Care Under Fire
In a vast, well-lit gallery at the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) in New York, photographs of scenes from the war in Iraq line the walls. They capture violence, suffering, and hardship. Though some of the images are disturbing to look at, they are a testament to the determined, unflinching journalists who captured them on film. Photo, video, radio and print news of conflicts around the world are captured every day by journalists who put getting their story above all else—even, at times, their own safety. This week, when I arrived with a group of combat journalists at the BDC, a table in the gallery was arranged as a tribute to two photojournalists who died while covering the conflict in Libya. Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed by a mortar attack exactly one year ago today. They were both young and strong, widely respected professionals in their fields: Hondros was… LEARN MORE
