tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73256603220807794552024-02-19T08:04:45.899-08:00Sam Tarling, PhotographerSam Tarling: photojournalist in BeirutSam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-19732993181909758542015-04-18T05:12:00.002-07:002015-04-18T05:15:31.591-07:00Moving house...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
These days I'm mostly posting updates on my Instagram account, which can be found here...<br />
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Beirutis this morning suffered yet another of what seems to be a string of tit for tat car bombings. This time, the target was a prominent member of the Sunni community. His convoy was destroyed by what is thought to have been a remotely detonated car bomb, killing him and four others and wounding around 70, according to the latest figures. </div>
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Although much has been reported of the loss of life during the recent fighting between Sunni fighters ant the Lebanese army in Saida (read more about it <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/dozens-dead-as-syrian-war-spreads-to-lebanese-coastal-city-of-sidon-8672131.html?origin=internalSearch" target="_blank">here</a>), thanks to Hisham, the guy pictured below, I was able to visit the homes of some Abra residents who had been caught in the crossfire.<br />
See the video below to get a good idea of how some of the damage was caused. The guys in the video are firing from the hillside shown in the last picture posted.<br />
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Changing gears a little here to take in a clash of crickets to greatest titans - England and India - who here swapped the green (or whatever it's called) for the remains of a destroyed factory. As cool as this looks, it's still a sad reminder that Beirut has pretty much zero public greenspace and certainly nowhere with grass that this could happen without greasing a few palms.<br />
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Sam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-41653196051952407702012-11-27T09:23:00.001-08:002012-11-27T09:26:30.576-08:00Refugees face cold winter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some 400,000+ people have fled the conflict in Syria, which has now been dragging on for nearly two years. Many of those that left with nothing but what they could carry live in extremely basic conditions – tents made of scavenged billboard hoardings, old schools, farm outhouses and part-constructed buildings. Now they face the prospect of a harsh winter with little protection from the cold. These images are all from a three day trip in the north of Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley with Save The Children in order to tug some heart/purse strings before the worst of the season sets in.</div>
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Sam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-89213689008635702332012-10-22T08:48:00.002-07:002012-10-22T09:00:13.868-07:00Tear gas and flying flag sticks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is my photo essay from Aleppo, which will appear in the October issue of Executive. There's also a slideshow on their website, <a href="http://www.executive-magazine.com/mediaalbumgallery/152" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Two neighbourhoods in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli have been at war with one another since the early 80's. Every so often the violence will kick off, a few people get shot by snipers and homes get destroyed by RPGs. These days, the conflict is being chucked in with the war currently going on across the border, as the two sides mirror the Sunny vs Alawite conflict currently wracking Syria. I'm not sure if either side have even tried to take so much of an inch of ground in this feud, which has been running longer than I've been alive, or whether they ever will. The last bout – which kicked off at the tail end of last week – was particularly nasty, with over 100 wounded and 17 totally pointless deaths so far. Read more by the talented <a href="https://twitter.com/mitchprothero" target="_blank">Mitchell Prothero</a> in the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/25/lebanon-tripoli-turned-into-war-zone?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">Observer</a>, who picked up one of my pics from AFP. Also check out this account by <a href="https://twitter.com/woodenbeirut" target="_blank">Josh Wood</a> <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/in-tripoli-nothing-that-happened.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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They may be buggers to find, but apparently there's some 90,000 Syrians thought to be in Lebanon taking refuge from the fighting across the border. The conditions in which they live differ greatly, but at the muddy end of the stick are a group who fled the embattled Babr Amr district in Homs and set up camp on a farm in the Bekaa valley near Chatura. As I said, finding these refugees can be tricky, and getting them to allow you to take pictures of them is neigh on impossible, due to fears of retribution for family members still left inside. However, a commission last week from Caritas – one of the many NGOs working diligently to offer what help they can – was a golden ticket into a story I've been bashing my head against repeatedly over the last year.</div>
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It's been a long ol' time since I visited Qatar with Human Rights Watch last year, but they've finally used the pics (see more <a href="http://samtphoto.blogspot.com/2011/06/workers-of-qatar.html" target="_blank">here</a>) for their report on the conditions faced by migrant workers in Qatar as they begin putting the infrastructure together for the 2022 World Cup, Read the report <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/12/qatar-migrant-construction-workers-face-abuse" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>Sam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-86863121674824938922012-04-04T04:26:00.001-07:002012-04-04T04:32:50.967-07:00A walk around Beddawi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the Beddawi refugee camp, just a few kilometers north of Tripoli, 20-something-thousand Palestinian exiles live within an area of around a single square kilometer. As far as Lebanon's camps go, this one is pretty relaxed, a far cry from the likes of Ain el Helweh. Conditions are hard, but easing; more and more of the 15,000 refugees from neighbouring the Nahr el Bared camp – whose presence doubled the population of Beddawi after the army razed their camp in 2007 – are now returning home. Population figures aside, the camp still suffers from the endemic maladies of Lebanon's Palestinian population; poor services, poor education and poor prospects for anything better anytime soon.</div>
