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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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  • AFP / Jewel Samad
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  • AFP / Jewel Samad

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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  • AFP / Luis Robayo

Fleeing home in time of peace

Luis Robayo Wednesday 26 September 2018

"Covering the Venezuelan refugee crisis has been extremely personal for me," writes Luis Robayo, a photographer based in Colombia.

"I am from Cucuta, a Colombian city right on the border, so my life has always been a back and forth between the two countries. I would go to Venezuela to visit friends, or to take a walk, to eat good food, to enjoy its Caribbean shoreline. So this story has really felt like my own."

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