Medyan Dairieh shares his expeience of Wartime photojournalism

This Month we are joined by Al-Jazeera journalist Medyan Dairieh

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Medyan is a war correspondent who has covered many wars all over the world. One of the first to enter Libya to cover the war, He was injured twice and travelled right across the country

Living for months with the rebels in their camps, he was with them on the frontline and during many battles. He entered Tripoli with the rebels and was injured in the last stronghold of Abu Saleem

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For his picture of Aljazeera taken in Libya, Medyan won the gold award in the photojournalism competition at the international festival held in Hamburg

Aljazeera also won first place for four photos taken in Libya by Medyan, fighting off strong competition from the 651 other photographers that joined the competition from 43 countries. Medyan's images stood out from a total number of 14,371 photos entered into the competitionhttp://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/6/1/4/event_69905652.jpeg

Medyan will be sharing his images and experiences with us, answering questions and also showing us some of his video work. Its setting up to be a facinating and insightful evening, can't wait to see you there

Doors open at 7 as per usual and you are all encouraged to turn up for that extra half hour to catch up with people, grab your drinks and nibbles and get to know your fellow photographers. Please make sure that you all complete the sign in sheet that will be on reception when you arrive so that i don't have to chase you up on it during the breakhttp://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/7/0/4/event_69905892.jpeg

I would like to apologise for the lack of meeting last month. I was up and down the country on commercial shoots, stuck in the highlands and busy at trade shows. I will make sure i always have at least a few days "off" each month to ensure that we do keep up and have a meeting every single month.
As usual i will be on hand to offer help and advice if there is anything that people would like to talk to me about. or if in the social part of the evening you want me to set up lights again or demo anything for you.

In the mean time please feel free to get in touch if any of you would like to pop down to the studio for a coffee and a chat at any time, i'm here pretty much all the time that i'm not on location or in meetings.

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