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The French photographer covered numerous conflicts throughout his career, including the Six-Day War in Israel, the Vietnam War, and the Nigerian Civil War.
Hilda Clayton was documenting a live-fire exercise with Afghan troops when a mortar shell exploded while in the launch tube. Clayton is believed to have taken this photo at the exact moment of the fatal explosion. Hilda Clayton and four Afghan National Army soldiers died as a result. Clayton was only 22 years old.
Nagai was one of the victims. A stray bullet was claimed, but a video showing a soldier pointing a rifle at the photographer before he fell to the ground indicated otherwise. Nagai was 50 years old.
Hilda Clayton was a United States Army combat photographer. In 2013, Clayton was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Caron (larger portrait) went missing in 1970 in Cambodia when he was 30. He had traveled to the country to cover the coup and was never seen again. Gilles Caron was declared dead on September 22, 1978.
On September 27, 2007, Kenji Nagai was covering the Saffron Revolution in Yangon, Myanmar, when troops took to the streets and opened fire on protesters.
The Japanese war photographer covered a number of dangerous conflicts, mainly in the Middle East.
The co-founder of Ain Media was shot dead by an Israeli sniper on April 6, 2018, while covering protests in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
In addition to Larry Burrows and Kent Potter, two other war photographers lost their lives on February 10, 1971. They were French photographer Henri Huet (43) and Japanese photographer Keizaburo Shimamoto (34).
Murtaja, aged 31, was shot while wearing a press helmet and vest, and his death sparked a number of protests. An investigation by the Israeli Defense Forces was promised, but it never went ahead.
Chris Hondros lost his life while covering the 2011 conflict in Libya. He died in the same mortar attack as his fellow photojournalist Tim Hetherington. Hondros was 41.
American photographer Chris Hondros is best known for his work as a war photographer for Getty Images.
Kent Potter was an American photographer who covered the Vietnam War for United Press International. He died together with Larry Burrows and two other photographers in the helicopter crash of 1971. Potter was only 23.
Hondros covered several conflicts, including the Second Civil War of Liberia. His photos of former child soldier Joseph Duo (pictured) are among his most acclaimed works. Hondros then traveled to Iraq, where he covered the shooting of an Iraqi family by American troops.
The British photographer spent nine years documenting the Vietnam War. Burrows died on February 10, 1971, when the helicopter he was in was shot down while flying over Laos. He was 44 years old at the time of his death.
In 2011, Tim Hetherington traveled to Libya to cover the civil war. Tragically, on April 20, 2011, Tim Hetherington died in Misrata, Libya, after being hit by shrapnel from a mortar blast by Libyan forces. He was 40.
Hetherington also covered the lives of United States Army soldiers in Afghanistan, which won him the 2008 World Press Photo of the Year.
In 1937, Gerda Taro found herself in a car in Spain during a Republican Army retreat. A tank collided with the car, and Taro was rushed to El Goloso English hospital. She didn't survive the injuries, and instead became the first female photojournalist to die in a war. She was only 26.
The accomplished British photojournalist had a very successful career. Over the years, Hetherington covered several conflicts, mainly in West Africa, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
Being Jewish, Gerda Taro fled her native Germany for France in the 1930s, where she met photographer Tim Gidal and started to take an interest in photography.
Then, in 1934, Taro met Robert Capa in France and they started dating. A year later, Taro was working as a photographer for Alliance Photo. Taro and Capa worked together on numerous projects, including the covering of the Spanish Civil War. In fact, some of Taro's early work was published under the shared alias "Robert Capa."
Robert Capa is one of the world's most famous war photographers. Born Endre Ernő Friedmann in Hungary, he went on to cover a number of conflicts throughout history.
Damien Parer was an Australian war photographer best known for his coverage of World War II.
Palestinian war photographer Yaser Murtaja was known for his human rights-focused work in Gaza.
The official movie photographer to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was killed on September 17, 1944, by Japanese gunfire on the island of Peleliu in Palau. He was only 32 years old.
Sources: (Listverse) (The Digital Journalist) (International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum) (Committee to Protect Journalists)
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The Polish photographer, also known as Chim (sitting right, smoking), was one of the co-founders of Magnum Photos. He covered conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and World War II. David Seymour was killed in 1956 by Egyptian machinegun fire shortly after the armistice of the Suez Crisis. He was 44.
The co-founder of Magnum Photos lost his life while documenting the First Indochina War in 1954. He stepped on a landmine in Vietnam. Capa was 40 years old at the time of his death.
Jeroen Oerlemans was a Dutch war photographer who worked mainly in the Near East and Afghanistan. In 2016, Oerlemans was shot dead by an Islamic State sniper in Sirte, Libya. He was 46.
Capa fled Europe during World War II and started working stateside. He went on to accompany the United States Army, including being part of the documentation of D-Day at Omaha Beach.
For many years now, photographers have risked their lives on the frontline. Carrying a camera instead of a weapon has paid off for many photojournalists reporting on numerous conflicts throughout history, but this was not the case for all. Such assignments are indeed very dangerous, and some photographers didn't live to tell the story. Luckily, their work did, and their legacy lives on.
Click through the following gallery and get to know the brave men and women who lost their lives behind the lens in combat missions.
<p>Capa is mostly known for his 1936 coverage of the Spanish Civil War. This is one of his most famous photographs. Indeed, 'The Falling Soldier' is one of the world's most famous war photos ever.</p>
War photographers killed in combat
Some took award-winning photographs
LIFESTYLE Photojournalists
For many years now, photographers have risked their lives on the frontline. Carrying a camera instead of a weapon has paid off for many photojournalists reporting on numerous conflicts throughout history, but this was not the case for all. Such assignments are indeed very dangerous, and some photographers didn't live to tell the story. Luckily, their work did, and their legacy lives on.
Click through the following gallery and get to know the brave men and women who lost their lives behind the lens in combat missions.