New York Times Photographer Has Legs Blown Off, Takes More Pictures
Joao Silva, a photographer for The New York Times, was working alongside troops in Afghanistan last year when he stepped on a landmine. The explosion cost him both his legs, but what did Silva do immediately after it happened? He took three pictures and then called his wife:
Immediately, there were medics working on me. I picked up a camera, shot a few frames. The frames weren’t very good, quite frankly, but I was trying to record.
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