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  • 17
    Feb
    2012
    9:24am, EST

    One year on, photographer Guy Martin looks back at the Arab Spring

    Ed Ou / The New York Times via Redux Pictures

    Photojournalists Guy Martin, left, and Dominic Nahr take cover behind a wall as anti- and pro-government protesters throw stones during a clash near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Feb. 3, 2011.

    By Ed Kiernan, NBC News
    LONDON — February 17 marks the anniversary of the Libyan uprising — a revolution that left photojournalist Guy Martin fighting for his life.

    The 27-year-old was in a group of photographers caught in a mortar attack in Misrata on April 20, 2011. Martin was seriously injured and two of his friends and colleagues, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, were killed. 

    • Slideshow: Chris Hondros retrospective
    • Slideshow: Tim Hetherington retrospective

    Martin's life was saved by doctors who then prepared him for a perilous evacuation by boat from the besieged city.

    Ten months on and still recovering from his injuries, he spoke to NBC News. Watch the video below:

    Guy Martin was badly injured while capturing the events of the Arab Spring. As Libya marks one year since the beginning of the country's uprising, Martin reflects on life on the frontline.

    Martin had spent several months covering the Arab Spring, documenting the historic events in Egypt and moving on to the brutal civil war in Libya. His pictures documenting the unrest in Cairo's Tahrir Square have just gone on display in London. 

    As well as the chaotic scenes of violence, Martin prides himself on capturing the quiet, contemplative moments that give some context to the historical moments he has witnessed.

    "Despite the physical violence, the risk that we put ourselves in, you have a duty, a responsibility to come out of those situations with pictures, with strong images that communicate what was happening on the ground," he says.

    Guy Martin / Panos Pictures

    Rebel fighters moved from house to house, back street by back street to fire on Gadhafi's forces. Here a rebel soldier takes cover in a stairwell as he prepares to fire on Gadhafi loyalists in the adjacent room, just a few meters away. Tripoli Street, Misrata, Libya, April 20, 2011.

    Guy Martin / Panos Pictures

    Rebel fighters run across an intersection that was frequently targeted by sniper fire. Misrata, April 18, 2011.

    Guy Martin / Panos Pictures

    Rebel fighters takes cover behind trees on the strategically important Tripoli Street in Misrata during a fierce battle for control of the road on the morning of April 20, 2011. Hours later Guy Martin was seriously injured.

    The Last Days of Mubarak, an exhibition by Guy Martin and Ivor Prickett, runs at London's Foto8 gallery until March 10. 

    • Audio: Guy Martin and Ivor Prickett discuss their work in Egypt and Libya
    • Slideshow: Chris Hondros' images from Libya 
    • Slideshow: Conflict in Libya
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    2 comments

    Guy Martin: Best of luck! You saw only the beginning of Arab Spring in Libya and Egypt! Likes of him have a long travel ahead with more Arab/Muslim Springs in Bahrain, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran (may be) and many Muslim nations. More barbaric, beastly and corrupt the rulers, more will be the  …

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  • 8
    Sep
    2011
    7:51pm, EDT

    Gaia Anderson / AP

    Prisoners lift their eyes to the sky as a plane flies overhead during prayers in a makeshift prison at a school in Misrata, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 8. The prison was set up in what used to be a school at the beginning of the Libyan uprising and now holds 350 men.

    Libyan rebels use school as makeshift prison

    By Rich Shulman

    I like the ambiguity of this image. Full coverage of the Libyan revolution.

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  • 6
    Sep
    2011
    6:47pm, EDT

    Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images

    Libyan rebel soldiers relax at a makeshift camp situated on an abandoned residential block, on the Northern road leading to Sirte in the village of Tawergha on September 6 near Misrata, Libya. Rebel leaders have been negotiating for days with tribal elders of the pro-Gadhafi desert town of Bani Walid, for a peaceful entry into the town.

    Libyan NTC forces say ready to take pro-Gadhafi town

    By Rich Shulman

    I don't know, but something about the body language of these rebels makes me think they have this thing in the bag. Full story.

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  • 1
    Jun
    2011
    11:20am, EDT

    Reclaiming Tripoli Street: citizens of Misrata emerge after the siege

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd has been working in Libya since the beginning of May, contributing frequently to our ongoing slideshow of images of the conflict. Today he filed a series of photos taken in the city of Misrata as its citizens readjusted to life after the siege.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A general view of Tripoli Street from the terrace of a building used by snipers loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during fighting with rebels in downtown Misrata, Libya. May 22.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A man walks next to traces of the battles in Tripoli Street. May 22.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A baby carriage is seen on top of a barricade in Tripoli Street. May 22.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A couple lift their daughter's pram as they walk next to a destroyed tank in Tripoli Street. May 25.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    An effigy is seen hanging from electric cables meters away from Tripoli Street. May 23.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    Women visit a makeshift museum where ammunition is displayed in Tripoli Street. May 22.

    The AP reports:

    The residents of Misrata came out as families — fathers with their young daughters, mothers with their toddler sons in tow — to survey with their own eyes what had become of their city.

