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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

Is photojournalism worth dying for? Oscar-nominated documentary on war photographer killed in Ukraine begs question

A graphic of man holding a camera partially silhouetted by the sunset.

The life of a war photographer is fraught with danger. Much like combatants, they too experience the devastation, needing to be near the action to tell the stories.

While I certainly believe photographic stories from conflict zones play an important role in educating the wider world on the ghastly nature of war, especially its futility, I struggle to see how they are worth dying for.

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