Visual Journalism

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.’

Being Receptive to the Unexpected

A photographer immerses himself in a community to tell its stories.

Using the Drama of Cinéma Vérité to Tell Real Stories

It often conveys news, but is it journalism?