This is extraordinary on so many levels. It’s also one of the most graphic and disturbing series of photos we’ve seen in a long time. A remarkable example of New York Times inter-active storytelling and reporting across platforms. Huge credit to Daniel Berehulak and Filipino journalist Rica Concepcion for bearing witness. Duterte’s reward for this slaughter and authorised murder campaign is one of President-elect Trump’s first invitations to visit the White House.
Also at the end of this photojournalism documentary a NYT podcast link to an “Inside the Times” conversation with Berehulak about the emotional and psychological price paid to do this assignment. You want to understand how a journalist processes taking these pictures?
Listen to the podcast.
‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’
Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days.
