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A couple of commenters have suggested — quite correctly — that this post is incomplete without mention of Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency. He died Jan. 17 in Tunis after being hit on the head three days earlier by a tear gas canister during rioting in the capital. Examples of Mr. Dolega’s work can be found on the agency’s Web site.



Moises Saman, a Magnum photographer on assignment to The New York Times, was mildly injured at dusk on Tuesday when he was assaulted by a group of about half a dozen police officers, David D. Kirkpatrick reports from Tunis. Mr. Saman was attempting to photograph a group of police officers beating a man in an alley off the main Avenue Bourguiba. The police noticed Mr. Saman’s camera and attacked him without explanation.

In an interview three months ago with Joel Meares of the Columbia Journalism Review (“Q. & A.: War Photographer Moises Saman,” Oct. 26), Mr. Saman discussed the perils and challenges of conflict photography. “The hardest part about this job is figuring out where to be and when to be there,” he told Mr. Meares. “A lot of it is pure luck and a lot of it is trying to trust your instincts, which takes time and experience.”

“If you do this long enough,” Mr. Saman added, “you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation, unfortunately.” The interview occurred shortly after Joao Silva‘s devastating injury in Afghanistan. But Mr. Saman concluded, “I still feel strongly that it’s very important to have independent journalism, especially from conflict zones.”