Friends remembered David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist who worked for the Daily Camera in the 1990s and was killed Sunday in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, as a tremendous talent who thrived on adventure.
His first journalism job was with the Daily Camera. He later joined the Detroit Free Press in 1996 and then began working for NPR in 2007. Gilkey had covered conflict and war in Iraq and Afghanistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“He was always looking for adventure,” said Cliff Grassmick, a Daily Camera photographer. “He was a photojournalist Indiana Jones. He never wanted to settle down.”
Steve Knopper, a feature writer at the Daily Camera in the early ’90s who’s now a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, said Gilkey was only in his 20s but was already “just absolutely a talent. When I worked with him, all I had to do was just shut up and do what he said and try to learn what he did,” he said. “He was so good.”
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