To be a photographer - a dangerous job

Photojournalists have to act, to make decisions and carry photographic equipment under the same conditions as the participants of the events (fire, war, riots) are often exposed to the same risks with them.

(15 photos)

1 Photographers crouch to hide from the rocks, which the protesters hurled into police on Sheikh Rihan near Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 25, 2013.

2 Turkish police officer of the special response pushes the photographer during a protest in Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 11, 2013.

3 Photographers carry cameras during a protest of the opposition to Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi. A protester throws a box of tear gas, which was previously dumped police during clashes on Mohamed Mahmoud street leading to the Interior Ministry near Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 26, 2013.

4 Ayman al-Shahili operator Reuters was wounded in the leg by a sniper during the filming of the line of fire in Aleppo in northern Syria. The gunman supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, 31 December 2012.

5 Palestinian photographer -frilanser Moama Krekov wheelchair lifts protesters calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in Gaza City on October 1, 2012. 25-year-old Krekov lost both legs during an Israeli air strike in 2008, working with the camera to the east of Gaza. Father of two children decided to continue his career as a photographer, despite his disability.

6 Journalists Breen Karch (center) from Canada and Toshifumi Fujimoto (right) from Japan run for cover on the street in the Salaheddin in Aleppo, December 29, 2012.

7 Reaction Reuters photographer Ahmed Jadallah protesters and police on the use of stun grenades during an anti-government rally demanding the release of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja in Manama, 18 April 2012.

8 Cop beats AFP photojournalist Patricia Melo during the Portuguese general strike in Lisbon on March 22, 2012.

9 In this photo taken in Cairo, Egypt on November 23 2011frantsuzsky photographer Remi Oshlik. Remy Oshlik and American correspondent Marie Colvin died February 22, 2012 in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. According to opposition activists and witnesses, journalists were killed by a rocket fired by government forces and trapped in the house, which stayed. Colvin and Oshlik were honored veterans of the wars in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere.

10 Police special response unit uses his baton against news photographer Panagiotis Tsamarosas working on the instructions of AFP during a demonstration on Constitution Square in Athens, October 5, 2011. Tsamaros received minor head injuries and bruises.

11 Photographer throws a tear gas projectile during a rally in the city of Santiago, June 23, 2011.

Cop beats 12 Greek photojournalist Tatiana Bolar during a demonstration in Athens' Syntagma Square (Constitution Square), 5 October 2011. Police officers attacked several members of the press, removing the protest, wounding at least two members of the media.

13 members of the press lies on the ground after the mob attack, the soldiers surround him in Cairo February 3, 2011.

14 journalists, including New York Times photographers Tyler Hicks (sprava- in glasses) and Lynsey Addaru (far left), a photographer from Getty Images, John Moore (second from left), a freelance photographer Holly Pickett (third from left) and freelancer Philip Poupin (fourth from left) run for cover during a bombing raid in the Libyan government planes at a checkpoint near the oil refinery of Ras Lanuf, 11 March 2011.

15 Photographer takes the position of an empty water tank during an operation at Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, 27 November 2010.

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