The Shot

The Adrenalin-Charged and Action-Packed life of Australian Combat Photographer Gary Ramage. He goes where the troops to - but with a camera, not a Gun. As a war photographer - and former soldier - Gary Ramage has been in and out of just about every conflict zone that Australia has been involved in over the last two decades. He's been embedded with troops, lived, eaten and slept alongside them. Through good times and bad times, through rocket attacks, firefights and funerals, from photographing mass graves in Kosovo to being under rocket attack alongside Aussie soldiers in Afghanistan, he's been there and documented it. It takes special grit to be a combat photographer - it's an extreme and dangerous job. Risk comes with the territory. This is a high adrenalin, sometimes moving, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, entirely gripping story of a man who's living an extraordinary life, documenting some of the most confronting and moving moments in international conflicts and our recent history. Here is the story behind the pictures.