This week revealed that New York Times photographer João Silva has been severely wounded while shooting in Afghanistan recieving severe damage to his legs and internal injuries.
The photographer and New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall were embedded with a unit of the 4th Infantry Division. A group of minesweepers and bomb-sniffing dogs had already moved over the area several steps ahead of Mr. Silva when the bomb went off," writes Dexter Filkins of the New York Times.
Silva has photographed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, southern Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East, the newspaper continues. "João is the state-of-the-art war photographer, fearless but careful, with an amazing eye," says Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times. "We’re all waiting anxiously and praying for his quick recovery."
Silva made his name in South Africa when, in the 1990s, he was part of what was known as the Bang-Bang Club, a group of four photographers who worked in South Africa after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and up-until the first elections in 1994.
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