When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

06 March 2009

War (photography) stories

7. True anarchy sucks... forget those tie-dyed, dreadlocked white kids in the university towns who advocate hemp and “anarchy” - if the real thing ever happens here, those assholes will be on the bottom of the food chain....

16. The Serbs will shell a hotel that they know is occupied only by journalists... this is proof that the Serbs have done at least one thing that the rest of the world can understand...

29. Afghan horses have absolutely no feeling in their mouths; reins and bits are for decorative purposes only.... most of the U.S.-supplied Stinger missiles were used to get these creatures to stop.......

32. Drug lords throw amazing parties - somewhere there exists a jungle videotape of me and one of Khun Sa’s top aides (on a stage and backed by a fully electrified band) attempting to entertain 500 Maung Tai Army soldiers with an extremely drunken rendition of “Hotel California”

57. (Also: if the soldiers you are accompanying believe that to die a martyr’s death admits them instantly to Paradise, while you believe that to die a war photographer’s death probably just hurts a lot, these irreconcilable differences should give you pause for reflection).......
Bruce Haley's Tao of War Photography

Hat tip: Kottke

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