    By word of mouth, they descended on Tripoli Street, the epicenter of the punishing fight between ragtag rebels and forces loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi who were besieging the city.

    Rebels expelled Gadhafi's forces from the western city after fierce street battles, pushing the front lines in a sweeping arc around the port city and giving civilians much-needed breathing room.

    People picked up baby strollers and carried them over the piles of shell casings littering the pavement, steering them around the sand berms and burnt-out tanks blocking the sidewalks.

    They snapped pictures of their children in front of the shattered facades, and surveyed a curbside collection of shrapnel and ammunition Gadhafi's troops used in their failed attempt to pound the city into submission.

    At heart, they were paying their respects to their brothers, their sons, their neighbors who had died defending Misrata. But they were also, quite simply, reclaiming their city.

    Last year, Rodrigo Abd and his AP colleague Evan Vucci contributed a series of PhotoBlog posts for msnbc.com from COP Nolen, a U.S. Army outpost in Afghanistan. Revisit that work here.

    1 comment

    I am sorry for the loss of life and the struggles that awaits them in recovery, if that word is spoken too soon, I am sorry still. Hope for the little ones, who are the innocent in this. Who won?

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  • 28
    May
    2011
    3:29pm, EDT

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A child looks out the window of the Azzurra passenger ferry during a trip from Misrata to Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 28. Civilians are now able to take the commercial ferry from the once besieged city of Misrata to the de facto rebel capital of Benghazi in east Libya. Fighting on their home turf, Misrata's rebels overcame the heavier firepower of Moammar Gadhafi's forces in punishing street battles that expelled them from the western Libyan city.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    Men gather outside the casino converted into a makeshift mosque on the Azzurra passenger ferry during a trip from Misrata to Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 28.

    Civilians now able to cross from Misrata to Benghazi on passenger ferry

    Read more on the situation in Libya here.

    1 comment

    A casino, converted into a mosque, eh? I thought I had seen some pretty ingenious conversions of businesses into churches here in the States. I believe this one beats them all.

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  • 5
    May
    2011
    7:33am, EDT

    Migrants reach the safety of Benghazi after terrifying escape from Misrata

    Reuters reports: A ship carrying 1,138 people evacuated from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, including dozens of wounded, arrived in rebel-held Benghazi early on Thursday, the International Organization for Migration said.

    Saeed Khan / AFP - Getty Images

    A wounded youth evacuated from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata waits for an ambulance inside a ship after it docked at the port in Benghazi on May 5.

    The Red Star One defied deadly shell fire to rescue African and Asian migrant workers from Misrata port on Wednesday, but was forced to leave behind hundreds of Libyans desperate to flee the fighting. Continue reading.

    Saeed Khan / AFP - Getty Images

    A doctor attends to a wounded man evacuated from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata on May 5, as a ship carrying migrants and civilian casualties from Misrata docked in the port of the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

    Saeed Khan / AFP - Getty Images

    A Libyan woman evacuated from Misrata is greeted by wellwishers as she gets off a ship in Benghazi on May 5.

    The terrifying scenes in Misrata, which we reported on PhotoBlog yesterday, were captured in this report from Britain's Channel 4 News:

    Moammar Gadhafi's forces are targeting civilians trying to flee Misrata, bombarding the port city, while a humanitarian rescue ship sits off shore waiting for the shelling to stop. Channel 4's Alex Thomson reports.

     

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  • 4
    May
    2011
    3:41pm, EDT

    Christophe Simon / AFP - Getty Images

    Fleeing migrants and Libyans are seen on board an International Organization of Migration ship leaving the port in the restive city of Misrata on Wednesday, as Libyan leader Gadhafi's forces pounded the city.

    Libyans flee Misrata, hundreds left behind

    More coverage on MSNBC.com:

    • Desperate Libyans stranded in Misrata resuce
    • Libyan govt shelling kills 4 as aid ship docks
    • Libyan rebels held city despite odds
    • Slideshow: Conflict in Libya

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  • 27
    Apr
    2011
    9:57am, EDT

    Bernat Armangue / AP

    Burned cars are seen next a plume of black smoke in the port of Misrata, Libya, on Wednesday, April 27. The port of a besieged rebel-held city in western Libya was quiet Wednesday after fierce bombardment and attack the day before by government forces.

    Burned cars lined up at the besieged port of Misrata in Libya

    For more of the latest images from Libya click here.

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  • 23
    Apr
    2011
    2:28pm, EDT

    Libyan rebels claim "Misrata is free" as Gadhafi forces retreat

    AP

    A Libyan rebel fighter looks out from a high building in the besieged city of Misrata, Libya, on Saturday, April 23.

    AP

    Libyan rebel fighters run across a street in the besieged city of Misrata, Libya, on Saturday, April 23. Government troops retreated to the outskirts of Misrata under rebel fire Saturday and the opposition claimed victory after officials in Tripoli decided to pull back forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi following nearly two months of laying siege to the western city.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Rebel fighters point at captured Gaddafi soldiers in the back of a rebel forces pick-up truck outside a Misrata hospital on April 23. Rebel fighters captured more than a dozen wounded Gaddafi soldiers and carried them to the hospital early Saturday morning.

