The icy cold wind was blowing off the nearby sea as the Libyan rebels parked their ‘Technicals’ up on the high ground to the left of the tar road that ran directly into Bin Jawad, Eastern Libya.
The atmosphere was relaxed, considering this was the frontline of a conventional war, and it reminded me of some [...]

I am a confused photographer… (But before I hear you shouting – well, what else is new, try and understand why…)
It all used to be so simple when I first started shooting professionally back in the mid ’90’s. There was a choice of three film formats to capture the light that shines through that [...]

… “I may not have my legs but at least I have my good looks…”
This reported quote by 44-year old South African War photographer, Joao Silva, will surely become the stuff of legend.
The incredibly inspirational photojournalist and family man was seriously injured Saturday while on patrol with US troops in Afghanistan while working as a [...]

Lately the thorny  topic of photojournalism ethics has reared it’s very ugly head again; this time involving a top photojournalist and a leading supporter of photojournalism; the Pulizter Centre.
It seems that Marco Vernaschi asked the parents of a murdered girl in Uganda,  Babirye Margret (10) to exhume her body so he could  photograph her as [...]

I am sure all of us remember the one of the first and most impactful images to have come out of the devastated island of Haiti hours after the huge earthquake struck the nation on January 12, 2010.
A woman lies amongst the rubble of a broken building, looking up at the photographer, [...]

Saturday April 3 2010 was a day that for South Africans, their lives changed.
Right wing AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered by two of his farm workers in his bed on his farm a few kilometers from the Platteland town of Ventersdorp. The murder took place amidst a racial controversy in South Africa involving ANC [...]