Peter van Agtmael

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  • 2015. Horgos. Serbia. The closed Serbian-Hungarian border. The border had closed at midnight earlier that day, but thousands of migrants unaware of an alternative route hoped that it would be opened. At the border fence thousands of migrants set up tents and demonstrated into the night while Hungarian police stood guard on the other side and shined their flashlights at the cameras of photographers attempting to photograph them. It quickly became clear that it wouldn't reopen and the next morning most pivoted towards Croatia. There were clashes the next day at the border, and Hungarian riot police tear gassed dozens of migrants.
  • 2015. Telskuf. Iraq. A militia member gives flowers to Hana Najar, one of the elderly women resettled to a house near their barracks.
  • 2015. Gevgelija. Macedonia. An exhausted child is carried by his father through the darkness after crossing the Greece-Macedonian border. They were quickly processed and put on a train for Serbia. They were charged 25 euros a person, up from the pre-crisis rate of 6 euros. Approximately 5000 migrants a day pass through Gevgelija.
  • EGYPT. Cairo. 2011. An Egyptian M60 tank (made in the USA) takes a new position during an all night street battle between Pro and Anti Mubarak fighters.
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  • 2019. Montoursville, Pennsylvania. USA. Donald Trump rally in Montoursville.
  • 2017. Illinois. USA. Georgia de la Garza, a local environmental access in Southern Illinois. She is pictured from inside an abandoned house near the Eagle River Coal Mines-Franks LLC in Harrisburg, Illinois. Mining jobs have been the core of the economy in Southern Illinois for the past century, a source of stability, prosperity and pride. In the last few decades the number of jobs have declined to a small fraction of their former number, leaving the economy in shambles with few prospects for new forms of industry to take its place.
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  • USA. Des Moines, Iowa. 2010. The Iowa GOP Ronald Reagan dinner headlined by Sarah Palin.
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  • 2019. Tecate. Mexico. A woman singing at a cafe by the Mexico-USA border.
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  • Iraq. Baghdad. 2010. Living quarters at Camp Liberty, a massive American base in west Baghdad.
  • 2014. Gaza. Palestine. Two men warm themselves by a fire in the destroyed Shujai'iya neighborhood. Operation Protective Edge lasted from 8 July 2014 – 26 August 2014, killing 2,189 Palestinians of which 1,486 are believed to be civilians. 66 Israeli soldiers and 6 civilians were killed. It's estimated that 4,564 rockets were fired at Israel by Palestinian militants.
  • 2014. Jerusalem. Israel. The funeral of Avraham Walz, 29, killed in an attack earlier that day by a Palestinian in a stolen digger. Six Israelis were injured and the assailant, identified as Muhammed Naif el-Ja’abis. Walz was a member of Toldos Aharon, a strongly Anti-Zionist Hasidic movement.
  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2013. Protestors run away as Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at them. The Israeli settlement of Halimish is in the background. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue using it. The weekly protests quickly devolve into rock throwing by the Palestinians and tear gas, rubber bullets, and 'skunk' (a spray mixed with water that has a horrific stench that can linger for weeks) in response by the Israelis.
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  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2012. Mohammed Tamimi (also known as Abu Yazzem) in the door of his home. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue using it. The weekly protests quickly devolve into rock throwing by the Palestinians and tear gas, rubber bullets, and 'skunk' (a spray mixed with water that has a horrific stench that can linger for weeks) in response by the Israelis.
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