Photographing Afghanistan with an iPhone
Andrew Craft is a photographer based in North Carolina, where he is a staff photographer at the Fayetteville Observer. In April and May of this year he visited Afghanistan to photograph the drawdown of American troops military presence.
CBS News asked him a few questions about his experience photographing Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
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Andrew Craft photographed the U.S. military's drawdown in Afghanistan with his iPhone between shots for the Fayetteville Observer in April and Ma...
CBS News: I take it you went there for the Observer, how long were you there and what was your focus or objective?
Andrew Craft: Yes, I was there for the Observer for a little over a month. Since Fort Bragg is in our coverage area we make regular trips to Afghanistan to cover Fort Bragg soldiers. While there, we covered units from the 82nd Airborne Division, the 18th Airborne Corps and the 1st Theater Sustainment Command. Usually we end up just covering whatever those units are up to, which included guardian angel missions, the descoping of ISAF bases before the hand off to Afghan forces, the hand over of those ISAF bases, the retrosort yards, etc.
CBS News: Where in Afghanistan did you go?
AC: On this trip I covered more ground than I've ever had in a trip. We hit up Kabul, Bagram Airfield, FOB [Forward Operating Base] Ghazni, FOB Lightning, Camp Mike Spann near Mazar-e-Sharif, Hairatan, FOB Tarin Kowt, Kandahar Airfield, FOB Pasab and COP [Combat Outpost] Hutal. The only part of the country we didn't hit up was the western portion of the country.
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Photographing Afghanistan with an iPhone