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from Photographers Blog:
Helpless in an explosion’s wake
Kabul, Afghanistan
By Omar Sobhani
Last Friday was a public holiday here in Afghanistan but I was on call and had gone for lunch in Kabul with my friends. Our relaxing day was interrupted by a huge explosion.
It took little time to figure out what was going on. As on most days, working or not, I carry my cameras so I jumped in my car and rushed towards the noise. My colleague Mohammad Ismail, who was enjoying a day off also, heard the explosion and called me as I headed towards the scene saying that he was coming to help cover the story. I spoke to my text and TV colleagues at Reuters bureau although the sound of the attack was too loud to hear easily but they were well aware of the incident.
As a safety measure I kept colleagues in the bureau informed of our plans and movements.
I left my car with my friend, put on my protective gear and continued on foot as the police had blocked all roads in the area. These kinds of incidents are not new to us and we are well practiced in how to react. We work with safety in mind and coordinate with our Kabul bureau. While shooting pictures I assessed the situation around every second and moved ahead cautiously.
from Full Focus:
Boston Marathon bombing
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing at least three people and injuring more than 170 others.
from Photographers Blog:
“I felt like it was the end of the world”
Beirut, Lebanon
By Maria Semerdjian
Joziane Shedid - that was her name.
After a difficult search, we had managed to identify the blood-soaked young woman in a picture taken by Reuters photographer Hasan Shaaban in the wake of a powerful bomb explosion in Beirut.
We found it difficult to identity the girl because at first we didn’t realize she was the older sister of Jennifer Shedid, another bomb victim Hasan photographed that fateful day, who was even more severely injured and almost lost her life.
from Photographers Blog:
Flashback to the Bali blasts of 2002
By Beawiharta
A ceremony to remember the victims of a bomb blast that struck a busy street on a Saturday night in 2002, killing 202 people.
Today's ceremony carried me back to 10 years ago, where shops were burned and damaged. The bomb had left a big hole in Legian Street. That Sunday morning in 2002 was bright, with good weather and a blue sky as I entered Kuta beach's Hard Rock Hotel. It was a different atmosphere; the situation wasn't relaxing on the resort island. It was on high alert with security personnel covering the streets. Police, local security people called “pecalang” always asked for ID. If someone didn't have ID, they couldn't enter the hotel area or walk the streets.
from Photographers Blog:
Photographer vs. wild cow
By Joseba Etxaburu
I'm a fireman and photo stringer for Reuters. I have been coming to the San Fermin festival for the past 12 years.
Every year I try to find new images and new ways to tell the stories we see. One of the events I usually cover is the release of wild cows into the bullring following the running of the bulls. A young cow chases revelers around knocking them down and occasionally tossing them.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
Throw it! What are you waiting for?
Mr. Blog Guy, let me say we appreciate you cooperating with this Senate investigation into journalistic practices. I know you're a busy blogger.
Anything I can do to help Senator. I'm happy to testify.
Now, during your years as a wire service reporter, can you give us an idea what your daily expenses were like? Remember, you are under oath.
from FaithWorld:
Egypt vows crackdown after 12 die in Christian-Muslim strife
(Soldiers stand guard near the Saint Mary church which was set on fire during clashes between Muslims and Christians on Saturday in the heavily populated area of Imbaba in Cairo May 8, 2011/Asmaa Waguih)
Egypt's government announced measures to curb religious violence on Sunday after 12 people died in clashes in a Cairo suburb sparked by rumors that Christians had abducted a woman who converted to Islam. The fighting on Saturday was Egypt's worst interfaith strife since 13 people died on March 9 after a church was burned, and it threw down a new challenge for generals ruling the country since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February.
from Photographers Blog:
The most painful story
EDITOR'S NOTE: Last Thursday, April 7, a gunman entered under a false pretext the Tasso da Silveira school in a Rio de Janeiro suburb, carrying two pistols and dozens of rounds of ammunition. An alumnus himself of the same school where he had a history of being bullied and mental illness, he lined children up facing the wall and shot two dozen of them, before turning the gun on himself. Twelve students were dead, and others are still agonizing in the hospital.
This is the most painful type of story for most photographers, when a senseless tragedy involves children. The two Reuters photographers who covered the shooting and subsequent funerals speak here of their experiences, and how they coped professionally and personally.
from FaithWorld:
Anti-Western messages grow among Afghanistan’s imams
(Hazrat Ali mosque in Kabul March 21, 2010/Ahmad Masood)
Enayatullah Balegh is a professor at Kabul University and preaches on Fridays in the largest mosque in central Kabul, where he advocates jihad, or holy war, against foreigners who desecrate Islam. After a fundamentalist U.S. pastor presided over the burning of a copy of the Koran last month, there has been a growing perception among ordinary people that many of the foreigners in Afghanistan belong in just one category: the infidels.
"The international community and the American government is responsible for this gravest insult to Muslims," Balegh told Reuters in the blue-and-white tiled Hazrat Ali mosque. "I tell my students to wage jihad against all foreigners who desecrate our religious values. We have had enough."
from FaithWorld:
Taliban suicide blasts at Sufi shrine in Pakistan kill 41
(Bodies of victims lie at the site of a Sufi shrine hit by Taliban suicide bomb attacks in Dera Ghazi Khan April 3, 2011/Sheikh Asif Raza)
Two Taliban suicide bombers caused carnage on Sunday at a Sufi shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores in the latest bloody attack on minority religious groups. Police said some 65 people were wounded. They said the attackers struck during an annual ceremony for the Sufi saint to whom the shrine is dedicated.
