As the death toll rises in the war between Israel and Hamas, TIME LightBox profiles two photographers who have spent weeks covering the opposing sides: Andrew Katz interviewed Oliver Weiken of European Pressphoto Agency and Olivier Laurent spoke with Getty Images’ Andrew Burton.
we ran into a separate protest: French residents with ties to the Ivory Coast were protesting the French involvement in the Ivory Coast civil war, calling French President Nicolas Sarkozy a war criminal
Andrew Burton, 24, grew up in Australia and Oregon. He graduated from Syracuse University in 2010. He has interned with The Syracuse Post-Standard, Bloomberg News, The Oregonian and Getty Images, and now works as a freelance photographer and multimedia journalist for various organizations, including The New York Times. He covered the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
I only escaped when the soldiers on top of the tank literally ripped me out of the crowd, lifting me by the armpits. I was dumped head first inside the tank. My shit – cameras, cell phone, notepad – everything went flying out of my pockets as I landed amongst the soldiers. As I got myself turned around, I found myself surrounded by 14 Egyptian soldiers – young men my age, smiling at me.
