I just watched 'Ron Haviv: Freelance' on the Documentary Channel
He's a war photographer, a World Press Award winner.
It's SO sad what happens..
And what happened. In places like Somalia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Haiti, Vietnam, etc.
The main thing I took from the documentary is the description of what it's like for him to return to American society and how he feels like a misfit because of people complaining about relatively incredibly stupid problems, in a world full of gossip. I would add the obsession with celebrity culture is also incredibly retarded in the face of Reality with a capital R in which the most important topics are swept under the rug and forgotten.
A commentator in the movie says war photographers are compelled to return to these situations to find 'something', and will do so until they find it or they die, whichever comes first.
I already wrote about James Nachtway.
One of Ron Haviv's websites is
http://www.photoarts.com/haviv/bloodandhoney/I hate the military. I hate all of them. I hate war. I don't care if the US commands its forces under the title 'Department of Defense.' War is offensive, period. God is a man of war, but only the psy war against war in the first place. You dig?
To appreciate peace, it's unfortunate that we have to vicariously experience war through war photographers, who sometimes pay too high a price for their moral ventures.
