I have publicly and on this forum very explicitly argued against the strange ‘disappearance’ of black/brown bodies that are the actual targets and victims of our ‘liberal’ state policies of surveillance, entrapment, drone assassinations, renditions and indefinite detention. I recently argued: “Western visual journalism, and visual artists, have erased the actual victims of the criminal […]
Category Archives: Essays On Embedded Photojournalism
Eyes Of Aliyah–Deport, Deprive, Extradite Initiative By Nisha Kapoor
December 7, 2017 – 12:25 pm
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By arafiqui
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Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Journalism, Photography
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Short Doc: “As If A Nightmare”;The Story Of Former Bagram Prisoner Abdul Haleem Saifullah
We are commemorating 9/11 this week, but by remembering the ‘other’ victims of that event that few chose to remember. These are the brown bodies that rarely make it into visual media projects, that since 9/11, have chosen to hide behind digital representations, data charts, and other visual forms that do a lot, but […]
September 11, 2017 – 1:06 pm
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By arafiqui
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Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Pakistan, Pakistan Justice Project Essays
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Short Doc: “Prisoner 1432” – The Story of Former Bagram Prisoner Amanatullah Ali
We are commemorating 9/11 this week, but by remembering the ‘other’ victims of that event that few chose to remember. These are the brown bodies that rarely make it into visual media projects, that since 9/11, have chosen to hide behind digital representations, data charts, and other visual forms that do a lot, but […]
September 11, 2017 – 1:04 pm
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By arafiqui
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Helping Us Absorb The Shock Of Reality
Raymond Williams work ‘Keywords’ is perhaps one of the great pioneering cultural studies text of our lifetime. There are not many works that can claim that. In it, Williams pointed out that the meaning and use of words is deeply influenced by and changes with our political, social and economic situations and needs. As Williams […]
August 26, 2016 – 8:37 pm
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By arafiqui
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Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Journalism, Musings On Confusions, Photography, Uncategorized
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War As A Product
The two individuals, introduced to us as ‘reporters’ for The New York Times, Helene Cooper and Adam Ferguson, and who are “…aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf.” are apparently conducting journalism. But it is near impossible to see how they could be doing anything other than producing propaganda pieces for the US […]
September 22, 2015 – 12:00 pm
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By arafiqui
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The Photojournalist As A Victim Of Ideology
The New York Times Sunday Magazine joins the game of re-writing the war. The New York Times efforts – through the use of its correspondents and pundits, to obfuscate and outright distort this latest Israeli initiated and unnecessary mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza (with over 550 documented deaths of children alone, a war crime […]
September 3, 2014 – 10:30 am
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By arafiqui
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Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Journalism, Musings On Confusions, Photography
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Recycling Myths To Remember A War
You cannot report a war from the front lines. You can only report a battle. Ducking under fire, scared for your life, beholden to the largess and tolerance of the military forces you are traveling with, denuded of context, obsessed with the immediate action unfolding in front of you, while constantly keeping an eye over […]
March 29, 2013 – 2:38 am
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By arafiqui
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Fabricated Histories, Celebrated Photographers And A New Frontier For The Embedded Photographer
Time Magazine’s Lightbox photography blog had a rather bizarre story earlier today. Titled Real Photographer, Fake War: Jonathan Olley and Zero Dark Thirty, it focused on the film studio photography work of photographer Jonathan Olley who once also happened to have worked as a news photographer in some conflict zones. What seemed to have attracted […]
January 8, 2013 – 12:47 am
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By arafiqui
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Sticking Our Head In The Sand
Larry Towell is looking for money for a new project in Afghanistan and has placed his request on Kickstarter. This would all have been fine had it not been for the fact that he is doing the wrong project. Larry Towell has been an inspiration, one of the first photographers whose works compelled me to […]
December 29, 2010 – 12:20 pm
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By arafiqui
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Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Journalism, Photography
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Tagged Afghanistan, Clash of Civilizations, Colonialism, Crimes Against Humanity, Crisis of Photojournalism, Imperialism, Journalism, Middle East, Occupation, Oil, On Photography, Terrorism, Tribal Areas, War Against Terror, War Crimes
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Photographing The Unseen
Trevor Paglen is a man on a mission and it is one that reminds us that what makes any work of photography relevant, interesting, important or even significant, are the ideas and intentions that inform it. Anything else is merely gazing at pretty pictures.
July 27, 2010 – 1:20 pm
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By arafiqui
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Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Photography
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Tagged Afghanistan, Crimes Against Humanity, Crisis of Photojournalism, Democracy, Imperialism, Iraq, On Photography, Photo Technique, Torture, War Against Terror, Water Boarding
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