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Thursday, June 13, 2013

19 Images Show War Photographers Working In The Worst Conditions Imaginable

Reuters photographer riot combat

It's easy to see a great image, and then click on to the next.

But behind every great image is a photographer, an actual human being.

And they're not always assigned to weddings and rooftop bar parties.

War in Libya, Syria, Iraq. Riots in Greece, Turkey, and even the U.S.

Here you'll see photographers working in some of the worst conditions imaginable, just to produce that image that people will look at for all of a few seconds.

A Turkish riot policeman pushes a photographer during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul June 11, 2013.



Photographers carry their cameras as a protester opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi throws a tear gas canister, which was earlier thrown by riot police, during clashes along Mohamed Mahmoud street which leads to the Interior Ministry, near Tahrir Square in Cairo January 26, 2013.



Photographers cower as protesters throw stones towards riot police along Sheikh Rihan street near Tahrir Square in Cairo January 25, 2013.



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