Christopher Sims

American Photographer Christopher Sims body of work of the American naval base and detention centre Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo infamous for its detention and interrogation. Christopher has focused on as he puts it "The stage sets, rather than the players" as restrictions by the military meant no photos of the detainees could be made.

Images © Christopher Sims

Peter Van Agtmael

Magnum photographer Peter Van Agtmael.

Images © Peter Van Agtmael.

Rachel Papo

Israeli Photographer Rachel Papo's 'Serial No. 3817131'. Rachel herself served in the Israeli Airforce as a photographer.

Images © Rachel Papo

Stuart Griffiths

Stuart Griffiths was a paratrooper and then returned to the UK became homeless, now Stuart is a photojournalist photographing the stories of the men who return from war to try and re-intergrate themselves.

Images © Stuart Griffiths

Kael Alford

Photo journalist Kael Alford's photos are from Iraq which was exhibited as a group entitled 'unembedded' taking it's name from the fact that the four photographers where not attached to us millitary personal and thus were able to document stories unnrepresented in the mainstream media. Kael's photos from the series 'Bottom of 'da boot' are also amazing, you can see them here.

Images © Kael Alford

Michael Kamber - Military Censorship

Restrepo

This looks really interesting.

Baptiste Giroudon

Amazing portraits from Afganistan by Baptiste Giroudon. So refreshing to see positive photography from an area when the majority of news is negative.

Images © Baptiste Giroudon

Paolo Pellegrin

Photographs from Paolo Pellegrin's Double Blind one of the best photobooks of recent years.

James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey is considered by some as the greatest modern day war photographer,his approach definitely follows Capa's first rule of war photography ' to get close' he calls it "in the same intimate space that the subjects inhabit," and that sense of closeness is passed on to the viewer. In this video James is discussing how wish to photograph the outbreak of a new drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.




The beginning is the same in this video, but James goes on to showcase his life's work. If you can find it watch war photographer, which follows James around several conflict zones, it's amazing how quiet he works and moves around his subjects.

An-My Le

So in an attempt to get me using the library more than just research for my projects each week the aim is to showcase

a book, first up is An-My Le's Small Wars which is broken up into 3 black and white photo essays; Viet Nam, Small Wars

29 Palms. Viet-Nam the homeland of the photographer shows us the country in not the war torn, poverty stricken country

that we know from the 60's, but an updated version of the mid 90's of growth and regeneration, there are subtle reminders

of the past, a bullet ridden wall, a destroyed building the backdrop for a farmers field.

Small wars the first series of staged wars shows Viet-Nam veterans re-enacting scenes from the Viet-Nam war in a forrest in

Virginia.

29 Palms presents an American West being used to perform the war in Iraq, training the marines for the conditions they

are going to endure when in battle, a performance the marines pay three different roles, that of themselves but also both as I

Iraqi police and terrorists with anti-American graffiti in the villages and the marines, the scenes are so realistic that if the context

was not given you may be mistaken to believe they are actually images from the war itself.

Anyway here are some images from the book.