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War Photographer: The Backstage Story

Thomas Dworzak introduced me to this war photographer a couple of days ago. To protect his identity we are simply going to call him "Mr. War Photographer". I had some very interesting discussions and hour long talks with Mr. War Photographer at the Magnum Office. Well actually he doesn't like to talk that much but he is at least a good listener and a very interesting guy. Mr. War Photographer recently got a new assignment to document inner city life of the New York City Magnum office. He started his journey through Magnum New York today and I was privileged to join him.
We had sort of a rough day together. We muddled through all areas of the office, got to see the ups and downs, got to see heart rending moments in the cultural department and burning heads in the accounting department. We've been witnessing dramatic moments of life and in the middle of the chaos we found moments of hope and humanity.

After this time of combat photography in the middle of the Magnum office Mr. War Photographer decided to put away his bulletproof vest to take the next step documenting the aftermathes of all this. He decided to photograph on the fire escapes looking for remaing traces of the current situation.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on August 18, 2005 11:57 PM