July 16, 2025
News
The extremes of uprising, from the initial euphoria to muddy truths blurred by violence, are now the focus of a group project aimed at bringing work by a few Western photographers back to the country where the images were taken. Titled Almost Dawn in Libya (ADIL) and conceived by the photographer André Liohn, the project features work by Bryan Denton, Lynsey Addario, Eric Bouvet, Christopher Morris, Jehad Nga and Finbarr O’Reilly.
Syria has barred foreign journalists from entering the country, but some have managed to sneak into the country illegally and to escape unharmed with stories to share with the world.
Ecuador’s leftist president, Rafael Correa, pardoned three newspaper publishers and a former columnist who had been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay $40 million damages in a libel case that angered media freedom advocates.
Tyler Hicks, a photographer for The New York Times, recounted his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid, a Times correspondent who died during the assignment.
The Bab Amr district of Homs had already been descending into hell when the Syrian army apparently homed in on satellite phones being used by foreign journalists there and sent mortars their way, killing the American reporter Marie Colvin and the French photographer Rémi Ochlik on February 22.
Wounded French reporter Edith Bouvier has arrived in Lebanon from the besieged Syrian city of Homs, her family told FRANCE 24 Thursday. She was accompanied by French photographer William Daniels, who was also trapped in Homs for over a week.
Marie Colvin, an American reporter working for The Sunday Times of London, and Rémi Ochlik, a French photographer were killed early Wednesday as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad pursued a deadly bombardment of the central city of Homs, according to activists and officials.
Anthony Shadid’s final story for The New York Times has been published with a Tunis dateline.
OPC member Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict, died, apparently of an asthma attack.
There continues to be a massive civil war in Syria, but thanks in part to a government crackdown on foreign journalists, coverage on cable news tends to be from afar.
