AFP’s Turkish photographer Bülent Kılıç awarded by Time Magazine
Agence France-Presseâs Turkish photographer Bülent Kılıç received Time Magazineâs prestigious Best Wire Photographer of 2014 award, with his stunning shots in a busy year full of events in Turkey.
Particularly, his photograph catching the emotion of a father seeing his miner son rescued became a defining image of the distress that followed the worst mining disaster in Turkeyâs history in the Aegean coal capital of Soma, which cost the lives of 301 workers.
Kılıç recalls the situation as a thorny one for a photographer. âSome miners and their families were attacking the press. You have to understand, their children, their husbands were trapped in the mine,â he told Time Magazine, recognizing that the picture was a âvery important oneâ for him.
The 35-year-old photographer also succeeded in capturing the exact moment when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were the target of an air strike on a hill nearby the besieged Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane in another memorable photograph.
Kılıç explained in his interview with Time that 2014 has been an exhausting year, as he ran to and fro from one event to another, starting with the clashes in Ukraine in January. He also said he missed spending time at home with his wife and baby boy. âWhen you go on an assignment for many weeks, or months even, at a time, you have to find time to stay at home,â he says, while adding that his family shows full support for his work. âThey know I like this life and this job, and they respect it.â
Previous winners of the award were Muhammed Muheisen in 2013, Marco Longari in 2012, Pete Muller in 2011 and Mauricio Lima in 2010.
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