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Veronica Khokhlova hat in einem Beitrag für Neeka's Backlog - nebenbei bemerkt: eines der besten Weblogs in Sachen Ukraine - auf das 2003 erschienene Buch von Andrei Sharyi hingewiesen: Tribunal: The Chronicle of an Unfinished War ("Prava Cheloveka" Publishing House) hingewiesen. Die Publikation enthält Fotos von Ron Haviv, der nun unter dem Titel Blood and Honey einen Fotoessay ...
... online gestellt hat. Die acht "Kapitel" sind mit
loyalty, reality, war, slaughter, fear and passion, ruin, displacement/replacement, response and failure
übertitelt und enthalten jeweils 11 Bilder sowie kurzen Text dazu.

Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal gibt es (mit Essays von Chuck Sudetic und David Rieff sowie einem Nachwort von Bernhard Kouchner) in gedruckter Form u.a. auch über Amazon zu beziehen. Und: Ron Haviv verweist auch auf das von ihm moderierte Diskussionsforum zu Fragen des Fotojournalismus an Orten des Krieges. Die Einleitung dazu lautet wie folgt:

The Photo Journalist supplies the raw visual data that judgements are based on, and from which decisions are made. We believe the "photograph", even with the knowledge that manipulation of the image is more easily than ever achieved. However, between the photographer and the consumer is a chain of editors who continually make choices that determine the information that reaches the public.
But what of the choices the photographer him/herself makes. Are we aware of this primary filter through which everything passes. Let's consider here the responsibilities of the front-line photo journalist. How does he see his job. What are the ethical issues? The aesthetic?  The professional, making a living,  job related issues? Can the desire of the "committed"  photo journalist to show the world the "truth" ever be fully realized? And knowing that there will always be the limitations imposed by the intervening editors, where does he point his camera?
We are pleased to have Ron Haviv moderating this forum. BLOOD & HONEY documents his committment to communicating the tragedy that overtook The Former Yugoslavia. He has confronted all the issues that affect the work of the photo journalist and we look forward to your contributions.

Nur schade, dass dieses Diskussionsforum weniger gut funktioniert, denn die Bilder im Kopf.