    By John Makely, NBC News

     For more images of the crisis in Libya click here.

    3 comments

    There is a reason why Syria has been able to slaughter protesters and Gaddafi has not even been allowed to fight off a ragtag group of terrorists that fight without uniforms. Rothchild's and international banking are trying to finish off Gaddafi.

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  • 20
    Apr
    2011
    4:17pm, EDT

    Two photojournalists are killed and two others injured in rocket attack in Misrata

    It's an exceptionally sad day for the photojournalism community. Tim Hetherington, a British photojournalist and co-director of the documentary "Restrepo," and Chris Hondros, an American photojournalist with Getty Images, were killed by a rocket propelled grenade in Misrata. Two other photojournalists, Guy Martin and Michael Christopher Brown, were also injured. We are regularly updating our news story as new details emerge.

    Reuters

    Photojournalist Tim Hetherington is seen in this undated handout image during an assignment for Vanity Fair Magazine at 'Restrepo' outpost in Afghanistan. Hetherington, the co-director of Oscar-nominated war documentary "Restrepo," died in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata on April 20, 2011, doctors said. He was among a group caught by mortar fire on Tripoli Street, the main thoroughfare leading into the centre of Misrata, the only major rebel-held town in western Libya and besieged by Muammar Gaddafi's forces for more than seven weeks.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Tim Hetherington, center, is assisted by Libyan rebels as he climbs down from a building after gunshots rang out from loyalist forces inside in the besieged city of Misrata on April 20, hours before he was killed in the city while covering the conflict.

    We interviewed Hetherington here in January, after "Restrepo" was nominated for an Academy Award. He will be remembered especially for his work from Afghanistan and from Liberia, below, where he lived for several years. His work from that country was chronicled in the book "Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold". View a slideshow of Hetherington's work.

    Tim Hetherington / Panos Pictures

    Sekou, a young LURD (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) rebel sits in an abandoned classroom in Liberia in 2003. The infrastructure of the country collapsed during the four-year civil war which forced Charles Taylor, the President and indicted war criminal, to step down from office.

    Chris Hondros is very dear to the msnbc.com staff and our viewers for his many regular contributions to our site's pages, and especially "The Week in Pictures." Earlier on Tuesday, before we learnt of the incident which led to his death, PhotoBlog had featured his photographs of the fighting in Tripoli Street, Misrata.
    View a slideshow of his work from Libya and explore a retrospective of some of his best images.
    See the video below to hear Hondros describe his motivation for doing such dangerous but important work and see several of his most compelling images.

    2007: Photojournalist Chris Hondros of Getty Images talks about his life behind the camera, and his award-winning pictures from Iraq to Liberia that capture the moments in war-torn countries.

    Chris Hondros / Getty Images

    Above: A Liberian militia commander loyal to the government exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge July 20, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. Chris describes his work in Liberia and a funny story that resulted from the photograph above.

    Chris Hondros / Getty Images

    Samar Hassan, 5, screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, paralyzed from the waist down, was treated later in the U.S.

    Above: Samar Hassan screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, who lost the use of his legs, was treated later in the U.S. 

    41 comments

    These stupid wars are immoral. I'd like any empty suit in Washington to answer this question. Are the people in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. any better off today than they were with their dictators in charge ??? I think not. A lot of people are making money - That's the only answer.

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  • 20
    Apr
    2011
    11:26am, EDT

    House-to-house fighting in Libyan city of Misrata

    Photographers Phil Moore and Chris Hondros, who have been reporting from inside the besieged Libyan city of Misrata for the past several days, today followed rebel fighters into a house where pro-Gadhafi forces had been holed up.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Rebels fighters escape from a building they had entered on Tripoli Street in the city of Misrata, believing they had already captured it from troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, on April 20. Rebels entered the building, but were fired upon by several gunmen still inside.

    Chris Hondros / Getty Images

    Rebel fighters discuss how to dislodge a number of ensconced troops, loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, who were firing on them from the next room during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata on April 20. Rebel forces assaulted downtown positions, briefly forcing them back over a key bridge and trapping several in a building.

    Reuters spoke by phone to a rebel spokesman in the city who only gave his first name, Reda.

    "Fighting is still going on in Tripoli Street," he said. The rebels "are now controlling 50 percent of the street. The other 50 percent is controlled by Gadhafi soldiers and snipers".

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Rebel fighters storm out of a building occupied by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi on Tripoli Street in Misrata on April 20.

    Chris Hondros / Getty Images

    Rebel fighters carry a comrade wounded during the effort to dislodge pro-Gadhafi troops who were firing on them from a building (background) during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata on April 20.

     See more images of the Libyan conflict in our slideshow.

    7 comments

    The media is showing a picture of an injured child, yet this is only 1/100,000th of the death cause by Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign in Iraq. The media never showed pictures of the limbless children from Bush’s war of choice.

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