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![A man walks past destroyed buildings in the Bab al-Hadid neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on May 2, 2016. Residents had ventured out onto the streets, taking advantage of a lull in violence in the northern Syrian city as the United States pushed to salvage a ceasefire.]()
A man walks in a devastated neighbourhood in Eastern Aleppo: photo by Karam al-Masri/AFP, 28 September 2016
![A man walks past destroyed buildings in the Bab al-Hadid neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on May 2, 2016. Residents had ventured out onto the streets, taking advantage of a lull in violence in the northern Syrian city as the United States pushed to salvage a ceasefire.]()
A man walks in a devastated neighbourhood in Eastern Aleppo: photo by Karam al-Masri/AFP, 28 September 2016
Descendant
Loved France
and changed his name
Was Marcel
And didn't know how to
I went along with the concierge
His remains
It may be I alone
still know
Rescue workers and residents try to pull a man out from under the rubble of a building following an airstrike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Salhin in Aleppo: photo by Thaer Mohammed/AFP, 11 March 2016
![A boy runs after airstrikes conducted by Syrian government forces hit a neighborhood in rebel-held Aleppo on April 24, 2016.]()
A boy runs after airstrikes conducted by Syrian government forces hit a neighborhood in rebel-held Aleppo: photo by Beha el Halebi/Anadolu Agency, 24 April 2016
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A 12-foot fence to keep migrants from the highway: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016 ![]()
A 12-foot fence to keep migrants from the highway: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016 ![]()
Men standing on a hill to get better phone reception: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016 ![]()
Men standing on a hill to get better phone reception: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016 ![]()
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The Jungle, as the shades of evening come down: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016
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The Jungle, as the shades of evening come down: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016
![Sotheby's employees hang a painting by David Hockney called 'Woldgate Woods, 24,25 and 26 October, 2006' at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. The painting estimated at 9 million pounds (12 million US dollars) will be auctioned in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on Nov. 17.]()
Sotheby's employees hang a painting by David Hockney called ‘Woldgate Woods, 24,25 and 26 October, 2006′ at Sotheby’s auction rooms in London. The painting is estimated to sell for 9 million pounds and will be auctioned in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on November 17.: photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP, 30 September 2016
![Sotheby's employees hang a painting by David Hockney called 'Woldgate Woods, 24,25 and 26 October, 2006' at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. The painting estimated at 9 million pounds (12 million US dollars) will be auctioned in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on Nov. 17.]()
Sotheby's employees hang a painting by David Hockney called ‘Woldgate Woods, 24,25 and 26 October, 2006′ at Sotheby’s auction rooms in London. The painting is estimated to sell for 9 million pounds and will be auctioned in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on November 17.: photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP, 30 September 2016

A man walks in a devastated neighbourhood in Eastern Aleppo: photo by Karam al-Masri/AFP, 28 September 2016

A man walks in a devastated neighbourhood in Eastern Aleppo: photo by Karam al-Masri/AFP, 28 September 2016
Giuseppe Ungaretti: In Memoria
.......Locvizza il 30 settembre 1916
Si chiamava
Moammed Sceab
Discendente
di emiri nomadi
suicida
perchè non aveva più
Patria
Amò la Francia
e mutò nome
Fu Marcel
ma non era Francese
e non sapeva più
vivere
nella tenda dei suoi
dove si ascolta la cantilena
del Corano
gustando un caffè
E non sapeva
sciogliere
il canto
del suo abbandono
L'ho accompagnato
insiema alla padrona dell'albergo
dove abitavamo
a Parigi
dal numero 5 della rue des Carmes
appasito vicolo in discesa
Riposa
nel camposanto d'Ivry
sobborgo che pare
sempre in una giornata
di una
decomposta fiera
E forse io solo
so ancora
che visse
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Si chiamava
Moammed Sceab
Discendente
di emiri nomadi
suicida
perchè non aveva più
Patria
Amò la Francia
e mutò nome
Fu Marcel
ma non era Francese
e non sapeva più
vivere
nella tenda dei suoi
dove si ascolta la cantilena
del Corano
gustando un caffè
E non sapeva
sciogliere
il canto
del suo abbandono
L'ho accompagnato
insiema alla padrona dell'albergo
dove abitavamo
a Parigi
dal numero 5 della rue des Carmes
appasito vicolo in discesa
Riposa
nel camposanto d'Ivry
sobborgo che pare
sempre in una giornata
di una
decomposta fiera
E forse io solo
so ancora
che visse

