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Not much gets out from Syria some of these are shocking. I don't now how long they will be up as they didn't set the flickr view mode for the photos to restricted.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chroniclesyrianuprising/

great set, they look like iphone photos, which is pretty normal these days as like you mentioned, not much gets out and much of what does is transmitted quickly through social media sites.

thanks for sharing the link.

We must take these photographs with some sense of surprise and skepticism. Civil war is unlike what the news media reports. I lived in Lebanon for many years during the civil war there and still to this day my biggest, most startling life lesson was the difference living there compared to coming to Canada and hearing people's comments and seeing the news media coverage. Of course, coverage is a bit different 1980's to today, and of course one war may be quite different from previous, but media coverage and reaction to extraordinary out-of-context images does not change.

Basically, the lesson is that civil war is overwhelming small, despite what photographs and media coverage may portray. Sort of like a weekend shooting in Toronto is marginally irrelevant to citizens in Thunderbay or Nepean. Life goes on, in some cases affected by the war events, in many cases unaffected.

I too watched tanks go down the sea road out my window, next day I went to school. Later in the week my dad and I went up on the roof and photographed the famous Beirut Holiday Inn attack watching shells bounce off the wall. Later we went swimming in the sea.

Awesome post Donald. ( no sarcasm )