Overseas Press Club Photo Awards – The New York Times

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Overseas Press Club Photo Awards

A Syrian freelance photographer covering the conflict in his homeland for Reuters took the top award in this year’s Overseas Press Club contest.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/overseas-press-club-photo-awards/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0

Bassam Khabieh, a Syrian freelance photographer covering the conflict in his homeland for Thompson Reuters, has won the Robert Capa gold medal from the Overseas Press Club. The award, for the “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise,” was given to Mr. Khabieh for his dramatic photographs of a field hospital in Douma, a Damascus suburb.