Escape from Syria: Photographs by William Daniels

When we arrived in Bab Amr, we began to send emails to editors saying we were there. We were excited, happy. Of course we were scared of the situation but we were happy.

Then on the first morning, the shelling began very close to us. One boom, then a second. On the third the Syrians with us shouted “You have to get out!” Then the fourth rocket hit. We lost Marie Colvin, the American reporter, and my friend Rémi Ochlik, a photographer. The correspondent for Le Figaro, Edith Bouvier, was badly injured, as was Paul Conroy, a British photojournalist