A 17-year-old freelance photographer whose powerful images of Syriawere printed around the world has been killed while photographing a hospital in Aleppo.
Molhem Barakat died while photographing Kindi hospital – scene of a battle between rebel forces and President Bashar al-Assad's troops.
The teenager had been submitting photographs to Reuters news agency since May, and his photos of the war and daily life were widely published.
On Thursday, the day before his death, he took a striking an image of a member of the Liwaa al-Sultan Mrad brigade – a division of the Free Syrian Army. In the photo the man sits with his back to a mirror, which reflects the devastation of the streets around him. He cradles a gun, with Islamic scriptures on wall hangings displayed from the stone walls around him.