Several have even been killed by US fire ; two Iraqi journalists working for Reuters were notably strafed by a helicopter during the July 12 , 2007 , Baghdad airstrike , yielding a scandal when WikiLeaks published the video of the gun camera . Hilda Clayton was killed when the mortar she was photographing accidentally exploded . War photographers need not necessarily work near active fighting ; instead they may document the aftermath of conflict . The German photographer Frauke Eigen created a photographic exhibition about war crimes in Kosovo which focused on the clothing and belongings of the victims of ethnic cleansing , rather than on their corpses . Eigen 's photographs were taken during the exhumation of mass graves , and were later used as evidence by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
July 12 , 2007 , Baghdad airstrike
July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike
War photography