Black, White, and Blood: Photojournalist Heidi Levine on her time in Libya
Heidi Levine, who I’ve written about here, was going through her year in photographs (she was in Libya, Egypt, and Gaza on assignment among other places)…
One Victim’s Battle to End Sexual Violence Against Journalists / The Atlantic
Jineth Bedoya Lima hooked her eyes on the middle distance and gave a look of contempt. She was tucked in a seat at a hearing of…
Witnesses to Genocide: The Living, the Dead, and the Photographers
I get a lot of IMs. And lately a number of them come from a Spanish photographer named Ofelia de Pablo—“Hi Lauren” will pop up a…
Remaining ‘human, not a machine’: Reporting, feeling, the horrors of war
I wrote about a photojournalist named Heidi Levine the other day. I didn’t actually identify her, but I mentioned how a woman working in Libya was…
She’s a war reporter, but what is she wearing?
There’s an article in the U.K. Independent today about women war correspondents. Called “Female war reporters: ‘We’re given the softer side of war’,” the story gets…
The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists / CPJ
Nine years passed before Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya spoke publicly about the brutal rape she endured while reporting on right-wing paramilitaries in May 2000. On assignment…