Tag - Israel
Shooting beyond the violence
Saturday 22 December 2012 - Behind the image
AFP PHOTO/Marco Longari
Shooting beyond the violence
AFP's Marco Longari was this week named as Time magazine’s wire photographer of 2012, in recognition of what the US publication described as his "indispensable" coverage from across the Middle East. He discusses some of his compelling work from the past year that saw him in Gaza, Egypt and Syria, among other places.
Dateline Gaza: family on the (front)line
Friday 30 November 2012 - Eye witness
"For AFP's team of Gaza-based journalists, a flare up of violence with Israel is nothing new -- with bombings, air strikes and death and destruction all part-and-parcel of living in this tiny strip of land," explains AFP's deputy bureau chief in Jerusalem. "But covering this latest round of violence was tough, with round-the-clock Israeli air strikes hammering residential and business districts that were once thought of relatively safe, exposing AFP staff and their families to a new level of risk." (AFP Photo)
Gaza: 'Should I be filming this?'
Friday 23 November 2012 - Eye witness
“Covering a conflict like the one that just ravaged the Gaza Strip for eight days confronts a journalist with the terrible spectacle of dozens of corpses, of both adults and children, that are often displayed by their families in a hellish atmosphere,” explains AFP video correspondent Guillaume Bonnet, in Gaza on special assignment. How does a journalist cope? (AFP PHOTO/Marco Longari)