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These were taken while working on a story with the ever wise scribe Mr <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/woodenbeirut" target="_blank">Josh Wood</a> and talented translator Miss<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/zizastan" target="_blank"> Naziha Baassiri</a>, which will no doubt soon be gracing the pages of the International Herald Tribune for y'all to read (hopefully with one of these pics). All three patients are suffering paralysis to some degree, which they claim is due to gunfire from government forces whilst they were attending protests, and are receiving treatment at a private hospital in Tripoli.</div>
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I missed the fighting in Tripoli on Saturday but on Sunday, myself and colleagues <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDQQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwoodenbeirut.wordpress.com%2F&ei=aDA5T67kGsa90QWW6_yxBw&usg=AFQjCNFGAn1HcbNwGS2N1TknCAo7fPQFaQ" target="_blank">Josh Wood</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/zakbrophy" target="_blank">Zak Brophy</a> went to sift through (almost still smoldering) the rubble. We saw residential apartments in both neighbourhoods that had been wrecked by RPG/Energa fire, with people from both sides claiming that the other was entirely to blame. </div>
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This scenario is old news here, these neighbourhoods have been fighting for years. However, the current conflict in Syria has given them yet another reason to have at it, and sadly, likely the the funds to do so too. During the Civil War Lebanon was a sandpit in which the world waged its wars; it'll be a sad day if this becomes the case again.</div>
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<br /></div>Sam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-80852558247664489842012-02-11T15:20:00.000-08:002012-02-13T07:07:05.719-08:00Protests and potshots in Tripoli<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A new sight for me at the Sunni anti-Assad protests in Tripoli (that'll be the Lebanese one) on Friday was a small female contingent, albeit separated from the male demonstrators by a rather stern chaperone.</div>
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Following the protests, fighting erupted between militias in two neighbouring yet warring districts of the city. The hardline Sunni/Salafi and Alawite communities have been at each others' throats since the civil war but things are heating up here as it's now a sectarian microcosm for the fighting across the border in Syria. More about that from the tweets of the talented Mr. <a href="http://woodenbeirut.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Joshua Wood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/woodenbeirut" target="_blank">here </a>and the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16997656" target="_blank">BBC</a>. Sadly I filed too late too make the Reuters deadline, dammit.<br />
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On January 15th, a seven story building just two blocks from my apartment collapsed, killing twenty seven of the inhabitants. While Lebanese civil society rallied around those that survived and the community mourned those that it had lost, the Lebanese government's response was nothing short of disgusting. See <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jan-20/160486-2-sudanese-collapse-survivors-taken-into-custody.ashx#axzz1kUCIwsaF" target="_blank">here</a>, how two of the survivors were arrested while still in hospital for having incorrect work visas, and <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jan-21/160600-safety-work-stalled-ashrafieh-residents-in-limbo.ashx#axzz1kUCIwsaF" target="_blank">here</a>, how the residents of an entire nearby building have been kept out of their homes because opposing political groups are fighting over who gets the kudos of sending in engineers and check that it's safe. This tragedy quickly became a photo op for Lebanon's political elite who shouted themselves hoarse trying to out do each other with condemnations and calls for investigations. </div>
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<br /></div>Sam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-41164122399944684722012-01-25T13:38:00.000-08:002012-02-11T15:37:42.748-08:00Ghost refinery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's hard to believe in the today's world of Gulf oil Goliaths, but back in the 80s Lebanon's Beddawi Oil Refinery was once a crown jewel in the region's petrochemical industry, well, that was according to Salim Rizk, the former shift supervisor who was kind enough to show me around the mothballed plant this week. That's him below, entering the plant's control room for the first time in 20 years. Beautiful light, decaying machinery, great access. Good day. </div>
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<br /></div>Sam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-10630443596177521942011-12-06T07:11:00.001-08:002012-02-11T15:53:55.695-08:00Unhappy holidays: Ashura 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anyone in need of history lesson regarding Ashura, look<span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Ashura" target="_blank">here</a>. In Lebanon most of those who mark the event stick to ritual chest-smacking and non take it to the extremes as those in the southern town of Nabatiyeh. It's a bit of a gratuitous event for me, no real news value as such but visually it's certainly arresting. Walking backwards amid a large group of excitable men vigorously waving large, sharp swords takes a modicum of faith; fortunately the inevitable spatters I had to clean off myself and my gear were all due to mourners.</div>
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<br /></div>Sam Tarlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595598694263975155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325660322080779455.post-59772680131301725752011-10-31T21:30:00.000-07:002012-02-20T13:40:50.568-08:00Once were wrestlers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Actually the title of this post is total crap. These guys are very much still wrestlers and the brightest and best among them are being touted by some of the more optimistic voices as a way to offer an economic alternative to cattle rustling, an problem endemic across South Sudan. Commercialising the sport would be a small but useful boost for the world's newest country, which has hardly any economy to speak of. For the most part, the people have no cash; even if they did, hardly anything is produced here and there's limited options for transporting goods so it's not much like there is much to buy in the first place.</div>
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After two weeks here it seems that the country has a long, long, journey ahead of it - a fact acknowledged by almost every one we've spoken to - but there's a generally pervasive attitude that people are proud as hell of their new country and want to do right by it.</div>
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