Two YPG fighters stand in a damaged garage in the Sheikh Maqsood District of Aleppo, Syria on April 20, 2013. The YPG (Popular Protection Units) of the Kurdish Democratic Union…
While documenting a war-torn Syria, photojournalist Nish Nalbandian has seen countless buildings perforated by bullet holes. He’s seen rockets illuminating the night sky. He’s also encountered body parts— limbs and torsos blown off by artillery shells.
Over the last six weeks, five photographers—Maria Turchenkova, Laurent Van der Stockt, Jan Grarup, Ivor Prickett and Emin Ozmen—have documented Iraq’s push against ISIS and the resulting flow of refugees. They speak to TIME LightBox.
Award-winning photographer Nish Nalbandian’s debut monograph A Whole World Blind depicts the realities of Aleppo, Syria where war has become part of everyday life. Shot over the course of a year and a half between 2013 and 2014, Nalbandian’s photos are a honest and uncensored testimony to the strength and vitality of the people living amidst cataclysmic turmoil, from fighters in the thick of the nation’s ongoing civil war to everyday citizens trying to coexist with the nonstop violence.
Gamma: A story of photographers, a story of an agency, one of the best. An Éditions de la Martinère book (Gamma : Une histoire de photographes) is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is astounding. The texts by Hubert Henrotte and Floris de Bonneville are sumptuous. Each week, L’Œil de la Photographie will publish some of the images from what was the golden era of photojournalism.
Jerome Sessini documented the Kurdish Peshmerga offensive against Islamic State (IS) in the city of Bashiq over the last month. Then crossed the region to cover Iraqi forces pushing towards Mosul, the jewel in the crown of towns captured and controlled by IS since 2014. Resistance has been fierce with IS proving an experienced and determined enemy with no fear of death or martyrdom
After a long day in a convoy near Mosul, it seemed safe for a photographer and Iraqi troops to exit their vehicle. Suddenly someone screamed, “Car bomb!”
“Sirte has the same neighborhoods, the same streets and buildings — only they are five years older, as are the eyes of those who fought,” says photographer Fabio Bucciarelli
Photographer Emilien Urbano’s project “War of a Forgotten Nation” takes us on a visceral, sometimes visually poetic, journey inside the war against the Islamic State. Urbano began the project in August 2014, just two months after Islamic State insurgents staged a surprise takeover of Mosul, one of Iraq’s biggest and most strategically located cities. Urbano’s project follows mostly Kurdish factions battling against the Islamic State and sometimes also against Turkish forces
The black shapes were becoming more focused, until they were sharp as the sun’s rays. A mangled truck here, a charred car there. They were the detritus of an Islamic State suicide bombing that killed dozens of pro-government fighters. We silently stepped out and surveyed the brutality. Our guide told us that men were so obliterated by the power of the blast that their body parts melted in the heat.
The conflict has spread across the country, with the combination of violence, famine and disease developing into a humanitarian disaster. The reportage shows the plight of the civilian victims of the war
A controversy is escalating in Ukraine over a photo that seems to capture the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in a single frame. It could be one of the greatest war photographs ever taken – or a fake.
As we see every couple of months or more, the media and social media was rocked to attention last week by another gripping news photo. This time, the subject was Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old victim of a Syrian, or perhaps Russian airstrike. In the photo, we find him the child from Aleppo sitting alone and in shock in the back of a well-outfitted ambulance.
