NYTimes slideshow on how embeds cover war.

Interesting slideshow about how photographs of the military are controlled and how the photographers who cover Iraq were treated when certain images reached the public. Could be a great classroom discussion project for photojournalism classes in the fall!

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/25/world/middleeast/20080726_CENSOR2_index.html

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Andrea Bruce’s picture posts from Iraq

I don’t know if you know this but our intrepid friend Andrea Bruce from The Washington Post has a weekly photocolumn in the International section of the Post called “Unseen Iraq.”

(I know this because I am one of the few people left who still actually SUBSCRIBES DAILY to the Post…well, that and Andrea told me to look for it…either way, subscribe to the paper! You won’t be disappointed!)

Click here to see the posts and archives.

I know being away from home for months at a time in a foreign land can get lonely and depressing at times, no matter how much you love your ex pat friends. So if you get a chance to shoot her an email and say “Good job” or “Keep your spirits up,” I bet she’d appreciate it.

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