6 May 2012

Local photo sources, Syria.

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Documenters of the protests, the signs and the destruction:

Please notice: this is a layman's post. If you read it please don't skip the notes at the bottom. Also before you decide what to think of my writings: please read through my latest post (plead added 03/06/2014).

Besides the videos coming out form the Syrian opposition there are also some who use photography to document the protests and the destruction caused by the regime. In this post I have compiled some of those sources:

Please notice: the contents of the accounts linked-to in this post are sometimes changed by their owners. Therefore - in some cases - my introductions will be outdated (latest check-up: December 1, 2012).
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مشروع ذاكرة ثورة السوريه (Syrian Revolution Memory Project)
Maarat Al-Numan. Photo مشروع ذاكرة ثورة السوريه (Syrian Revolution Memory Project) uploaded to this Flickr account on November 17, 2012.

32,426 photographs documenting the uprising all over the country (this account uploadeds alomst daily).
Photos are supplied to the account by Shaams News Network and @HamaEcho and are organized in 1579 photo-sets labelled with location and date.

I have not been able to review more than a fraction of the content of this account, but never the less; to offer some points of entrance I have linked to three sets here. Use the arrow tabs to shift photos. To navigate the entire account you can exit any of the sets or use the link in the top of this introduction:
- Houla, Homs, Syria November 23, 2012  
- Darayya, Damascus, Syria November 14, 2012
- Atarib, Aleppo, Syria November 19, 2012
location: Syria

Syrian Revolution Memory Project also posts a number of daily photos to their tumblr account.

* note: it seems uploads has stopped to this account, but it is still very much worth a visit.
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عدسة شاب حمصي | Lens Young Homsi:
photo posted on Lens Young Homsi's FaceBook page on November 18, 2012.

1500+ wall-photos on a FaceBook account, documenting life in Homs during the conflict (this account uploads daily).
The photos are organized in 11 albums. I have linked to a few:
حمص | Homs
بستان الديوان | Bustan Al Diwan
- الوعر | Al Wa'ar

locations: I have only reviewed a few of the photos of the account, but from a fast look the focus seems to be on Homs.
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engahns546:
Photo taken in Kafr Nabl, Idlib. Uploaded on September 10, 2012. to engahns546's Panoramio account.
339 of the photos are in Google Earth.

792 photographs with mapped locations, documenting protests, protest signs, destructions and living conditions. (latest upload: September 21st. 2012).
locations: Homs, Talbisah, Idlib, Kafr Laha, Maarat al-Numan, Kafr Nabl, Damascus and Rastan.
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zanzoun: 
Homs. Photo uploaded on June 27. to zanzoun's Panoramio account. 152 of the photos are in Google Earth.

287 photographs with mapped locations, mainly documenting destructions (latest upload: June 28th 2012).
location: Homs, Old Homs, Hama and Douma (Damascus).
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Lens Young Yabroudi:
photo posted on Lens Young Yabroudi's FaceBook page on November 23, 2012.

965 wall-photos on a FaceBook account, documenting the life and the beauty of Yabroud during the conflict (this account uploads almost daily).

locations: I have not tried to verify the photos of this account, but from the name I take it the focus is on Yabroud.
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locations: I have only viewed smaller part of the photos on this account, but the title of the FaceBook page suggests, that the focus is on the North-Western governorates of Idlib and Aleppo.
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Abu Ahmed:
photo by Abu Ahmed uploaded to this Flickr set on May 8.

9 photographs documenting the destruction. High resolution versions can be supplied on request (latest upload: May 8. 2012.).
location: Homs
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FreedomHouse:
Aleppo. Photo uploaded to FreedomHouse's Flickr account November 23, 2012.

200 photographs documenting: protests, protest signs, cartoons, activist leaflets and destruction (latest upload: November 23, 2012).
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arabspringff: 
 Photo uploaded to arabspringff's Flickr account on March 31. This account is related to the tweeter 

85 photographs in 3 three sets (uploaded March 14 - 31, 2012).
- Destruction of shelling in Baba Amr, Homs
- Shelling and Destruction from Regime Shelling in Inshaat - Homs
- Shelling from regime forces in Inshaat, Homs - Part 2

- victimes from Houla [graphic]
65 photos of vicitmes of the massacre in Houla, Homs on May 25. 2012.
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Free Syria:
image uploaded to Free Syria's Flickr account on March 15. I assume this is a montage.

200 pieces of graphic art, cartoons, signs, manipulated photos and montages (latest upload: August 26th. 2012).
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- this account is up again.

It contains 900 photographs (337 in Google Earth) documenting protests and destructions (latest upload: October 22, 2012).
locations: Homs, Hama, Douma, Daraa, Daraya, Damascus, Palmyra, Deir Ez-Zour, Idlib suburbs and Aleppo.
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* note: the locations listed in relation to the different accounts are those given by the accounts. I have not made any attempts to verify this information.
- also: some photos seems to appear in more than one account, but I believe this to be a result of an agreed sharing.

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