The Human Eye by Harald Henden
Third Edition - July 2024
“It gives you a particular feeling, that weird silence.There isn’t a soul in the streets, barely even a single stray dog wandering about. That means something’s off.”
Harald Henden knows what it’s like, the sound of a neighbourhood that’s about to be struck by a missile.
For more than 30 years, he has documented wars and catastrophes as a photographer for VG. In Sudan, a starving child drew his last breath before Henden’seyes. He was with the American forces when they entered Baghdad and captured Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace. Henden has such a vivid memory of the four year old girl who was killed just hours before the ceasefire in Gaza – the last victim he photographed during the conflict in 2012. He himself was shot in the head by a bullet while working on the West Bank in 2003. At Serena Hotel in Kabul in 2008 he lost a beloved colleague, an experience that still causes him anguish to this day.
Since 1991, through war after war, catastrophe after catastrophe, people and their fates have been not just Henden’s working life but his whole life.
A few months ago, while he was on assignment in Israel, he became seriously ill and had to return home to Norway. He was quickly diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and with only a short time left to live.
Throughout his career, with a unique knowledge and integrity, he has been the Norwegian population's gateway to and voice from all the world's conflicts. In the classic photo book "The Human Eye" some of Henden's most important and iconic pictures are presented for the first time. A tribute to an extraordinary photographer and human being. He says that he has taken his last picture. While the book will live on forever.
The book contain text by Morten Rostrup, Brynjar Skjærli, Espen Rasmussen, Julia Ingebrigtsen and Harald Henden.
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ISBN - 9788269361223
Pages - 128
Cover - Hardback
Size - 24 x 30 cm.
Third Edition - July 2024
“It gives you a particular feeling, that weird silence.There isn’t a soul in the streets, barely even a single stray dog wandering about. That means something’s off.”
Harald Henden knows what it’s like, the sound of a neighbourhood that’s about to be struck by a missile.
For more than 30 years, he has documented wars and catastrophes as a photographer for VG. In Sudan, a starving child drew his last breath before Henden’seyes. He was with the American forces when they entered Baghdad and captured Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace. Henden has such a vivid memory of the four year old girl who was killed just hours before the ceasefire in Gaza – the last victim he photographed during the conflict in 2012. He himself was shot in the head by a bullet while working on the West Bank in 2003. At Serena Hotel in Kabul in 2008 he lost a beloved colleague, an experience that still causes him anguish to this day.
Since 1991, through war after war, catastrophe after catastrophe, people and their fates have been not just Henden’s working life but his whole life.
A few months ago, while he was on assignment in Israel, he became seriously ill and had to return home to Norway. He was quickly diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and with only a short time left to live.
Throughout his career, with a unique knowledge and integrity, he has been the Norwegian population's gateway to and voice from all the world's conflicts. In the classic photo book "The Human Eye" some of Henden's most important and iconic pictures are presented for the first time. A tribute to an extraordinary photographer and human being. He says that he has taken his last picture. While the book will live on forever.
The book contain text by Morten Rostrup, Brynjar Skjærli, Espen Rasmussen, Julia Ingebrigtsen and Harald Henden.
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ISBN - 9788269361223
Pages - 128
Cover - Hardback
Size - 24 x 30 cm.
Third Edition - July 2024
“It gives you a particular feeling, that weird silence.There isn’t a soul in the streets, barely even a single stray dog wandering about. That means something’s off.”
Harald Henden knows what it’s like, the sound of a neighbourhood that’s about to be struck by a missile.
For more than 30 years, he has documented wars and catastrophes as a photographer for VG. In Sudan, a starving child drew his last breath before Henden’seyes. He was with the American forces when they entered Baghdad and captured Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace. Henden has such a vivid memory of the four year old girl who was killed just hours before the ceasefire in Gaza – the last victim he photographed during the conflict in 2012. He himself was shot in the head by a bullet while working on the West Bank in 2003. At Serena Hotel in Kabul in 2008 he lost a beloved colleague, an experience that still causes him anguish to this day.
Since 1991, through war after war, catastrophe after catastrophe, people and their fates have been not just Henden’s working life but his whole life.
A few months ago, while he was on assignment in Israel, he became seriously ill and had to return home to Norway. He was quickly diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and with only a short time left to live.
Throughout his career, with a unique knowledge and integrity, he has been the Norwegian population's gateway to and voice from all the world's conflicts. In the classic photo book "The Human Eye" some of Henden's most important and iconic pictures are presented for the first time. A tribute to an extraordinary photographer and human being. He says that he has taken his last picture. While the book will live on forever.
The book contain text by Morten Rostrup, Brynjar Skjærli, Espen Rasmussen, Julia Ingebrigtsen and Harald Henden.
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ISBN - 9788269361223
Pages - 128
Cover - Hardback
Size - 24 x 30 cm.