Max Becherer
Polaris Images
New Orleans, LA, USA
Max Becherer is an Islamabad, Pakistan based photojournalist covering Central Asia and the Middle East. Becherer produces still images, video and written content for such clients as The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Stern, Rolling Stone, Men’s Health and Smithsonian. He started working in the region in 2003 when he embedded with American troops during the invasion of Iraq, and since then has worked extensively in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Egypt. Becherer’s image of U.S. Marines fighting in Fallujah during the 2004 assault on the city made the cover of Time magazine. While working in Afghanistan, he obtained exclusive photos and audio of a group of American soldiers later charged with war crimes. Becherer spent six months of each year as part of The New York Times Baghdad bureau from 2005 to 2008 where he had more than a dozen front-page images and wrote the newspaper’s inaugural “At War” blog post. (www.maxbecherer.com)
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- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Medical
- Portrait
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- Video capture
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