CBC Documentary on War Photographers

4/12 CBC Documentary: BEYOND WORDS:
"[In Liberia] they stripped this man down to his underwear and we realized that they were going to execute him. It happened so fast.As I developed these pictures I thought: I hope these pictures come out because they're going to be very dynamic images. But I also felt physically sick because someone had just been murdered in front of me. I wanted for my own sense of ego to please my bosses and my organization, but on the other hand it was at the expense of a man's life." - CORRINE DUFKA

The film describes how war journalism and photography wreck one's sense of humanity as war photographers become equally shell-shocked at what they've seen. It reveals how working in war zones made them into depressed and introverted people. Adrenalin rushes freak their systems, images they've captured mess with their heads for years, some ended up divorced and live secluded lives. A few have given up the job entirely. One felt there's no more peace for them even after the war is over. You could see it in their sad aura...

Corrine filmed this video of a young man shot at the back, and lying down on the ground trying to grasp some more air, was approached by one gunman and shot in the head. All in one frame...blood spattered on the ground.

The documentary is a moving piece of history about people we never see, people that shoot the headlines. "If one person is moved into action, into doing something, then our job is done, and well done."