ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a number of questions confronting the photojournalist committed to recording the plight of human suffering in wartime. In taking as its focus photo-reportage of the recent conflict in Libya, it turns first to the professional context, paying careful attention to issues emergent in media commentaries when four storytellers Michael Christopher Brown, Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros and Guy Martin became the story. Engaged in first-hand photo-reportage of the Gaddafi regime's relentless onslaught of the besieged city of Misrata, they came under direct attack themselves, the blood-stained consequences making news headlines around the world. The chapter assesses the efforts of ordinary citizen photographers intent on covering the conflict, before turning to examine the controversy engendered by media usage of the amateur video imagery of the then leader Muammar Gaddafi's capture and execution.
