Accidents will happen

How do you make a name for yourself in an over-subscribed profession like photography, where perfection is often just a minimum criterion for entry?

Well — as much as who you know, who and what you photograph — luck and accident seem to play a large part in it.

Simon Towler takes a look at the lucky strokes that have helped some photographers make their name.

Anastasia Taylor-Lind with women of the PKK in Iraq

Excerpt from a BBC documentary on war photography. This uncritical excerpt features photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind’s photographs and video diary from a trip to document the Women guerrilla soldiers of the PKK in Kurdistan, Iraq.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hds0c_AjlI8