Visual Journalism

Using Documentary Film to Deeply Explore Issues

‘It seemed to me solid news reporting could no longer do its job.’

Visual Testimony About War

All photos by Peter van Agtmael.For the past two and a half years, I have covered war and its consequences in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the United States. As an…

When Being a Photojournalist Is About Surviving

‘Journalists could never be sure they would be alive to cover the next assignment.’

Photographing a Nation Under Siege

In Liberia, a photojournalist finds death, despair and destruction.

‘Welcome to Hell’

A photojournalist records his thoughts during the battle for Grozny.

Photographic Images Can Be Misunderstood

‘I had hoped people would view this boy from Ain el Helweh as I had seen him, a tiny tragic figure.’

Images of a Shattered City

‘…you can feel the energy and the horror and a sense of history washing over you at once.’

Using Graphics to Tell Stories

‘[O]nline graphics add other dimensions to the stories we report….’

Images From Another War in Afghanistan

A controversial program for Afghan ‘journalists’ produced a treasured collection of video, audio and photography.
September 11, 2001: Telling Stories Visually

September 11, 2001: Telling Stories Visually

‘What moved me was a sense of a life being transformed by an experience in a way that there was no going back.’