Visual Journalism

Using a Cultural Icon to Explore a People’s Heart

A photographer invites community members to help create new images.
June 15, 2001
Delilah Montoya

Do Images of War Need Justification?

No. Imparting information ought to be enough.
September 15, 2000
Philip Caputo

Photographers Can’t Hide Behind Their Cameras

Images of war are raw, dirty, ugly, personal and disturbing. And they ought to be.
September 15, 2000
Steve Northup

The Unbearable Weight of Witness

Vivid images of war and famine make human misery impossible to ignore.
September 15, 2000
Michele McDonald

James Nachtwey Photographs

A Hutu man who did not support the genocide had been imprisoned in a concentration camp, starved, and attacked with machetes. He managed to survive, and after he was freed…
September 15, 2000
James Nachtwey

Fall 2000: Photojournalism Introduction

James Nachtwey’s book “Inferno” is a collection of 382 photographs depicting the horrific brutality and suffering of people who are entrapped by war, famine or political unrest. Its publication offers…
September 15, 2000
Melissa Ludtke

Dying to Get the Story

A journalist reflects on which risks are necessary.
September 15, 2000
Mary Kay Magistad

Journalists Learn How to Protect Themselves in War

At a May 2000 conference called “The World of Conflict,” co-sponsored by The Crimes of War Project and The Freedom Forum, former soldiers who now teach journalists how to assess…
September 15, 2000

‘Basically We’re Alone. Left Up to Our Own Wits.’

War photographers describe what it’s like to do their jobs.
September 15, 2000
War Photographers

The Perils of Growing Comfortable With Evil

The lynching of Jesse Washington, May 16, 1916, in Robinson, Texas. From the exhibition “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.” Photo courtesy of The New-York Historical Society.April 9, 2000 The…
September 15, 2000
Brent Staples