Cinquièmrue 6 (3 rue Basse des Carmes, Paris 5 e.): photo by André Fantelin, 24 August 2012
.....Locvizza 30 September 1916
His name was
His name was
Mohamed Sceab
Descendant
of emirs of nomadic tribes
took his own life
because he had lost
his Homeland
Loved France
and changed his name
Was Marcel
but wasn't French
had forgot how
to simply live
sipping a coffee
sipping a coffee
in the tent of his people
where the little singsong
of the Koran is chanted
And didn't know how to
give
his separateness
a voice
a voice
I went along with the concierge
from the hotel where we lived
in Paris
following his body
down the dingy alleyway
from number 5 rue des Carmes
His remains
rest
in the cemetery at Ivry
dolorous suburb
that always brings to mind
the day
a fairground comes down
It may be I alone
still know
he was once alive
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970): In Memoria, 30 September 1916, from ll porto sepolto, 1916; English by TC

Rescue workers and residents try to pull a man out from under the rubble of a building following an airstrike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Salhin in Aleppo: photo by Thaer Mohammed/AFP, 11 March 2016
When I saw this old man and his face covered in blood, mixed with the dust of his house, looking at me, I imagined the man was telling me “make your lens the witness to this crime that has been committed against us!” His facial expressions affected me very much and every time I would take a picture of him, I would imagine myself in his place, being a survivor, not knowing what the fate of the rest of my family members is, as he was the only one whose head was seen amid the rubble and dust. Other times I’ve imagined him to be one of my family members and I’m documenting the damned crime committed against him. Whenever he’d look at me, I could see in his eyes the pain that women, children and men of this nation have suffered, and images of victims of violence in Syria would flash before my eyes.
-- Thaer Mohammed via Time Lightbox, 29 September 2016

A boy runs after airstrikes conducted by Syrian government forces hit a neighborhood in rebel-held Aleppo: photo by Beha el Halebi/Anadolu Agency, 24 April 2016
One day I heard that the Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo was under a heavy attack. I got on my motorbike and rode down to Sukkari immediately. I saw casualties when I got there. There was panic and women and children running in fear. Among the dust cloud I saw a child was running away from the area and I took a picture of him.
People were screaming for help and I was scared, too. The regime was attacking the same areas again so I finished my work early and left the shelled area. I sent the images to the agency. I have experienced this kind of massacre before, so I can still hear the voices of people screaming inside my head. Being a journalist in the world’s most dangerous city is a very difficult job to do. We risk our lives to make the world hear the systematic killing by Assad’s regime against civilians. It is like screaming for help in a deep well where no one can hear you.
Can anybody hear us?
-- Beha el Halabi via Time Lightbox, 29 September 2016
![A man covered with dust sits on a street following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held neighborhood of Sukkari in Aleppo on May 30, 2016.]()
A man covered with dust sits on a street following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held neighborhood of Sukkari in Aleppo: photo by Baraa Al-Halabi/AFP, 30 May 2016
-- Baraa Al-Halabi via Time Lightbox, 29 September 2016
![A boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in a reported airstrike in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo on April 27, 2016.]()
A boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in an airstrike in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo: photo by Karam al-Masri/AFP, 27 April 2016
I took this picture in April after Syrian government forces shelled the Al-Quds hospital in the Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo. This kid lost a number of his family members on that day -- his mother and younger brother -- and his father had died a couple months before.
The boy was crying next to the body of his brother, after he was unable to identify his mother’s disfigured body. His intense crying reminded me of myself when I lost family members about three years ago in government airstrikes.
The boy later recognized his mother through the golden jewelry she was wearing. He then completely collapsed and sat beside her body on the ground, crying and saying “I have no one left except God to take care of me! Who will feed me now? Where will I go? How will I live?”
I can’t forget these words. This is one of the most heart-wrecking scenes for me. I couldn’t continue taking pictures as he was crying next to his mother’s body. Tears started filling my eyes as I remembered myself, how I was standing next to the body of my own mother. The only difference between us being that he is still a young child and cannot rely on himself, while I was 22.
![Children play with water from a burst water pipe at a site hit yesterday by an air strike in Aleppo's rebel-controlled al-Mashad neighbourhood, Syria, September 30, 2016]()
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Airstrikes hit two bakeries in #Aleppo countryside early this morning, 77k people without bread. #HolocaustAleppo: image via Vero Ger @GerV29, 29 September 2016
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He's alive he's trying to be alive or at least to survive, #Aleppo today no words can explain what he's feeling: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAllkhtiib, 30 September 2016
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He's alive he's trying to be alive or at least to survive, #Aleppo today no words can explain what he's feeling: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAllkhtiib, 30 September 2016
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Aerial bombardment phosphorous bombs on opposition held neighborhood #Aleppo #HolocaustAleppo photo Mahmoud Rslan: image via HalabToday @HalabTodayTV, 30 September 2016
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killing those who rescue US every hour, alike killing dozens of people, and these died while trying to save a soul, rest in peace! @Aleppo: image via Zouhir AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, 30 September 2016
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SYRIA - Wounded Syrian children await to receive treatment at a hospital following a reported air strike on Idlib. By @omarnajdat #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 30 September 2016
#Douma today: image via Fadi Hussein @fadihussein8, 30 September 2016
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SYRIA - A wounded man is reflected in a mirror as he awaits treatment at a makeshift hospital in Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 30 September 2016
Palestinian protesters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with Israeli security forces along the border fence with Israel on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP, 30 September 2016
![Palestinian protesters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with Israeli security forces along the border fence with Israel on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, on September 30, 2016]()
Palestinian protesters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with Israeli security forces along the border fence with Israel on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP, 30 September 2016
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A man covered with dust sits on a street following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held neighborhood of Sukkari in Aleppo: photo by Baraa Al-Halabi/AFP, 30 May 2016
One day the market where Abu Adel works was hit by a barrel bomb. He is married with four daughters and lives in the rebel-held neighborhood of Sukkari in Aleppo, where he works as a fruit vendor to earn a living and feed his children. He lost his cart full of cherries.
He sat next to it and was shocked to see what had happened and that he had escaped death. When I see the photo, I feel sad that such an old man doesn’t have children to help him earn a living. I feel sad how people are dying and that there is no human value left, as they become merely documented numbers.
I loved the photo because I found him again on a different occasion, selling vegetables in the neighborhood with his fixed cart. After all that he went through, life went on.

A boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in an airstrike in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo: photo by Karam al-Masri/AFP, 27 April 2016
The boy was crying next to the body of his brother, after he was unable to identify his mother’s disfigured body. His intense crying reminded me of myself when I lost family members about three years ago in government airstrikes.
The boy later recognized his mother through the golden jewelry she was wearing. He then completely collapsed and sat beside her body on the ground, crying and saying “I have no one left except God to take care of me! Who will feed me now? Where will I go? How will I live?”
I can’t forget these words. This is one of the most heart-wrecking scenes for me. I couldn’t continue taking pictures as he was crying next to his mother’s body. Tears started filling my eyes as I remembered myself, how I was standing next to the body of my own mother. The only difference between us being that he is still a young child and cannot rely on himself, while I was 22.
-- KaramAl-Masri via Time Lightbox, 29 September 2016

The rubble of war in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo on Monday: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 26 September 2016

The rubble of war in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo on Monday: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 26 September 2016

Children play with water from a burst water pipe at a site hit yesterday by an air strike in Aleppo’s rebel-controlled al-Mashad neighbourhood, Syria.: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 30 September 2016

Airstrikes hit two bakeries in #Aleppo countryside early this morning, 77k people without bread. #HolocaustAleppo: image via Vero Ger @GerV29, 29 September 2016

He's alive he's trying to be alive or at least to survive, #Aleppo today no words can explain what he's feeling: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAllkhtiib, 30 September 2016

He's alive he's trying to be alive or at least to survive, #Aleppo today no words can explain what he's feeling: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAllkhtiib, 30 September 2016

Aerial bombardment phosphorous bombs on opposition held neighborhood #Aleppo #HolocaustAleppo photo Mahmoud Rslan: image via HalabToday @HalabTodayTV, 30 September 2016

killing those who rescue US every hour, alike killing dozens of people, and these died while trying to save a soul, rest in peace! @Aleppo: image via Zouhir AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, 30 September 2016

SYRIA - Wounded Syrian children await to receive treatment at a hospital following a reported air strike on Idlib. By @omarnajdat #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 30 September 2016

#Douma today: image via Fadi Hussein @fadihussein8, 30 September 2016

SYRIA - A wounded man is reflected in a mirror as he awaits treatment at a makeshift hospital in Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 30 September 2016
Palestinian protesters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with Israeli security forces along the border fence with Israel on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP, 30 September 2016

Palestinian protesters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with Israeli security forces along the border fence with Israel on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP, 30 September 2016

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian boy holds an old car door that he found near the beach. By @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 September 2016

President Obama attends the funeral of Shimon Peres: photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times, 30 September 2016

Makeshift shelters at a camp known as The Jungle in Calais: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016
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Makeshift shelters at a camp known as The Jungle in Calais: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016

Makeshift shelters at a camp known as The Jungle in Calais: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016





Overgrown railroad tracks in an industrial area just outside the camp: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016
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Overgrown railroad tracks in an industrial area just outside the camp: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016
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Men prepare meals in the evening: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016
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Men prepare meals in the evening: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016

Men prepare meals in the evening: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016

Men prepare meals in the evening: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016

The Jungle, as the shades of evening come down: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016

The Jungle, as the shades of evening come down: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 26 September 2016

Sotheby's employees hang a painting by David Hockney called ‘Woldgate Woods, 24,25 and 26 October, 2006′ at Sotheby’s auction rooms in London. The painting is estimated to sell for 9 million pounds and will be auctioned in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on November 17.: photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP, 30 September 2016

Sotheby's employees hang a painting by David Hockney called ‘Woldgate Woods, 24,25 and 26 October, 2006′ at Sotheby’s auction rooms in London. The painting is estimated to sell for 9 million pounds and will be auctioned in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on November 17.: photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP, 30 September 2016