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Los Angeles Times' roving foreign correspondent & photojournalist. Educated as an aerospace engineer. Dreamt of becoming an astronaut. Please DM life advice.
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2017 was an eventful year. But one memory stood out: when Darl Synder, a reader, sent me an American Flag in the mail. I was on assignment overseas when I got an email from my equipment manager asking me if I bought a television and had it sent to the office. ⬇️
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Day 7 of Russian invasion: Reporting in a Kyiv subway station when out of nowhere 9-year-old Uliana tapped me on my arm. She gifted me a heart-shaped embroidery she had been working on while seeking shelter underground with her family from air raids. 📸 courtesy of mom.
#ukraine
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This is how I want to remember Pierre Zakrzewski.
Big smiles. Fantastic human being. Kind, generous & radiates an upbeat can-do energy. From Kabul to Kyiv, he never stopped wanting to help.
He was found dead alongside Ukrainian journalist, Oleksandra Kuvshynova. RIP
Miss you.
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Just felt the shockwave of very large explosion in Kabul. The whole house shook.
#Afghanistan
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A very empty chicken street in Kabul, Afghanistan. A few store owners tell me they are afraid to reopen unless they get an approval from the Taliban.
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5 friends from Camarillo banded together and went to Ventura to do what they can: help try stop homes from catching on fire with garden hoses with other strangers.
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Jet fighters circle the skies of
#Kabul
as the U.S. withdrawal concludes, and family members attending a mass funeral for the 10 they say were killed in a U.S. drone strike – look up and weep as the roar of the jet engines never ends.
#afghanistan
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The protesters are getting louder and louder, calling for I.C.E. to be shut down.
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Today, many attended a solemn & emotional mass funeral held for the 10 civilians said to have been killed in a U.S. drone airstrike in Kabul. It was a heartbreaking event for all. 7 children are amongst the dead.
#Afghanistan
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@LATimesFreshInk
@latimes
As I was departing, we stood outside his gate – adorned with a new flag and we decided that we needed a picture together. After I left, another brushfire broke out near Lake Isabella and I was hurling my way towards it.
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Taliban fighters storm into the Kabul International Airport, wielding American supplied weapons, equipment & uniforms – after the U.S. Military have completed their withdrawal. Fighters celebrated with gunfire & chants through the night.
#Afghanistan
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“No one asks about us,” the brother of the man who died in the blast said. “All the newspapers and all the magazines spoke about the American troops that were killed. It’s frustrating, because Afghan murder, Afghan dead, Afghan blood — it’s not important.”
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Protesters kneel with their hands up, in front of the police formation on Palais and Euclid in Anaheim.
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Taliban fighters patrol all over Kabul, Afghanistan today.
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Slightly personal news: I'm officially moving out of California to the embark on a new journey in Asia. The
@latimes
is giving me an opportunity of a lifetime to pursue my dreams of becoming foreign correspondent. I'm super nervous but excited.
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It's the night before thanksgiving. It's cold and wet outside.
#CampFire
evacuees are still bracing the elements and looking for shelter. Here are some images I'd like to share some images from my time exploring the Chico Walmart parking lot, a temporary refuge for some.
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Mid-flight refuel for the search and rescue helicopters as they work into the night scanning areas surrounded by floodwater caused by Harvey
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Proud to share this: I was named the 2022 recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism and
@LAPressClub
title of Photojournalist Of The Year. I would like to first thank the Pearl family for this incredible honor.
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#Dispatches
: A moonlit candlelight vigil to condemn the killing of children and civilians, is held over the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli military strike during the 11-day escalation between
#Israel
and
#Gaza
military factions, now ended with a Egyptian-brokered
#ceasefire
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Hello world...My gosh, a Pulitzer Prize. Still in shock. Grateful for:
@nabihbulos
,
@calvinhom
,
@KatePKuo
,
@JeffreyLAT
& more. Cried with
@pohsi
& loved ones. History swept Afghanistan & its people paid the greatest price. This is for their courage. 🙏🏼
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Love in Paradise: Ryan married Kimberly and went on a honeymoon in 2004. They had a coin made to commemorate their love on that trip. The
#CampFire
destroyed their home. They returned to desperately recover it. Miraculously, they did. The coin reads: "KIM & RYAN SOULMATES 4EVER"
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Wazir Akbar Khan hill, met a soldier who didn't want to use his name. He looks at city below & says “this is like a quick death,” referring to the fall of Kabul. He said it was going to hard moment for him when he removes his uniform permanently after 10 years of service for good
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While sitting in an abandoned building, I read the transcript of Darl’s letter and teared up. It reminded me of the special privilege we have as photojournalists.
