After Gorgian and Canadian journalists, it’s now a Turkish TV crew that experiences the pleasure of being shot at in Georgia. This one is very scary; you can see the bullets flying by as they try to escape.

A Georgian reporter is shot at while doing a live, and a Radio-Canada (French-Canadian CBS) crew have their car and everything they have but a camera stolen at gun point a checkpoint.

During Montreal’s riot, a La Presse photographer was attacked, and 20000$ worth of gear was stolen.

La Presse editorialist Yves Boivert:

C’est devenu une routine: du grabuge dans les rues de Montréal et, le lendemain, des policiers débarquent dans les salles de rédaction pour saisir les images captées par les photographes et caméramans. (…)Il est déjà périlleux pour les caméramans et photographes de s’aventurer au milieu d’une émeute afin d’en être les témoins pour le public (…) Si en plus les manifestants en viennent à identifier les médias comme le bras électronique de la police, cela deviendra carrément dangereux. Ils ne pourront pas faire leur travail.

La Presse Robert Skinner audio interview about the incident

Albuquerque police officer loses his temper and attack a photographer. Wow.

Can’t wait for THAT to cross the pound, so *I* can be targeted as a potential terrorist… More detail here.

But the paranoia over photography has truly gotten out of hand. Carrying a camera in today’s America invokes nothing but suspicion and fear. People only assume the worst

Trent is so right!

AFP photographer Patrick Baz was in the Palestine Hotel April 8 when a U.S. tank fired a shell at one of the hotel balconies, killing Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and Spanish cameraman Jose Couso. Baz recounts the moments that led up to the attack and the ensuing chaos.

Full story on PDN online

Reuter Staff photographer describes a close combat with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

As a photographer embedded with the Canadians, I was hit by the blast and then enveloped by a cloud of dust and smoke as we scrambled for cover behind a mud wall shielding us from Taliban positions on the opposite side of a grape field.

Canadian and Afghan troops quickly returned fire and I focussed on taking pictures of an Afghan army soldier shooting a heavy mounted machine gun from a nearby ditch.

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People often ask whether it’s worth the risk taking combat pictures. It’s only worth it if you don’t get hurt or worse. The second something bad happens, the gamble is lost.

The last picture, featuring O’Reilly himself, made my day.

A group of elite conflict photographers have banded together under the photo agency, VII, in an effort to uncover the true meaning of the Iraq War.

In the wake of September 11, the VII agency was formed by award-winning veteran cameraman James Nachtwey and colleagues, and has since covered the site at Ground Zero, the invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War since America plunged headlong into its “War Against Terror. ” For Nachtwey, the accumulated experience of nearly a quarter century of war photography began crystallizing into a vision centered around Ground Zero. Come with us as we discover what this vision was, delve into respective war photographers’ thoughts and actions in the heat of battle, as well as how the face of war has changed since 9/11.

As James Nachtwey says in this video, quoting Robert Capa, “The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.”

Thanks to Martin Benois

Was Nagai Kenji deliberately shot at close range by a soldier?