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Abdulmonam Eassa, born in 1995, in Damascus. He is a photojournalist covering international news.

His career began during the siege of his hometown of Hammouria, in the Eastern Ghouta region of Syria. He photographs daily, for the biggest agencies and international newspapers, the revolt, the war, the carnage that is this deadly conflict. He stayed there for 5 years until his departure in 2018.

He then covers French political news, demonstrations, social and cultural events. The newspaper Le Monde regularly calls on him for his ability to adapt to all situations.

Passionate about popular civil uprisings, their progress and their impact on the lives of women and men who want human rights, he decides to go to Sudan and settle in Khartoum to cover the revolt of the Sudanese people against the military dictatorship that is raging. in the country. He will travel to Darfur, land of genocide perpetrated by militias in the pay of power, will hide with young Sudanese hunted by the police in the streets of Oumdouran or will photograph the beauty of the natural parks in the East of the Country.

His photos feed Le Monde, NY Times, the Guardian, Washington Post etc. As familiar with digital processes as with film camera photography, he masters the entire process, from shooting to final assembly of exhibitions.

Since then, he has been recognized as much by his peers as by the public. He is the winner of the Humanitarian Visa d’Or from the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2019, and he also won the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents in 2022, YOUNG REPORTER CATEGORY (PHOTO) on his report “La rage peaceful ne dies not” on the Sudanese revolution.

His images have been exhibited at VISA pour l’image, photojournalist festival, in Perpignan, in Bayeux, at the war correspondents’ price. He is regularly called upon to speak at Science Po, in the press or at conferences to talk about his experience.

In 2022, he won the scholarship for the large photographic order from the French National Library.