A Teenage Photographer Witnessing Syria’s War – The New York Times

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A Teenage Photographer Witnessing Syria’s War

The flood of Kurdish refugees into Turkey compelled a young photographer to ditch school and travel to the border with Syria, where he documented Kurdish fighters clashing with the Islamic State.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/furkan-temir-turkish-witness-to-syrias-war/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0

The Turkish photographer Furkan Temir was still a teenager as he watched his country’s Kurdish population swell because of civilians fleeing the civil war in neighboring Syria. Unable to ignore his urge to document the situation in 2014, he left home one day, telling his parents he was going to school. His real destination would provide an education of a different sort: a battlefield in the northern Syrian border town of Kobani where fighters from the Kurdish diaspora, along with the American-led coalition, were expelling Islamic State forces.