War photographer Joao Silva has revealed that a low-standing canon 5D with a 70-200 mm lens may be attached, maybe he saved his life when he stepped on a mine covering the Afghanistan war in 2010.
Silva, who is the last working member of the veteran Bang-Bang Club, donated 70-200 mm and camera body Museum in The TimesFor official history museum the new York Times,
Silva was on commission Many times On October 23, 2010, investigating a former Taliban checkpoint at Deh-e Kaucha in Kandahar province. As he followed two American soldiers, one of whom was trained to smell explosives near one, Silva stepped on a mine and suffered serious injuries, losing both legs.
At that time, Silva was carrying two cameras. One of them, 5D with 70-200, was connected to an additional-lease strap to swing on its bulletproof vest. Silva believes that the low-cut camera saved a part of the explosion away from its face, limiting the damage caused by the explosion.
Silva Told retired Times Reporter David W. Dunlop 70-200 mm “quite honestly, there is a pain in Butt and I use it very rarely … but when the time came, it probably saved my face-my face-and maybe my life too.”
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recently, Silva goes back to Afghanistan To go to the exact location where he was blown away. In Deh-e-Kah, which is once again under the Taliban control, Silva met a person who handed over flowers to him and said, “In the past, we were planting IED for you … Now we give you flowers.”
After the mine exploded, Silva held his camera and tried to take pictures of his “severed legs” and managed to snap some frames of nearby soldiers, which were relatively unhealthy.
Silva’s bravery and attitude, taking into account The Bang-Bang Club-is a group of four photographers who documented South African apartheid in the early 1990s-the part of which was part.
Silva, who was born in Portugal, but when he was a young boy, went to South Africa, began to cover the struggle in a township like Sweeto. They met Kane Oosterbrook, Greg Marinovich and Kevin Carter, together known as The Bang Bang Club, who is immortal in the book co-writer with Marinovich, who is co-writer with Marinovich, The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a hidden war,
The canon 5D of Silva and the remains of 70–200 mm are displayed in the museum on time.
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