Members of the Air Force’s combat camera team spoke with bloggers Tuesday morning about their role in documenting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By shooting photographs, recording video and writing news articles, the Airmen of the combat camera team provide a unique view inside the world of the military during wartime.
Air Force Capt. Phil Ventura, combat camera officer in charge; Staff Sgt. Shawn Weismiller, a photojournalist; Staff Sgt. Stacia Zachary, the team’s print journalist; and Senior Airman Brian Economides, the team’s videographer, spoke about their work and training.
“Our job is to document, but our job is also to tell a story and to tell a compelling story,” Weismiller said. “And throughout my career in the military, we’ve — or I’ve been taught, as well as rest of the photographers in the military, that our job is to tell a story and to tell it with emotion and to tell it in the best light as possible; not to just strictly look through the viewfinder and click the shutter. Every time we take a picture, there’s a purpose and there’s a direction.”
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