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Hosam Katan 2014 Special Award
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Syria
Hosam Katan, born in 1994, is from Aleppo, Syria. He finished high school in the city before the war in his country started and planned to study at the university in the press section – but the conflict prevented him from doing so. Instead, he picked up a camera and began to take pictures of what was happening to the world around him.
“Photography has been my dream since I was small. When the war in my country began, with events happening every day close to me, I decided to start filming what is happening. I started working for Aleppo Media Center (AMC). I learned the basics of photography from the international journalists who started coming to Syria. In 2013, I began working with Reuters as a photographer. My ambition is to develop as a photographer and [work in] global imaging by covering events such as conferences and sporting events; to turn to photography in all its forms and to convey the true picture of the events. Maybe I can change the world’s opinion about what’s happening in Syria, especially because of the massacres I see every day.”
About the Photographer
Hosam Katan a Photographer from Aleppo – Syria, born in Aleppo at 2-1-1994 – I have a high school certificate.
In mid-2012 I began filming in Aleppo Media Center (A.M.C) a local network news agency in my city of Aleppo. I started documenting the events, which happened in my neighbourhood. I live in the city of Aleppo because of the war in my country and started photographing and when the foreign journalists and photographers began to come to Syria and the city of Aleppo, I started learning from them and they helped me and I learnt from their work. I went with them to the frontline and I learned from them and their experiences. In the late 2013 I began working as freelance photographer with the Reuters agency. I have been injured in the frontline when I was filming and a sniper from the forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad shot me and I was injured. I am now in Turkey where I receive treatment and I want to complete the work in the field of photography. I want to study at a university in Europe or America to make an academic study and gain a certificate from the university and became an official photojournalist.