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...civil disobedience ended up appearing first in the widely-read pages of Life Magazine, he says, and soon he was traveling to observe Palestinians in Lebanon as a freelance writer and photographer. With any luck, it seemed, Carlson stood on the brink of a successful career as an overseas photojournalist covering some of the most harrowing and important stories in the world...
...DIED. CHARLIE MCCARTY, 88, innovative photojournalist and founder of Reuters News Pictures Service; in Uccle, Belgium. McCarty, who started out as a photographer in San Francisco for a forerunner of United Press International, helped pioneer newspaper use of 35-mm cameras as the United Press photo editor in Dallas. His motto was "Hard work never hurt anyone...
...sculptor is Kate Frobisher, who is recovering from both a serious car accident and the death of her husband Ben, a photojournalist killed in Afghanistan. Ben had been working there with Stephen Sharkey, a writer who witnessed 9/11 in New York City and has returned to the rural northeast of England to write a book about the depiction of war and to nurse the lingering emotional wounds of a marriage that coincidentally died on the same day the towers fell. Settling down not far from Kate, Stephen finds comfort in the arms of Justine, the much younger daughter...
...CHARGED. Two Unidentified Iranian Interrogators, with the "semi-intentional murder" (in the words of the Tehran prosecutor's office) of Canadian photojournalist Zara Kazemi; in Tehran. Kazemi, 54, died of head injuries two weeks after she was taken into custody for shooting pictures outside a prison in the Iranian capital, and officials claimed she suffered a stroke. But after protests by Reporters Without Borders and the Canadian government, they admitted Kazemi died of a hemorrhage caused by a severe blow to the skull...
...boycotted the previous election in 1997. In last month's poll, the Islamic Action Front gained 17 seats in the 110-member assembly, which holds little real power. Disputed Death IRAN Government sources played down a statement by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi that the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was the result of a beating during police interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission is looking into her death, but officials said...