Numb with grief, a photographer works to bear witness
Note: this article contains graphic images I’m used to being the person behind the camera. Then on October 11th I was taking a photo of a house that had been bombed. It was near the street where my parents lived with my two brothers and sister. I heard an explosion and realised my family house had been hit. I ran towards it and saw it had been reduced to rubble. The whole world died suddenly. There were no feelings, there were no colours, there was nothing.
It’s dangerous to be out on the streets so I give my team a maximum of seven minutes to take their photos before we go back to the hospital. I am always worried about them. The most important thing now is to report what is happening. My team and I don’t really eat, or sleep more than a couple of hours a night. We’re fuelling ourselves with dates, because they have a lot of sugar. I feel numb. I am a working machine.
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