"The camera acts like a shield"

As a photojournalist, it must be daunting to be dispatched to cover a conflict on foreign soil - but it must be especially discomforting to be asked to cover one raging on your own doorstep.

As was the case for John Filo, who took the famous picture of Mary Ann Vecchio reacting to the shooting of Kent State student Jeffrey Miller in 1970, Bud Lee was left haunted by what he saw at close quarters when photographing the social unrest in Newark for Life magazine in 1967 - perhaps especially because it proved to be his big break.

The powerful images that Lee captured form the substance of The War Is Here, published by Michael Zilkha's imprint ZE Books. Buzz review here.