Photo by Brian Palmer.
Brian Palmer – photographer, writer, teacher and filmmaker – gives a preview of his first documentary film, on his experience as an embedded journalist during the war in Iraq: “There were times when I did not ask hard questions I should have, that I put my camera down when I should have shot. Later, I recognised it as a subconscious desire to protect the young men I was with. Proximity and dependence breed affinity. That is the genius of the Pentagon’s embedding system.”
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