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War photography
Photographic documentation of wars / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see War photography (disambiguation).
War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places. Photographers who participate in this genre may find themselves placed in harm's way, and are sometimes killed trying to get their pictures out of the war arena.
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