Photojournalists @ Ultimate Risk

Photojournalists are the machines who risk their own lives just to do right things in vulnerable situations and cover the stories all around the world. ZOOM pays tribute to photographers who get killed, injured or harassed while doing their jobs in hostile environments.

Gleb Garanich of Reuters, risked his life when police blocked the protesters during a scuffle at a demonstration in support of EU integration at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine on 30 November 2013.

Ayman Al Sahili, a Reuters photographer reacts as he was shot in the leg while covering on the front-line in Aleppo by a sniper loyal to Syrian President Bashar el Assad on 31 December 2012.

French photographer Remi Ochlik is taking pictures during a chaotic situation when rockets fired by government forces hit the houses in Cairo, Egypt on 23 November 2011.He played a heroic role and shoot the entire incident.

Reuters Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis takes cover during a gun battle between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 2001.

A  policeman punches Greek photojournalist Tatiana Bolari during a demonstration in Athens' Syntagm square on 5 October 2011.

A woman photographer runs with a rebel fighter to avoid snipers at the frontier against the Islamic State fighters in Aleppo's northern countryside October 10, 2014.

Wheelchair bound Palestinian freelance photographer Moamen Qreiqea takes pictures of protesters in Gaza City on 01 October 2012. Moamen Qreiqea,who is  25, lost both his legs in an Israeli air strike in 2008.

People try to help photographer Andrade Santiago of Band TV Brazil, after he was hit on the head by a flare during a protest against fare rises on the Brazilian public transport system, in Rio de Janeiro on 06 February 2014. He was in a coma for several days and later he died.

A Turkish riot policeman pushes a photographer during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul on 11 June 2013.

Photographers cover as protesters and riot police clash near Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 25, 2013.

Samia Nakhoul, now Reuters Middle East Editor, was wounded in the US when a tank fired a hotel from where she was reporting. In spite facing all the hardships she recorded the necessary events for the world.

The Associated Press photographer Heidi Levine, who had worked 30 years covering warzones and revolutions in the Middle East, Libya and Syria, was announced as the winner of the inaugural award for bravery named after the Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus on 24 March 2015.

A photographer is seen in flames, as he tries to escape after he caught fire from a petrol bomb during riots in front of the parliament of Athens, Greece on 23 February 2011.

A policeman strikes AFP photojournalist Patricia Melo during a general strike in Lisbon on 22 March 2012.

Journalists, including New York Times photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, Getty Images photographer John Moore run for a cover during a bombing by Libyan government planes near the oil refinery of Ras Lanuf on 11 March 2011.

A photographer takes his position behind an empty water tank during an operation at Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro November 27, 2010.

Reuters Congo photographer David Lewis takes cover under a U.N armoured car during machine gun and mortar fire in Kinshasa November 11, 2006.

Doctors and medics attend to Getty photographer Chris Hondros in a Misrata hospital April 20, 2011. Chris get killed later after coming under fire in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata.

The photographer Joseba Etxaburu, of Reuters was attacked by a bull in Pamplona arena during the festival of San Fermín on 07 Septemper 2012.

AFP Photographer Kenji Nagai trying to take photographs as he lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon's city centre September 27, 2007. Nagai, 50, was shot by soldiers as they fired to disperse the crowd. Nagai later died.

A series of photographs captured by Ken Cedeno of Corbin Images, USA where the Reuters Greece photographer Yannis Behrakis runs to avoid an exploiding stun grenade thrown by riot police during violent clashes following and anti austerity protest in Thessalonkil, Greece on 10 September 2011.

DISCLAIMER: The entire photographs in this project are copyright protected by various news and media agencies. Commercial usage and distribution of these photographs are strictly restricted. In ZOOM these photographs are collected not for any commercial purpose and this is only a personal collection of some good photography projects.