2008 South Ossetia War

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Forget the olympics.
 
New and horrifying pictures direct from the front.
 
The only thing I could think of while looking at the pics is that the Photographer is a complete asshole/dick.

Especially that 3rd pic, wtf is wrong with the photographer there? Stupid asshole.
 
Dog-- said:
The only thing I could think of while looking at the pics is that the Photographer is a complete asshole/dick.

Especially that 3rd pic, wtf is wrong with the photographer there? Stupid asshole.
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I dunno. Hiding the bits of war that don't look good isn't my idea of a good photographer.
 
It's not that he's taking bad shots, it's that he's taking pictures of a guy who just lost his son/brother/nephew/friend, taking pictures of a woman caught in wires and shit - she's looking right at him, and all he does is snap a few pictures.

The pic with the tank on the guys car, that's fine ntohing can be done for him anyways, or the pictures of blown up tanks, the picture of solders walking, those are fine, but shit, show some respect for some of these people y'know?
 
Point, but I'm still... ehhhhhh, I really don't know man.
 
Refugee class visa was finished total yesterday night for some family members.


I pats myself on the back.
 
Dog-- said:
It's not that he's taking bad shots, it's that he's taking pictures of a guy who just lost his son/brother/nephew/friend, taking pictures of a woman caught in wires and shit - she's looking right at him, and all he does is snap a few pictures.

The pic with the tank on the guys car, that's fine ntohing can be done for him anyways, or the pictures of blown up tanks, the picture of solders walking, those are fine, but shit, show some respect for some of these people y'know?
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Most war photography is done on the move; you don't have more than a few seconds at most for most cases.

They simply can't help those people. Don't get me wrong, but most of the time you're really helpless in these kind of situations, especially if you're a press member.
 
But... But, your the DEATHMATER, aren't you the master of conflict/death?
 
Conflict and death are different things. One doesn't have to lead to another.
 
Georgians started it - shouldn't have invaded Ossetia.
 
He mates with death and makes little DEATHBABIES.
 
Well I was following this very closely, because little things like that can Flashpoint and escalate into something much worse, apparantly there were reports of the USA and Russia throwing Cold War threats at each other, and then threatening to put a US 'peacekeeping' force into Georgia. But looks like the Ruskies are finally starting pack up and leave.

And Dog, the man is only doing his job, and very good job at that. He is showing the people back home what needs to be seen, the true nature of war. By taking those shots, he will most likely be against war than anyone else here.
 
that third pic is posibly fake,like others ones
 
It actually does - without that we can't learn from the mistakes.
 
Dog-- said:
It's not that he's taking bad shots, it's that he's taking pictures of a guy who just lost his son/brother/nephew/friend, taking pictures of a woman caught in wires and shit - she's looking right at him, and all he does is snap a few pictures.

...show some respect for some of these people y'know?
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dont look at this photo

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Stern your photo made me laugh, now I feel bad.. I'm still laughing though.
 
Dog-- said:
Stern your photo made me laugh, now I feel bad.. I'm still laughing though.
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The man who took that prize winning photo killed himself. He wanted to help, but couldn't because it was too dangerous.
 
Dog-- said:
The only thing I could think of while looking at the pics is that the Photographer is a complete asshole/dick.

Especially that 3rd pic, wtf is wrong with the photographer there? Stupid asshole.
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Dog-- said:
Stern your photo made me laugh, now I feel bad.. I'm still laughing though.
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.....
 
he did commit suicide but he did help the infant

His picture of an emaciated girl collapsing on the way to a feeding centre, as a plump vulture lurked in the background, was published first in The New York Times and The Mail & Guardian, a Johannesburg weekly. The reaction to the picture was so strong that The New York Times published an unusual editor's note on the fate of the girl. Mr Carter said she resumed her trek to the feeding centre. He chased away the vulture.

Afterwards, he told an interviewer, he sat under a tree for a long time, "smoking cigarettes and crying". His father, Mr Jimmy Carter laid last night: "Kevin always carried around the horror of the work he did." - The New York Times
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http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm
 
Man, that article(from what you quoted here) made me think the Jimmy Carter they were talking about was President Jimmy Carter.
 
@Corp. Sheepo: I'm not the one who took the picture, if I was there and had I known the kid wanted to go and eat, I would've helped him.. I found the picture funny because there's a vulture right behind the collapsed kid.. I don't know why I found it funny, but oh well, deal with it!
 
Dog-- said:
@Corp. Sheepo: I'm not the one who took the picture, if I was there and had I known the kid wanted to go and eat, I would've helped him.. I found the picture funny because there's a vulture right behind the collapsed kid.. I don't know why I found it funny, but oh well, deal with it!
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Maybe you find it funny because you've seen my photoshopped animation of it... where the vulture walks off the image.
 
I don't know that you can legitimately think "The guy who takes photos like this is a dick for not helping the people in danger" and then, you know, laugh at images produced.
 
Aside from that, do we really know what he is doing beyond the pictures? Maybe he shoots them and then goes about helping people out carrying bodies and shit?
 
Those Ruskies are going to strain a muscle if they don't stop flexing pretty soon.
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
It actually does - without that we can't learn from the mistakes.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. Do we actually need someone to start a war to know that people will die, homes will get destroyed, and the land will burn to ashes?


Or that you need great military strength to survive in this world?
 
How is it the responsibility of the photographer to save people? There are armored and armed soldiers about, but its the photographer's job to save all the people he sees?
 
The worst part in all the pictures of war is the blankness of the eyes. It always gets me, the terror and the destruction of hope in people's eyes.
 
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