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With the recent news concerning freelance photojournalist James Foley and other almost-too-frequent-to-count losses in combat photojournalism, I thought I'd also like to open up a discussion about PTSD, as felt by photographers who come home from combat situations and other assignments. With more and more newsrooms cutting down, 80% of war photographers are freelancers without support to cope with what they have seen and experienced.
Also here's a recent article with numerous videos discussing the role of combat photojournalism, the risks, and PTSD for those interested.
THank you! (Also...I MOVED 2000 MILES)
Thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone. Thirty-seven trips around the sun now. I will be getting to all of your comments as soon as I can to thank you and also to catch up with everyone.
So, something a little wild happened after my last journal when I said I was back. I moved. I moved two thousand miles to the opposite coast of the continent. I live in New York now in the Finger Lakes region. It is my paradise. I'm in the middle of nowhere and sit on acres upon acres of forest. Internet is...temperamental at best and nonexistent at most. I'm almost entirely off grid and everything here in the woods is trying to kill me. Including the p
because I can't stop
So I'm back and I have a serious question. Do you consider screenshot photography to be an art? I ask because in what little time I have off, I frequently devote to killing dragons, taking down super mutants, farming 16-bit vegetables and what not. Annnnndddddddd screencapping the heck out of it because, apparently, I'm incapable of even relaxing without taking photographs of it.
It's become yet another passion of mine and I'm distressed to find that I can't find a suitable category for something like it here.
No, it doesn't have F-stops or ISOs or the like, but I've still had to learn to use a distinct set of tools to work within the confi
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10828 messages? Hahahahahahaha. No. I'm not going through all of them. I love you guys, but no. No can do. That said, how are all of you?!
I'm BACCCKKKKKK...you poor poor souls.
So I took a year off. First the surgery, then I got slammed with a lot of work, became burnt out, then took a turn for the worst in a battle with severe major depressive disorder, fought against my own brain for the entirety of the fall (the closest by far I've ever come to taking my own life), had another surgery, returned to work and today have returned to dA.
I know. I've missed out on more than I can ever truly catch up on. Like a lot of people I tend to shut doors and wall myself in when I'm not doing well and I need strangers to save my life because I won't listen to the wisdom of my closest confidantes. Maybe it was because deviantART
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My utmost respect goes to civilian conflict photographers. It's hard enough doing it with the support (and, once earned, brotherhood) of the military. Because of the nature of our jobs, we walk on razors - no matter what, we're usually seen as assholes or monsters.
Since I'm at work, I can't view the videos, but now I'm curious to know how, or if, they train prior to documenting events like combat or riots.
Since I'm at work, I can't view the videos, but now I'm curious to know how, or if, they train prior to documenting events like combat or riots.