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Golden hour: A military transport plane launches out of Kabul, while Afghans who cannot get into the airport to evacuate, watch and wonder.
#Afghanistan
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Everyone is bearing the weight of last night's traumatic attack. You can see it on their faces
#DallasPoliceShooting
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A tender moment between Sen Kamala Harris and her god son, Alexander. She is about to take the stage at a rally in Oakland, Calif. to kick start her presidential bid.
#KamalaHarris2020
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A moment to savor. Most dream of achieving it. I only aspire to stay employed & do meaningful work. But tonight I feel very privileged to have our work from Afghanistan honored with the
#pulitzerprize
. My family &
@latimes
editors came together to love & support. 📸:
@adreeslatif
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What a horrific night. Bombings at the Abbey Gate at Kabul Airport ripped through Afghans & foreign nationals waiting to be processed for evacuation as the United States complete its withdrawal.
#Afghanistan
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But I had never met Darl Synder. So on the anniversary of the destructive and deadly Erskine fire I decided to return to Lake Isabella to pay him a visit.
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I met Emal Ahmadi, who was in tears the morning after the U.S. drone strike – supposedly targeting ISISK suicide bombers – but instead killed his members of family, including 7 children. Emal is asking America to not kill civilians in the future.
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The intense and surreal fire activity up on along the 33, north of Ojai. Winds gusting, roads covered with rocks, embers flying around.
#thomasfire
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And when I returned to Los Angeles, I found the package waiting for me and decided to put it on display outside our photo department for visitors and the rest of the newsroom to share.
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I remember blushing when he proudly showed me where he hung the picture that I took, framed above his television in the living room.
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I'm saddened to share this: Darl Synder, the gentleman whose life intersected with mine when he sent me this letter with a flag, passed away in his sleep over the weekend. His family informed me about it. My heart goes out to them.
2017 was an eventful year. But one memory stood out: when Darl Synder, a reader, sent me an American Flag in the mail. I was on assignment overseas when I got an email from my equipment manager asking me if I bought a television and had it sent to the office. ⬇️
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Just passed a Taliban checkpoint and they insisted on our car. Taliban militant exclaimed: “What is this?” Upon seeing my camera they behaved like it was some kind of contraband. We flashed our press cards. “Don’t help the media,” the Taliban fighter told my driver.
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The cacophony of Kabul after tonight's horrific bombings: The roar of jet engines. Whirling rotor blades. Sporadic gun fire at different volumes. Hum of the generator. The buzz of the mosquitoes. And the silence of the darkness.
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I have exited
#Ukraine
. Stepped away for health reasons. Grateful for the folks who shared their worlds with us. Feel guilty for abrupt departure. I do hope that there will be no more war to return to. Lastly, please support the journos that are still covering
#UkraineRussiaWar
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My last dispatch from the
#ThomasFire
. Watching the wildfire burn into the Los Padres National Forest. Good night. Good luck.
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Pick up a copy of todays'
@latimes
🙏🏼
Afghanistan’s world-renowned, all-female orchestra is in exile after the Taliban’s takeover. The girls wanted to be seen with their instruments. They spoke about their hopes for school,
#Zohra
& music in
#Afghanistan
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Ventura residents evacuate homes as a brush fire growing in size moves quickly with the wind.
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Day 16 of Russian Invasion: I dread making pictures of destruction during war. By itself, in a photograph, it lacks humanity. Even accompanying it, it overshadows any semblance of life. We document because we must convey. But must it arrive to the point in which humanity is lost?
