Archive for Photojournalism
Ego search: Jim MacMillan
Posted by: | CommentsIt took me about five minutes to make this ego search report using http://www.youtube.com/searchstories
You could cut that investment in half with a little focus.
15 years ago today: The Oklahoma City Bombing
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Fifteen years ago today, I left Philadelphia to cover the Oklahoma City bombing. Investigators check the damage to the Murrah Federal Building one day later, in the top photo, and 10,000 residents gather for a memorial service several days later, seen in the bottom photo.
Many journalists found this to be one of the most emotionally difficult assignments of our time, but the effects on the Oklahoma City community are still being measured, and the attack foreshadowed more national crises in the years that have followed.
To learn more about journalism and psychologocal trauma, please visit http://dartcenter.org/
10 Years Ago – World Bank/IMF demonstrations in Washington.
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Ten years ago this week, I was covering anti-globalization protesters who were demonstrating during the IMF & World Bank meeting in Washington. There were several clashes with police, and hundreds of arrests.
Iraq War Diary: The Battle of Two Mosques, Mosul, 02.12.05
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Mosul: five years ago today.
“The Battle of Two Mosques” – This entry in my Iraq War Diary recalls a battle between American troops and insurgent fighters in Mosul, Iraq, on February 12, 2005; five years ago today. I have made just a few, minor grammatical corrections to the original post, which was then password-protected and available only to friends and family. I was working as an embedded photojournalist at the time.
Posted by jim on February 17, 2005 at 12:27:37:
A lot of people have been asking me about the other day, when my captions said I was in a four-hour running gun battle, but I was too tired to write, and it takes a few days to catch up on my rest before I find spare time again. (Today, as it turns out, I have a lot of time because I skipped my mission while recovering from a little knee strain, but it’s no big problem.)
I was sleeping-in because I had a late mission, planning to go out at 11a.m. with the battalion commander on his daily “battlefield circulation,” but at about 0930, he sent a runner to grab me in the hooch. He said they were rolling out in five minutes because another convoy was having “contact,” which means fighting.
The Blizzard of 1996
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Philadelphia
With Philadelphia on the brink of its second major winter storm in a week – and third of the season – I was reminded of this photo I made there after the Blizzard of 1996 – still the city’s all-time greatest single storm – which buried the City of Brotherly Love under 30 inches of snow.
