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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Chris McGreal

‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict

‘There’s nothing that people will not do to each other, and there’s nothing they won’t do for each other’ … an image of Rwanda
‘There’s nothing that people will not do to each other, and there’s nothing they won’t do for each other’ … an image of Rwanda. Photograph: Corinne Dufka

When the tears came, they weren’t always for the dead and the unfathomable depths of suffering. They also flowed for the times in between, for the joy and smiles of the unknowing.

As the acclaimed American war photographer Corinne Dufka sorted through the pictures and negatives for her new book, This Is War: Photographs from a Decade of Conflict, covering more than a decade on frontlines from El Salvador to Bosnia and Liberia, she once again looked into the faces she had perhaps only registered briefly years ago.

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