24.Jul.13
56º world press photo: (2º prémio - spot news - singles)
interrogation
31 July 2012
Aleppo, Syria
A man suspected of giving money to government informants is held at a school occupied by the dissident Free Syrian Army (FSA), in the northern city of Aleppo. He was one of two captives believed to be members of the pro-government Shabiha militia, who were held and interrogated for 48 hours before having the money that was on them confiscated. The men were then released.
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Emin Özmen was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1985. While studying physics at 19 Mayıs University in Samsun, he began pursuing his interest in documentary photography and published his first book. Leaving his physics degree, Özmen enrolled at Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty. He began his career as a photojournalist in 2008 at Sabah, a popular Turkish daily newspaper. Later, he received a degree in media photography and documentary photography in the University of Art and Design Linz in Austria and toured around Europe as a photographer.