Photos from the Front

Because we live in a time of war, one of the best websites of our times is The Digital Journalist. It is a monthly magazine, published only on the web, that features the best war photography of the day and of the past. The current issue includes the timeless work of Larry Burrows from the Vietnam war, as well as an elegiac photo essay by Roger Richards about the Bosnia war (for which I wrote a brief introduction). The webzine’s archives contain a tremendous exhibit of Peter Turnley’s photos from the first Gulf war, as well as an assemblage of frontline pictures from the VII photo agency, which includes Jim Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Chris Morris and John Stanmeyer. The photos on the site are a reminder of everything that politicians and pundits don’t tell you about war.

Author: Peter Maass

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post. View all posts by Peter Maass