Iraq, 2005: By 2005
an independent documentary producer and filmmaker, Bill Gentile traveled
to Iraq to shoot a film on a single platoon of the 24th Marine Expeditionary
Unit (MEU), then based at Iskandariyah, about 35 miles south of Baghdad.
The trip resulted in a story on the PBS program “NOW With David
Brancaccio.” Gentile also produced a 30-minute documentary, “Nothing
for Granted: A Marine’s Journey,” about one man’s
odyssey from his hometown in Maine, to Iraq and then back home again.
Following are some of the still images he made during his trip.
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West Africa, 2002:
On assignment to film a documentary series on Doctors Without Borders
for National Geographic Television, Bill Gentile took along a still
camera. These are some of the images he returned with.
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Post 9/11 Afghanistan:
Only weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
Bill Gentile traveled to Afghanistan to film a documentary in the northern
part of the country controlled by the Northern Alliance. He took along
a still camera and these are some of the images he returned with.
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Persian Gulf War,
1991-92: In addition to covering breaking news and features in Latin
America and the Caribbean, as Newsweek Contract Photographer Bill Gentile
also responded to major news events outside his regular territory.
In the early 1990s, he traveled to the Persian Gulf region to cover
the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Haiti invasion, 1994:
By 1994 Bill Gentile was in transition from photojournalism to video
journalism. The U.S. invasion of Haiti was one of his last major assignments
as still photographer.
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Salvadoran Civil War:
As the Contra War raged in Nicaragua during the 1980s, Salvadoran leftist
guerrillas struggled to topple the U.S.-backed regime in nearby El
Salvador. By then Newsweek Magazine Contract Photographer for Latin
America and the Caribbean, Bill Gentile spent much of that decade covering
the Salvadoran Civil War, as well as the conflict in Nicaragua.
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Bill Gentile is one of the few American journalists who covered Nicaragua's 1979 Sandinista Revolution and then returned to cover the U.S.-backed Contra War during the 1980s. During the Contra War, he published his book of photographs, "Nicaragua." Following are a few images from that book.
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Sandinista
Revolution Photos: Bill Gentile is one of the few American correspondents
to cover both the 1979 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua as well as
the U.S.-sponsored Contra War against the Sandinista government ruling
Nicaragua in the 1980s. He made his book of photographs, Nicaragua,
during the Contra War.
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