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Photographing the War in Afghanistan
Northern Alliance soldiers watch over a Taliban-controlled village October 18, 2001 from Ghowr Band, Afghanistan. The U.S. announced October 17 that it would provide direct aid to groups fighting the Taliban, including the Alliance. (Photo by Tyler Hicks/Getty Images) Email to friend
View galleries from each of the photographers featured on the program, Dan Grossfeld, Tyler Hicks, Ron Haviv, and Scott Peterson.
Photographers in wartime are an elite club, apart somewhat from other correspondents. Cowboys to some, the men and women whose drivers take them closer to the front line than most other journalists even think of going. They are the people who by good luck or clever forethought may produce the image of the conflict by which it is recorded in history. It might be a naked little girl fleeing the heat and the roar of napalm in Vietnam, or an angry crowd in Mogadishu with the body of an American airman. But what responsibilities come with the click of a shutter, and the knowledge that a single frame can help shape popular and political decision? From a world that is dangerous and exhilarating, they are the shooters without guns.
