War Photographers
A series of films and interviews with some of the great photographers of war who mentored or inspired me at the beginning of my career, and some of my dear friends, who have died but continue to be very present in my life.
Neil Davis
Tasmanian Neil Davis is regarded by many as the greatest war cameraman. He covered Vietnam and Cambodia, generally from the perspective of indigenous soldiers before being killed in a failed coup in Thailand.
Alexandra Boulat
Alex was one of my dearest friends and one the original founders of VII. She died in 2007, aged 45. She was restless, inquisitive, passionate and utterly committed to her craft. She was also funny, brilliant, compassionate and brutally honest.
Don McCullin
A film by Jacqui & David Morris about an English photographer who became a benchmark for all photographers of war who followed him.
Philip Jones Griffiths
One of the last speaking engagements by the great Welsh photographer Philip Jones Griffiths at the Frontline Club in London, just before he lost his long brave fight with cancer. After I first saw his book Vietnam Inc Philip became one of the greatest inspirations in my life and later on I was honored to have him as a mentor and friend.
A beautiful film made by Philip's partner Donna Ferrato that reveals so much about this great mans character, wit, intellect and resolve - in his own words and those of his friends and colleagues.
Larry Burrows
The original rare interview and footage of English war photographer Larry Burrows (who was killed in a helicopter crash during the war in Vietnam in 1971) that I posted here has been removed from You Tube. Here, are excerpts and a short memorial from some of his colleagues. Some of his work can be seen here.
Tim Page
Tim Page was a legendary British war photographer immortalised in Michael Herr's Vietnam reportage classic, Dispatches. His story inspired me to leave home and make my first adventures overseas. I had the fortune to meet him when I was 21. I asked him the best way to become a photographer. "Get a job at a newspaper and wait for someone above you to die, or just go out and do it" he told me. I went out and did it. He became a dear friend who helped me significantly at the beginning of my career.
Tim Page Obituary
David Douglas Duncan
Interview with David Douglas Duncan about his coverage of the Marines in the Korean war.
Gilles Peress
My complex mentor Gilles Peress. Gilles and I spent many weeks on the road in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990’s and those experiences were some of the most formative of my life.
Robert Capa
The only known recording of Robert Capa
Tim Hetherington
Tim was killed in Misrata, Libya aged 41 in April 2011. He was one of the most gifted, articulate, and inquisitive photographers and filmmakers of the age. We were supposed to meet in Cambridge, Massachusetts in April and he called me to tell me he couldn’t come because he was heading to Libya to cover the ‘Arab Spring’. He shared with me his frustration that having missed the invasion of Iraq in April 2003 he was never able to get assigned there during the war, he felt that missing the beginning of the war in Libya may have the same consequence so he thought he ought to go. A few weeks later he was dead.
Charlie Company. CBS
A groundbreaking film by Jack Laurence and CBS. The World of Charlie Company is a one-hour film documentary made in 1970. Laurence and his crew spent more than five months embedded with Charlie (C) Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division The cinematographer was Keith Kay, the sound technician was James L. Clevenger and the producer in New York was Russ Bensley. Dana Stone worked briefly on the film as a cameraman.
The World of Charlie Company received the George Polk Memorial Award from the Overseas Press Club of America for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad." It also received an Emmy, a Columbia DuPont and several other awards for broadcast journalism.