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Spent Saturday evening witnessing Guatemalan asylum seeker Hermelindo Che Coc reuniting with his six-year-old son Jefferson Che Pop after they were separated for nearly two months under President Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy. 📸 ⬇️
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Incredibly painful to watch people pull out their loved ones, clutch them, put them in body bags & live to bury them
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Kharkiv: Hundreds huddle on the train platform, dark subway cars and on the stairwells as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. The station also serves as bomb shelter. Some have been here since 4am, most are restless. For safety the name of the station is not mentioned.
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@nabihbulos
and myself were just accosted by Taliban fighters at Karte 4 while covering the women’s protest. They said Zabihullah Mujahid, the Talib spox, said that covering these protests were illegal. One of them even said it was forbidden in Islam to take picture of women.
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2021 will always stay with me. I entered Kabul before the fall of
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The target of a U.S. drone strike in
#Kabul
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#Afghanistan
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Saw too much to comprehend in the al-Jadida neighborhood of Mosul today.
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A Ukrainian soldier takes a drag from his cigarette as his squad brace themselves against incoming artillery fire from Russian forces while defending the town of Irpin and the civilians fleeing it.
#Ukraine
#UkraineRussianWar
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Day 10. An airstrike hit Markhalivka. The impact carved out a crater & wrecked the neighborhood. Six killed – including a 12-year-old girl. Neighbors grimace as they pick up blood-stained debris. A homeowner drops to his knee to search.
#UkraineRussianWar
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An interesting moment from a night before: A Taliban fighter tries to take a smartphone picture of a remaining C-17 flight taking off as a farewell memento, in the darkness of the night....
#Afghanistan
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What a incredible tale of courage, of humility, & of anguish in Mariupol by these AP journalists. Thank you for your commitment and perseverance Mstyslav and Evgeniy. Relieved to know you both are safe. You lit a candle in the abyss and you showed the way.
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And when we finally met, we talked, talked and talked – about what happened during and after the fire, about the kindness of strangers and how he managed to send the flag by mail. He was thankful for all the information and reports we published during the Erskine Fire.
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This scene will haunt me for a while: Turkya Azudin watches workers pull out corpses from her home and count relatives she had lost: 18
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Firefighters are trying to control the advance on the brush fire west of Grant Park.
#ThomasFire
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@nabihbulos
and I saw a dog stuck inside a store at gas station that we walked past in Irpin today. It refused to come out. There was broken glass all over. It was afraid. We did everything we could to console and encourage him. He refused and stayed inside. Godspeed.
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Rain or shine, these educators mean business. Teachers walk out of work today. At Roosevelt High school.
#UTLAStrike
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Friends come together to support the Jacobson sisters (center), after the
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destroyed their family home.
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The sea of humanity continues to flow towards the airport. Afghans with paperwork have to traverse flooded streets, Taliban checkpoints, then a British checkpoint, before even getting processed for evacuation near Abbey Gate.
#Afghanistan
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A monumental day for Sen. Kamala Harris as she waits backstage in a holding area before making her appearance at a rally to kick off her presidential campaign in her hometown, Oakland, Calif.
#KamalaHarris2020
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Simple, stark & hasty funeral for Boris Romantschenko. It was too windy to light candles, & stiff breeze quickly dried tears. Everyone wept. A piece of history was gone. A boy who had survived the worst of human nature died an old man in a fresh atrocity.
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Standing on top of a bridge that was destroyed, an elderly couple stay close together (he's embracing her) as they gaze at the horizon, and below, as people cross a river to make their way out of their besieged city of Irpin,
#Ukraine
. They eventually turned around and returned.
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Several dozens of protesters march through the Dashti-E-Barchi neighborhood in
#Kabul
, demanding women representation & progressing women’s rights, since the promises made by the newly formed Taliban Government – announced yesterday – is seemingly more elusive.
#Afghanistan
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Rest in peace
@reuterspictures
' Yannis Behrakis. Thank you for your remarkable contribution to
#photojournalism
. Condolences to the staff and his family.
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