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Sept. 14, 2012. A Syrian man carrying grocery bags tries to dodge sniper fire as he runs through an alley near a checkpoint manned by the Free Syria Army in Aleppo, Syria.
An Italian photojournalist’s “unflinching and authoritative” photos of the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria, has earned him Time magazine’s designation as 2012′s Best Photographer on the Wires.
The work of Marco Longari, a Jerusalem-based photographer for Agence-France Presse, stood out even among the thousands of incredible photos that moved on the wires this year, capturing life in every corner of the world.
Longari’s photos in the Middle East, including a wrenching image of a Palestinian mother clutching the lifeless body of her daughter following an Israeli airstrike and Syrian rebels helping a wounded soldier outside a hospital in Aleppo, was work that “mattered,” Time said.
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Nov. 16, 2012. The mother of a 10-month-old Palestinian girl killed the day before in an Israeli air strike is comforted by her husband and relatives as she mourns before her daughter’s funeral in Gaza City.
“There is, simply, no way to envision the upheaval across the region in the past year without his work. It is that central to how the world sees (and will remember) this deeply unsettling year,” the magazine said.
Longari, 47, is a graduate of Istituto Superiore di Fotografia in Rome. He has covered Kosovo and was previously based in East Africa, where he spent years documenting the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region.
For Longari, 2012 was a “another year of revolutions, protests, violent acts and sheer madness. [It seems] like humanity has lost its bearings, yet again.”
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Feb. 6, 2012. Egyptian demonstrators gather next to a concrete barricade during confrontations outside Cairo’s security headquarters. Clashes continued in the wake of deadly football violence in Port Said amid calls by activists for civil disobedience.
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Sept. 18, 2012. A Syrian man carries his wounded daughter outside a hospital in Aleppo, Syria.
Marco Longari/AFP/Getty
May 28, 2012. An Egyptian farmer works in a field in the fertile Delta region of Menufiya, in the city of Banha, Egypt. Support for ex-prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmad Shafiq is strong in the region, where former presidents Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak were born.
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