Shooting Under Fire: Candid Testimony and Stunning Photographs (2003)
James Nachtwey (March 14, 1948) is an
American photojournalist and war photographer.
He has been awarded the
Overseas Press Club's
Robert Capa Gold Medal five times and two
World Press Photo awards. In
2003,
Nachtwey was injured in a grenade attack on his convoy while working in
Baghdad, from which he made a full recovery.
Nachtwey has worked with
Time as a contract photographer since
1984. He worked for
Black Star (
1980–
1985), was a member of
Magnum Photos (
1986–
2001) and
VII Photo Agency (2001–
2011) where he was a founding member.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nachtwey
Ron Haviv (
1965)[1] is a photojournalist who covers international conflict. He is the author of several photographic publications, is a co-founder of VII Photo Agency, lectures at universities and conducts workshops.
Ron Haviv was an accomplished student and graduate of
Northern Valley Demarest High School in
1983, later he went on to graduate from
NYU. A graduate of
New York University,[2] Ron Haviv has covered conflict and other humanitarian crises worldwide since the end of the
Cold War. Haviv is known for his broad documentation of the
Yugoslav Wars: the battle of
Vukovar in
Croatia, the
Siege of Sarajevo, the atrocities committed at
Serb concentration camps in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the practice of ethnic cleansing as exhibited by
Arkan's Tigers.[3]
He has also photographed the city of
Juárez,[4] a battleground of the
Mexican Drug War where civilian, law enforcement and cartel member casualties occur daily.[5] Additionally, Haviv is noted for his coverage of the destruction of the
2010 Haiti earthquake, as well as the subsequent
Cholera epidemic, and celebrity support and involvement in its reconstruction. Haviv's photography also sheds light on malnutrition in
Bangladesh, clashes between
Los Angeles gangs and police forces, the 2009
Afghan presidential elections, the
Sri Lankan Civil War, the struggle for children in
Darfur, among many other situations of conflict.
Haviv’s images have been distributed widely by various publications including
Business Week,
Fortune,
Le Monde, Newsweek,
The New York Times Magazine,
The New Yorker,
Paris Match,
Vanity Fair,
Vogue, Time, and
US News & World Report, among others worldwide. Additionally, numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the
Louvre, the
United Nations, and the
Council on Foreign Relations. Haviv has spoken about his work on
ABC World News,
BBC,
CNN,
NPR,
MSNBC,
NBC Nightly News,
Good Morning America and
The Charlie Rose Show.[6]
Haviv’s photography has been collected and published in the critically acclaimed books:
Blood and Honey: A
Balkan War Journal,
Afghanistan:
On the Road to
Kabul, and
Haiti:
12 January 2010. He is one of seven co-founders of VII Photo Agency, formed in 2001, along with
Alexandra Boulat,
Gary Knight,
Antonin Kratochvil,
Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and
John Stanmeyer. Haviv has channeled his focus on raising awareness for human rights violations by helping to create multi-platform projects for
NGO’s, such as
Doctors Without Borders’
DR Congo missions:
The Forgotten War and
Starved for
Attention,
UNICEF’s
Child Alert for Darfur and
Sri Lanka, and the
International Committee of the
Red Cross’
World at War.
In
2012 Haviv caused controversy in the photojournalism community[7] when it was revealed an image from his book 'Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul', which was also published on
The Digital Journalist website,[8] had been licensed to the arms manufacturer
Lockheed Martin to advertise their small diameter bombs. Haviv responded with a statement in which he claimed that his photo agency '
VII is not associated in any way with the images in question'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Haviv