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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 6
It may be summer in the high Himalayas, but photographer Robert
Nickelsberg borrowed a heavy-duty arctic snowsuit to cover this
week's story on war on the Siachen Glacier between India and
Pakistan. Just as well: he was stranded by a blizzard at a military
camp 17,400 ft. up. Later, during an artillery exchange,
Nickelsberg tried to dash to a better position only to discover
that the thin air made it "nearly impossible to run." The rigors
behind him, Nickelsberg sent back the first combat pictures seen
in the West of this little-known conflict.
Such effort is frequently the norm for our photographers, as
major picture essays appear in the magazine almost every week. Some
assignments are long planned, then take on special urgency after
they get under way. When TIME's White House photographer Diana
Walker began shooting for her May 22 essay on a day in the life of
the President, she had no idea that George Bush would be facing a
foreign policy crisis over Panama. Busy as he was, the President
still went out of his way to ask, "How can I help make your job
easier today?" Chimed in White House photographer David Valdez:
"Just pretend she isn't here."
When Hong Kong photographer Robin Moyer went to Beijing in
mid-May, it was for what he considered a "simple assignment": to
cover the visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Very
quickly, says Moyer, "it became obvious that the story was the cry
for democracy in Tiananmen." His assignment stretched into weeks,
until the fatal night of the military crackdown. "No picture is
worth risking your life for," says Moyer, "but at night everyone
just went out, snapping away, oblivious to the dangers."
That kind of enterprise has brought TIME shooters a raft of
awards this year, including top honors in photojournalism's three
major competitions: the University of Missouri Magazine
Photographer of the Year, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa
Gold Medal and the World Press Photo's Oskar Barnack Award.