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January 11, 2010
Emilio Morenatti
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---- I didn't know who Emilio Morenatti was before last week, although I know I have seen his pictures both online and in our local newspaper (which carries the Associated Press images). So I dug up a little bit of biography on him:
At the end of 2003 he went to Afghanistan as a correspondent for The Associated Press. Based in Kabul, he covered the democratic process in the country after the fall of the Taliban regime. In 2005, AP sent him to cover the Middle East conflict from Gaza and Jerusalem.
He is currently based in Pakistan, covering Central Asia for AP. Morenatti's many accolades include prizes in The Fuji European Press Awards 1996 and The National Headliner Awards 2005 and 2006. I don't envy the job he is doing, because he is taking photographs sometimes right in the line of fire. It seems quite dangerous to me, short of being right in the war itself. On August 12, 2009, Emilio was injured while on assignment. So thanks to him and others like him who put themselves in harm's way in order to show us true pictures of a world we may never see in person. I have never played billiards next to a gutter full of refuse as these boys are, and the contrast of the happiness of children next to the conditions in which they live is amazing and striking:
Here is the link to Emilio Morenatti's work from the Denver Post. Enjoy, and appreciate. Posted by Hammer at January 11, 2010 03:40 PM |
I have sent a link to a few of my friends to the work of photographer 
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