Citation

Stallabrass J, Gilbertson A. J. Vis. Cult. 2009; 8(3): 349-357.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1470412909347693

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The photojournalist, Ashley Gilbertson, and the curator of the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial, Julian Stallabrass, discuss the practice of war photography with particular reference to the Iraq War and the Pentagon’s embedding system. They explore the relations of photojournalists with soldiers and the public, the military’s efforts at public relations, the resistance’s relative lack of interest in the Western media, the restrictions and possibilities offered by embedding, the ethics of photojournalistic practice, and the marked fall-off in coverage of the Iraq War.