it.

I'd accept such a job without any hesitation and I'll be very proud of it...

So, this is not the same as being drafted and sent to the front lines, its being part of an elusive club.

No one lives forever.

 

[andersju]

If you read that carefully and break it down, its pure verbose nonsense.

I thought it was pretty straightforward.

 

[Field]

I agree with Kevin M in many ways. The fact that photos have to be published has put the good affects of foreign war photography on the wane.

Photos have done some good. Would I do it? Yeah I might, but I do not have very high self esteem so I am not very afraid. I would still think it was weird that people cared about me but were not in a regular upset that others were being killed or maimed.

 

[emraphoto]

I don't get what's scary about this. Death is the end result of life. Whether a long or short life.

I say celebrate the guy! By the response to his death, he seems to have had an impact on others. That's fitting epitaph for anyone.

Raise a glass to his memory and be glad he died doing what he WANTED TO DO. Because sure enough, nobody MADE him go there. HE CHOSE TO BE THERE. Unlike the poor, unfortunate residents of Libya who have no recourse but to die or endure.

There is NO better end to a well lived life than to die in a place of your own choosing doing what you love.

Rock on buddy.

I guess for folks who knew either of the two or spend time in the region it was a sad and scary day.

 

[semordnilap]

A war zone can have casualties. It is always very sad to have a human die.
All humans are equally important, in my opinion, and whether someone is well known or just some unknown child in some Libyan street, they all deserve to live and live well. Maybe the outrage over a journalist's death has to do with the fact that he did not have to be there, but he chose to be there. Either way, it is a very sad event. We hear of hundeds of such sad events in Libya. People die in the streets.

This is life.

I think this is the sagest and most true comment in this whole thread. We express our sadness, grief, anger, etc., over the death of a journalist because he or she is somehow close to those of us outside the conflict, but also because it is a rare event. We would never sleep if we felt in such ways at the death of every child, of every innocent thrown in the midst of horror, even simply for the time it would take to think of every name and look at every face. There is the famous quote–the death of one is tragedy, the death of thousands a statistic–perhaps from Stalin, that great accumulator of statistics. I am not saying that this is right, only that it is this way–it is easier for us to understand events on a personal scale–we are wired for it.

The irony, of course, is that the goal of the journalists who died was ostensibly to show the other, unknown, foreign faces, perhaps to make us, or to help us, feel for them, to make that loss less anonymous, yet nothing they could shoot or film could bring that closer to us than their own deaths.

 

[newsgrunt]

a glimpse of what people are dealing with in Misrata and why journalists are still there.

http://bit.ly/egxNnu

 

[emraphoto]

Great link newsgrunt.

GSNfan - I agree with you comment about the people trapped in the situation. It is alarming how little the civilian population matters in our reporting. A point that needs further consideration.

 

[filmtwit]

Terry Gross "Fresh Air" interview with several combat photographers from today's show

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135513724/two-war-photographers-on-their-injuries-ethics

 

[pakeha]

Dont let the Al Jazeera bit colour your perception [ you know who i mean..🙂)], worth a read, as are the comments


http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2011/04/22/ajdabiya-honours-fallen-british-photojournalist