Michael Yon.: Journal Entry

After college with my major in Visual Arts with an emphasis in Photography i was thinking about becoming a photojournalist. I want to be a photojournalist because i want to capture the pictures out there of people in poverty or people that are suffering from a disease or cancer. I want to travel to different countries and then bring back the photos and share them. I was looking around and getting information about it and i came across a photojournalist named Michael Yon. Though i was doing some research on him and his technique on taking pictures i found one of his pictures that really stood out to me and made my heart grieve for not only the soldiers but the civilians in iraq that are experiencing. They have to experience it first had and have to go through the war. They have see their loved ones die. Soldiers have to put their life on the line. Some soldiers try and save the children and civilians from the war because they are innocent. 


I found this picture of an American soldier cradling an infant girl and as you can see the blanket the infant is in is covered in blood. After reading about the photo i learned that the child later dies on the helicopter ride to an american hospital for treatment, but this picture shows the love and compassion the soldier had to help save the young boy and try and help him survive. The picture was taken in 2005. The soldiers name is Major Bieger. 





About Yon's Work: He is a former Yon, a freelance journalist with troops and post his photographs online to report the war. He wrote about acts of compassion and heroism that the U.S Army gives to the innocent civilians that are in the war environment. His images are very powerful and can be used to see both sides of the war. The dramatic part of the suffering civilians but also the life of a soldier that is put on the line. By taking the photo's of war, the nature tells a the story, it is not very pleasant, but it helps people understand how they are suffering.