The story and work of Hosam Katan, a Syrian photographer, reveals much about how coverage of the Syrian conflict has changed.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/i-am-not-useful-for-my-camera-if-i-die-a-syrian-photographers-view/
When a Syrian Army sniper shot Hosam Katan in Aleppo in May 2015, Mr. Katan couldn’t feel where the bullet had hit. He hoped it wasn’t his eye or his thigh. In five years photographing the Syrian conflict, he had seen enough colleagues shot to know which wounds were fatal, and which were not. As he lay bleeding, he realized he might soon join Marie Colvin and James Foley on the list of journalists killed covering Syria’s civil war.
Photographer Hosam Katan documents the war in his home country.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/06/29/looking-at-the-war-in-syria-through-a-syrian-photographers-eyes/
For most of the war, journalists have had trouble getting into the country because of the dangers. Many have been kidnapped and killed. And, of course, Syrian journalists have been working under extraordinarily dangerous conditions. Photojournalist Hosam Katan is one of those Syrian journalists, and his new book, “Yalla Habibi: Living with War in Aleppo’” (Kehrer Verlag, 2018), takes us into the conflict that has been ravaging his country for nearly a decade.