BOOK SHOOTING WAR Title: SHOOTING WAR Publisher: Glitterati Editions Author: Anthony Feinstein Forward: Sir Harold Evans

Conflict photographers are visual historians, bearing witness to stories that must be told. The images they produce seize our attention and, moved by what we see, troubling questions come to mind. What has become of these victims of war whose plight has been so memorably captured on camera? How did human behaviour turn so dark? SHOOTING WAR builds on this narrative by asking a different set of questions that to date has received little, if any, attention. What of the person taking the photograph? From Shooting War by Anthony Feinstein, copyright © 2018, Published by Glitterati Editions What might they have experienced? ANTHONY FEINSTEIN is a professor of Psychiatry at Neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein provides the the University of Toronto, a Guggenheim Fellow, and answers in a series of essays, one each for 18 of a Peabody winner for his documentary Under Fire: the world’s preeminent conflict photographers. Journalists in Combat. He has published a series of Complementing each essay is a single, iconic seminal studies exploring the psychological effects photograph around which the text is built. The of conflict on journalists covering the , , essays, derived from face-to-face interviews with the , Kenya, , and the refugee crisis in Europe. He photojournalists, relatives, and close friends, give new lives in Toronto, Canada. and revealing insights into those factors, professional and psychological, that motivate photographers to enter zones of conflict repeatedly and the SIR HAROLD EVANS is a British-born journalist and consequences that come from exposure to grave bestselling author of The American Century. He danger. These may include grievous physical injury, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2004 and is the PTSD, moral injury, and prolonged bereavement for recipient of an International Center of Photography colleagues lost. While the text lays bare the traumas Lifetime Achievement Award, two honors among endured, the images speak to the resilience and many he has garnered over the course of a creativity of the photographer in shaping our celebrated career. He lives in and East understanding of war and conflict. Hampton, New York

In addition to opening a new line of investigation into CONFLICT PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDE: photographers and conflict,SHOOTING WAR includes • YANNIS BEHRAKIS • SANTIAGO LYON a definitive foreword by Sir Harold Evans, himself a world- • ALEXANDRA BOULAT • PETER MAGUBANE renowned commentator on conflict and photography. • LAURENCE GEAI • DON MCCULLIN A comprehensive index of photographer biographies • ASHLEY GILBERTSON • TIM PAGE and the wars and conflicts they have photographed • DAVID GUTTENFELDER • CHARLES PORTER is cited. This ground-breaking book will stir interest • CAROL GUZY • SEBASTIAO SALGADO in the essential work of the men and women who, • ROBIN HAMMOND • CHIM SEYMOUR armed with only a camera, venture into the world’s • RON HAVIV • JOAO SILVA most dangerous places. • TIM HETHERINGTON • CORINNE DUFKA

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