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The civilian populations of Northern Israel and central and Southern Lebanon lived under siege for nearly 2 months during the late summer of 2006, as the Israeli military and Hezbollah paramilitary forces erupted in conflict in continuation of more than 20 years of fighting along the embattled border since the creation of the borderland buffer zone in 1982.
Following the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, and the ensuing declarations of war, Hezbollah rockets were traded with a massive bombing and shelling campaign by the Israel Defense Forces, trapping the Lebanese government politically between a massively popular insurgent force and international pressure to cease fire. The conclusion found both sides declaring victory and the infrastructure of Lebanon in shambles, with tens of thousands of houses, business, roads, and services destroyed, and more than a thousand dead, mostly in Lebanon, and as many as 1 million people displaced from their lives.
06/05/07 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Great work Stephanie, very strong and personal angle.
Cheers,
Matilde
05/21/07 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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I like what stephanie has tried to do with the images. and yes, there is no such thing as being objective. That’s just bull that journalists like to give each other. And i agree when stephanie says that one can’t be at many places at the same time. It’s unfortunate but people get killed on both sides in every war. What stephanie did was good in her own right, it does take a lot of courage to go out shooting with a war on in your back yard and i truly admire her courage in bringing to those not there during the calamity pictures which i must repeat are quite brilliant. well done stephanie.
04/20/07 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
This is an incredibly angled, one sided and those incomplete documentation of the Lebanon/Israel war. The one sidedness undermines the objectivity and reality of the war. It takes away the depth and sweep of that being documented.
henry Bemis
04/20/07 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Thank for your comments.
While I am not going to get into a debate on the politics of the war last summer, I will tell you that I have no problem admitting that this story is one sided. I am a resident of Lebanon and felt very emotionally invested in covering what was happening to my neighbors, friends and their families.
I am freelance and worked for several international magazines throughout this war, some ran the story as is, some coupled them with photographs from Israel.
That is their editorial decision.
For news situations you cannot be everywhere at once. In this case, I would not have been anywhere else.
Best,
Stephanie
04/20/07 | Nader
Stephanie, Don’t listen to Michael. Thank you for putting your life on the line to bring these compelling images back. There were plenty of people covering what happened in Israel.
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