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Behind the curtain

Carl De Souza Thursday 1 November 2018

"In the end, it turned out to be a story about recovery, revival and passion for an art as much as the behind the scenes of a ballet production," writes Carl de Souza, a photographer based in Rio de Janeiro.

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Palestinian Saber al-Ashkar, 29, hurls rocks during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza strip, east of Gaza City, on May 11, 2018, as Palestinians demonstrate for the right to return to their historic homeland in what is now Israel. AFP / Mahmud Hams

The man in the wheelchair

Mahmud Hams Thursday 18 October 2018

Gaza-based Mahmud Hams received top honors in the photo category at the 25th Bayeux-Calvados War Correspondents Prize for his image of a wheelchair-bound demonstrator during the “Great March of Return” protests earlier this year.

A 38-year-old resident of the Gaza Strip, Hams has covered numerous conflicts, from demonstrations to incursions by the Israeli army. Here he describes the particulars of these protests.

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Killing me softly

Jewel Samad Wednesday 17 October 2018

"Every time I cover a disaster like this, a little piece of me is lost," writes veteran photographer Jewel Samad after covering the aftermath of an earthquake and a tsunami in Indonesia that killed more than 2,000 people and left thousands more missing.

"The soft part of you, the part that feels, that cares, the human part I guess. It kills that part of you a bit. I can feel that it’s not as strong as it was before, when I first started being a photojournalist."

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Of dingy bars and rides with strangers

Bhuvan Bagga Tuesday 9 October 2018

"The bar was cheap, dingy and smelly, but we were thrilled beyond words to find it," writes New Delhi-based journalist Bhuvan Bagga.

"After a day of reporting on one of the worst flood-hit regions in India’s Kerala state, we desperately needed a place with an electricity plug to recharge our equipment, a place to sit and a half-decent Internet connection so that we could send the reporting that we had gathered to our desks and on to the outside world."

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