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http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/a-lens-to-the-front/When he arrived, Ahmed was still covered in dust. He was just back from the military base in Daquq, a few miles away from the ISIS-controlled territories of Iraq. His boss, Stefano Carini, had insisted they meet before the Eid al-Adha holiday; he was impatient to see Ahmeds work.
They met in a café in Sulaymaniyah, a Kurdish city of 1.5 million people, on a late afternoon last week. Ahmed (not his real name) is a 25-year old music student and a photographer. He had just witnessed the heaviest fighting in his base since the beginning of the war, but he seemed very calm. Collected.
He handed his memory cards to Carini and sipped coffee as the two of them looked over his pictures. Carini was amazed. He was struck by one shot in particularthe closest one he had ever seen from the frontline. In the image, a few peshmergas are ducking for cover behind sand bags while being shot at by ISIS. A fighter has just launched a rocket grenade. You can still see the smoke left in its wake [image below].
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Photos you will not see anywhere else (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
Oct 2014
OP
Gripping shots of those caught in the middle of the conflict as well...
FailureToCommunicate
Oct 2014
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panader0
(25,816 posts)1. Great photos!
Thanks for posting.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)2. Thank you
These are definitely worth a look.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)3. Absolutely outstanding
Terrific photographs. I had never heard of Metrography but will definitely be following their work from now on. Thank you very much for posting this.
denbot
(9,899 posts)4. So, there are still photojournalists in the world.
Who knew?
K&R
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)5. Gripping shots of those caught in the middle of the conflict as well...
Thanks for posting.
calimary
(81,298 posts)6. These are stunning shots!
They really give you a close-up look at what the Talking Heads and Rachel Maddow call "Life During Wartime."
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)7. amazing photography
peoli
(3,111 posts)8. great website! Thanks so much.