I worked with photographer Alan Chin covering the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in November of 2001, but then I didn’t see him again until recently, at his apartment in New York City. I wanted to know what he’d learned from being a war correspondent.
Here are a some links to look at more of his work:
www.instagram.com/alanschin/
@alanschin on Twitter
www.muckrack.com/alan-chin
New York, New York
September 11, 2001
Attacks on World Trade Center
Photograph by ALAN CHIN
New York, New York
September 11, 2001
Attacks on World Trade Center
Photograph by ALAN CHIN
Balkh, Afghanistan
December 3, 2001
Northern Alliance soldiers wait in a snowstorm while their commanders negotiate the surrender of a group of Taliban still holding out in Balkh, Afghanistan.
PHOTOGRAPH by ALAN CHIN
Seberghan, Afghanistan
December 2001
Thousands of Taliban soldiers were transported to a prison in Seberghan controlled by Northern Alliance general Abdul-Rashid Dostum.
At least a thousand of those prisoners died en route to prison, either suffocated in overcrowded trucks or helplessly massacred by vengeful Northern Alliance soldiers.
PHOTOGRAPH by ALAN CHIN
BAGHDAD, IRAQ
June 13, 2005
A car bomb, a white Mercedes, exploded next to a primary school in the Yarmouk neighborhood, targeting US vehicles that were carrying an embassy official. 2 US soldiers and 8 Iraqi civilians were wounded. 2 Iraqi police and an Iraqi 12-year old girl, ATHRA ZUGHAYR, were killed. She was the daughter of the school guard; the family lives on site; here her sister (with child) learns the bad news.
PHOTOGRAPH by ALAN CHIN
Baghdad, Iraq
April 18, 2003
Iraqis ride a head of Saddam Hussein being dragged by a truck. They are also beating it with shoes, which is considered to be the most insulting gesture in Iraqi society.
Photograph by Alan Chin
BAGHDAD, IRAQ
May 5, 2005
Remains of suicide bomber who killed 15 people in front of Iraqi Army base, of potential recruits awaiting entry.
PHOTOGRAPH by ALAN CHIN