Shots from the edge : a photojounalist's encounters with conflict and resilience / Greg Marinovich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marinovich, Greg.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War photography.

Photojournalism.

Photojournalists.

Africa.

Marinovich, Greg.

Photojournalists--Africa--Biography.

Photojournalism--Africa.

War photography--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : Penguin Books, 2019.

Summary:

Award-winning photojournalist Greg Marinovich has covered war and conflict throughout Africa and the world. In Shots from the Edge he recounts his experiences in these hotspots, and recalls his encounters with rebels, child soldiers, illegal immigrants, militia members, peacekeepers, aid workers, genocide survivors and orphans, each with a remarkable story to tell. With compassion and care, Marinovich documents more than two decades' worth of turbulent history and reveals the human side of the conflicts. Some of the moments are deeply moving and profound; others so surreal as to blur into insanity. Covering South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Chechnya, India, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Trump's America, this book exposes the reader to extraordinary people, places and experience. The accounts in Shots from the Edge are insightful, tragic, shocking and occasionally humorous, but above all they are a poignant reminder of the brutality and indignity of war, and of people's resilience under the most hostile circumstances.

Contents:

Bulletproof hearts: Lašva Valley, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1992-93 - Disturbed dreams: Mogadishu and Sagaalaad, Somalia, 1993-94 - Sharia: Madina District, Somalia, 1994 - Truth elusive: Johannesburg, South Africa, 1994 - Strange sanctuary, Luanda, Angola, 1994 - Journey through Mozambique, Mozambique, October 1994 - God's hand. Goma, Zaire, 1994 - Land of infinite sorrow, Kigali and Gatonde. Rwanda. 1995 - Aliens, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1995 - Trail of revenge, Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, 1995 - The cigarette ware, Belaur, Bihar province, India, 1995 - Written in blood and tears, Grozny, Chechnya, 1995 - Saudi, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 1996 - Fashion in grey, Pretoria, South Africa, 1996 - The adoration of Abu Ammar, Hebron, Palestine, 1997 - The Lord's Children, Gulu, Northern Uganda, 1998 - Ma Afrika, Sharpeville, South Africa, 1960 - Magical idealism, Soweto, South Africa, 2000 - Small boys, big guns, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2004 - Fence-jumping, Beitbridge border post, South Africa-Zimbabwe, 2007 - Bitter fruit, Thokoza, South Africa, 2011 - A tortured tree, small koppie, Marikana, May 2013 - Trump time: Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2016.

Notes:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Alan Paton Award.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781776094011

1776094018

OCLC:

1121164648