“I conservatively estimate that I should have been killed at least five times over by now,” Picone recalls. A master of black and white film photography, Picone has covered conflicts in places like Israel, Gaza, Sudan, and Rwanda, and is also a co-founder of the photo festival, Reportage. Australian photographer Jack Picone is based in Thailand and goes wherever work takes him. In unstable nations, shootouts and bombings are just background noise to people’s everyday lives. In conflict zones, close calls and near-death experiences come with the territory. A US Marine interrogates a suspected Syrian fighter who was robbing an Iraqi bank a day after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria are just news headlines for most, but they have become workplaces, and even homes, for photographers who risk their lives to capture moments in the ravages of war. While most of the world shrinks away from this violence, a certain breed of photographer willingly jumps into the fray in pursuit of documenting the lives of people caught up in the chaos. Splashed across TV screens and newspaper headlines are a procession of wars, military coups, terrorism, and human rights abuses. These days it can feel like conflict is everywhere. Who are these photographers, and how do they balance personal safety with taking incredible photographs in hostile environments? Amanda Copp finds out. Photographers in conflict zones risk their lives to capture stories of people caught up in violence.
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