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Kate Geraghty
Kate Geraghty (born 1972) is an Australian war photographer, and photojournalist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', and ''The Age'' and five time Walkley winner. Career Geraghty started photographing professionally at Albury-Wodonga's ''The Border Mail'' in 1997, and photographing sport was formative; on one occasion she counted twenty-seven of her own pictures in one Monday-morning edition, a large number of them pictures of local sporting competitions that typically required her on any Saturday to cover "half a quarter of an AFL match, driving 100 kilometres to make the second half of a hockey match ... you'd cover at least seven games in the one day." When the newspaper refused to send her to East Timor to record the 1999 crisis, she took her holiday there to take photographs that were then published. Geraghty then freelanced in Cambodia and Australia, photographing the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2001 she joined ''The Sydney Morning Herald,'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Photography
War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places. Photographers who participate in this genre may find themselves placed in harm's way, and are sometimes killed trying to get their pictures out of the war arena. History Origins With the invention of photography in the 1830s, the possibility of capturing the events of war to enhance public awareness was first explored. Although ideally photographers would have liked to accurately record the rapid action of combat, the technical insufficiency of early photographic equipment in recording movement made this impossible. The daguerreotype, an early form of photography that generated a single image using a silver-coated copper plate, took a very long time for the image to develop and could not be processed immediately. Since early photographers were not able to create images of moving subjects, they recorded more sedentary aspects of war, such as fortifications, soldiers, and land before and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
