Photos of the mass killing by U.S. Marines have been kept hidden for decades, making the atrocity relatively unknown. Now The New Yorker has released 10 of them.
Tag: Photojournalism
Mideast Photos: Compassion/Geopolitics
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, the U.S. news media suppressed many images of dead and wounded Iraqis so as not undermine the feel-good patriotism, and a similar bias has held true for Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks. But…
Bill Gates v. Photojournalists
Exclusive: Photojournalism, the risky business of capturing images of war and other historic events, is under financial pressure like other aspects of journalism. Some photogs were encouraged when billionaire Bill Gates put himself in the picture in the 1990s, but…