Thursday, April 18, 2013

Attention!!! Photo Pulitzer Prize Winners (the Associated Press journalists)

The following photos are taken from the BBC, Ironchef's World and the TIME Light Box web-sites.

WARNING!
This gallery contains pictures some readers might find disturbing.

1. Rodrigo Abd


In 2011 Abd covered the revolution in Libya and in 2012 the conflict in Syria. This photo shows a woman named Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian army shelled her house in Idlib, northern Syria, March 10, 2012. Aida's husband and two children were killed in the attack.



A boy named Ahmed mourns his father, Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian army sniper, during his funeral in Idlib, northern Syria, March 8, 2012.


2. Manu Brabo


A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son, killed by the Syrian Army, near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. Regime forces unleashed shelling on rebel-held areas and fired machine guns from aircraft, according to an Associated Press journalist in the city, following three suicide car bombs earlier in the day, in a government-controlled area of Aleppo.



A man points a flashlight towards the body of a Syrian man killed by Syrian army shelling at a graveyard in Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 13, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.



This photograph of a wounded woman leaving Dar El Shifa hospital was also taken in Aleppo by Spanish born Manu Brabo.


3. Narciso Contreras


Night falls on a Syrian rebel-controlled area of Aleppo, Nov. 29, 2012, as destroyed buildings, including Dar Al-Shifa hospital, are seen on Sa'ar street after airstrikes targeted the area a week before.



In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 photo, a Syrian man wheels a woman severely injured from an artillery shell that landed near a bakery, to a hospital for treatment in Aleppo, Syria. Several were killed and a dozen were injured after the artillery shell that landed near a bakery in Aleppo.



A pile of shoes covered by blood from wounded or dead residents lies at the entrance of the emergency ward at a hospital in the Tarik Al-Bab neighborhood in Aleppo, on November 1, 2012.



In October 2012, Contreras was in Aleppo and took this photograph of an apartment destroyed by tank shelling in the Karm al-Jabel neighbourhood after several days of intense clashes between rebel fighters and the Syrian army.


4. Khalil Hamra


Khalil Hamra is a Palestinian-Egyptian photographer who was born in Kuwait in 1979 and who joined AP in 2002. In 2012 he spent time with Free Syrian Army fighters in a house on the outskirts of Aleppo.



Syrians who fled from the violence in their village walk between the tents at a camp for the displaced, in the Syrian village of Atmeh, near the Turkish border with Syria, on November 4, 2012.


Sources:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22170300
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/15/the-2013-pulitzer-prize-winners-associated-press-coverage-of-syria/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1
http://ironchefsworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=4382.0


P.s. Winning Pulitzer is a really great job. 
Shooting and killing people - is not so honorable thing. 
Helping people in spite of photographing them - more nobel and conscious act.
But everyone choose his own way. Even if he does not have any choice..

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