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Joseph Eid
AFP photo-coordinator and photographer for Lebanon-Syria and Jordan
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The music over the ruins of Aleppo

Wednesday 15 March 2017

"There are some things that bombs and fighting just can’t kill," writes Joseph Eid, a Beirut-based photographer.

"Like Mohammed Anis and his determination to live, and to begin anew in the ruins that are today his hometown of Aleppo. Even if his home is quite literally a pile of debris. Even if much of what he had treasured -- from his beloved collection of vintage American cars to his trusty pipe -- is today destroyed, mangled, broken. Even if the only thing around him that still works is an old gramophone that he cranks by hand."

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Drowning in garbage

Wednesday 28 September 2016

"'Good morning! I'm an AFP photographer. Would it be alright to use your roof to take pictures of the garbage mountain in front of your building?'

"'Welcome, welcome my dear, come in. Would you like some coffee? I can give you a full interview if you want. Will your pictures show how bad the smell is?'"

"Since Lebanon's trash crisis began last July, I have asked this question dozens -- perhaps hundreds -- of times," writes Joseph Eid, a photographer based in Lebanon. "I am greeted with the same enthusiasm each time, with residents eagerly ushering me onto their rooftops or near their windows to snap pictures of the piles of rubbish lining Lebanon's roads."

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