War photographer Jason Howe's battle with PTSD
It was Remembrance Sunday 2011, and for the photographer Jason Howe it was his first morning embedded with 1st Bn the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment and 3rd Bn the Royal Regiment of Scotland (Black Watch) in Afghanistan. The soldiers started …
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Paul Hill's best photograph: the day troops arrived in Belfast, 1969
It all kicked off at night, which made photography difficult as I couldn't use my flash for fear of becoming a target. Nevertheless, I became one anyway. I'd been edging towards some disturbance, when a spray of bullets narrowly missed my head. I'm …
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Carrie Mae Weems' best photograph: lobster dinner at the kitchen table
Once I understood what I was actually up to, things began to move very quickly, and I worked on the photographs every single day for months. I milked that terrain. I brought a variety of people into that same room to act out scenes that questioned what …
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