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Zakaria Abdelkafi
Photographer based in Paris, formerly Syria.
  • AFP / Sameer Al-Doumy
  • AFP / Sameer Al-Doumy
  • Photo courtesy of Sameer Al-Doumy
  • AFP / Zakaria Abdelkafi
  • AFP / Zakaria Abdelkafi
  • AFP / Abdulmonam Eassa
  • AFP / Zakaria Abdelkafi
  • Photo courtesy of Abdulmonam Eassa

Yellow rage through Syrian eyes

Monday 10 December 2018

Of the thousands of people witnessing the “yellow vest” protests in Paris over the past few weeks, three young men have had a decidedly different perspective.

Cameras in hand, they have had great fun at the demonstrations, exchanging knowing looks, smiles and jokes whenever they crossed paths. Every once in a while, a painful memory or a philosophical reflection would pierce through the merriment. Then the good humor would return.

They are Syrians who have seen friends and loved ones die and their hometowns reduced to rubble. Having escaped war, Abdulmonam Eassa, Sameer Al-Doumy and Zakaria Abdelkafi are now covering violence in a European capital. With a smile.

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AFP / Zakaria Abdelkafi

The burning man

Wednesday 3 May 2017

"I was really affected by this photo and by this policeman," writes Zakaria Abdelkafi, a Syrian photographer who lives and works now in Paris.

"Here was a human being on fire in front of me. In Paris. And he didn’t do anything. I am from Syria, where police aren’t there to protect you, where police shoot people at demonstrations with real bullets. And these guys, all they did was throw some tear gas. And they were being attacked."

Zakaria's photo, of a French policeman in flames during a May Day demonstration in Paris, went viral on social media, with tens of thousands of retweets. 

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