RIP: Photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans Killed by ISIS Sniper in Libya “I’m devastated,” wrote World Press Photo Managing Director Lars Boering yesterday upon hearing that talented Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans had via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/10/03/rip-photojournalist-jeroen-oerlemans-killed-isis-sniper-libya/ “I’m devastated,” wrote World Press Photo Managing Director Lars Boering yesterday upon hearing that talented Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans had been killed…
Photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans Killed in Libya Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlmans, 45, was killed in Sirte, Libya. He was shot by a sniper fighting for ISIS. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/photojournalist-jeroen-oerlmans-killed-libya.html Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said in a statement released yesterday, “Oerlemans is a journalist who kept going where others stopped, driven to put the news into…
Link: Two Journalists Freed by Islamic Fighters in Syria After Weeklong Ordeal – NYTimes.com Dutch freelance photographer Jeroen Oerlemans, contacted by telephone in Turkey, described a harrowing ordeal during which he and his captured colleague, British photographer John Cantile, were held at a camp in Syria by a group of several dozen foreign jihadis, who…
