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.

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.

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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?

APF photographer Kenji Nagai lies on the ground, seriously injured, but still taking photo

APF photographer Kenji Nagai lies on the ground, dead.

It was supposed to be a quiet weekend in Washington (…). I had just put on my mountain biking shoes, ready to clip into the pedals for a ride around the forest near Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, when I got THE CALL. It was a White House staffer, asking that we meet in three hours at a secret location known only to Reuters correspondent Matt Spetalnick and I, where we were to be told details of a special secret visit by U.S. President Bush to Iraq.

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Audio slideshow: Inside Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) news agency has been reporting news and transmitting pictures since 1846, in the earliest days of the long-distance telegraph. (..) The BBC asks three AP photographers (…) for their views on the dangers of carrying cameras in conflict

Iraq: news in transition audioslide

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Rick Loomis has covered the Iraq war for the Los Angeles Times. His outstanding series on “The Siege of Fallouja” and his heartbreaking multimedia report on wounded soldiers in “The Lifeline” have pushed the boundaries of mainstream journalism. Loomis generously agreed to open his photo files to us and recounted his life-changing experiences from his four years of deployment in Iraq.