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Name a conflict and it's likely that a photo comes immediately to mind. Maybe it's WWII and the flag-raising at Iwo Jima. Or Vietnam and a wounded, naked girl running in agony and fear. Or Iraq and Abu Ghraib.
When photographer Eddie Adams died, the media ran his photograph
of a South Vietnamese colonel executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point blank
range. Adams's photo was one of a few which became iconic of the Vietnam
war itself, and emblematizes how the still photograph can have such
profound impact on the public mind. In fact, our understanding of conflict
has been mediated through photojournalism ever since the Crimean and American
Civil Wars.
Yet we tend to hear very little from the photographers whose images
shape our consciousness of warfare. BEYOND WORDS focuses on the
world's
top war photojournalists, and attempts to turn the lens of attention
onto them. Many have been wounded. Some have seen colleagues die. All
have been scarred by what they do: some become disillusioned, even ashamed
of what they do, and leave the profession because they feel it's pornographic.
Yet some remain charged by the excitement of it, and others committed
to the idea that where there are no images, there is no sense of
history.
The sheer spectrum of their reflections points to the fact that the payoffs
and pitfalls of journalism itself are nowhere more concentrated and accelerated
than in the lives and work of these photographers.
We hope you can join us!
AWARD WINNING: The 10 minute version of this documentary
(available for viewing here)
has won two awards (a Gabriel and
a Columbus
Bronze Plaque) and was nominated for a third (a Gemini:
Best Newsmagazine Segment).
The film also won a New York Festivals
World Silver Medal in January 2006 and a Judges Choice Award for
best TV News photography at the National
Press Photographers Association.
INTERNATIONAL SCREENINGS: A rough cut of the documentary
was screened at the 2005
Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival
in Perpignan, France, where it was warmly received. It has also been shown
as part of the World
Press Photo exhibition in Toronto, and has also been
shown in Prague. There'll
be other screenings: in Poland, Paris, London and New York.