Photographer Catches Exact Moment Of A Tank Shell Hitting Syrian Rebels

Photographer Catches Exact Moment Of A Tank Shell Hitting Syrian Rebels

A reporter and photographer for GlobalPost.com, Tracey Shelton, earlier this week caught some unbelievable footage of some men of the Noor Den al-Zenke batallion from Aleppo, Syria being hit by a tank’s shell. She released a quick series of screenshots from the footage as photographs today. The photos are an incredible and quite horrific example of war.

Tracey was only a few meters away from the blast when it occurred. She was shooting with a Canon 7D and a 28mm lens on a tripod running at 30fps. While I have seen video captured of times of war, this has to be one of the most amazing examples of what can be pulled from video footage to quickly reach a global audience.

“As the cloud of smoke engulfed the street we ran back and frantically waited for the others to escape through the dust and debris. But no one came. In that split second, three men were reduced to broken, bleeding masses. After a few minutes of disorientation, a vehicle arrived to transport the bodies. The survivors washed away the blood and flesh in a heartbreaking clean up. New fighters came to take their posts. And the battle continued.” -Tracey Shelton

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From left to right: Issa Aiash, 30, father of three, his young brother Ahmed, 17, and Sheihk Mamoud, 42, father of a newborn son, laugh and joke as they clean their post Saturday.

(Tracey Shelton – GlobalPost)

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A call comes through that a tank was spotted nearby. The men immediately grab weapons. (Tracey Shelton – GlobalPost)

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Within seconds the tank blast has already hit. (Tracey Shelton – GlobalPost)

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Debris and smoke fill the street around 30 meters back – covering me and the camera in dust. (Tracey Shelton – GlobalPost)

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This man was the only survivor. (Tracey Shelton – GlobalPost)

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He escaped with injuries. (Tracey Shelton – GlobalPost)

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It took several minutes before the dust cleared enough to check for more survivors, but there was nothing we could do. (Tracey Shelton – GlobalPost)

I have always had a deep respect for war photographers and the courage that they have within themselves to help keep the world informed and educated about what is going outside most of our bubbles. How do you feel about the images?

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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NSBND5VP5PH3LLOQTBHA642W34 yahoo-NSBND5VP5PH3LLOQTBHA642W34
deep respect. death missed her by a few metres.
http://www.facebook.com/henryorth77 Henry Orth
incredible.
http://www.goodsmithstudio.com/ Denver Engagement Photographer
Great images. Horrifying and sad story.
David Parrott
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” ~Stalin
Photographers and reporters in war zones are faced with an immensely difficult task of both covering the horrors of war honestly, and respecting the dead. It seems Tracey has done a service to all of us in reflecting on the violent nature of conflict while memorializing the humanity of those who died, and avoiding veering toward the grotesque. Much respect to her. Rest in peace friends.
http://twitter.com/Reactivestills Gary Martin
Crazy stuff but amazing how he captured the images
http://twitter.com/GenericStrobist Dan Stone
what can you say… very powerful and moving
Alter Haase
How can a country fight their own people? This all does not make sense to me at all. I am seriously questioning if the human race should be really considered “intelligent”. It is capable to eliminate itself. This is not a sign of Intelligence to me.
http://marioguarneros.com Mario Guarneros
Not “he”, “she”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000126123396 Tim Waters
Amazing photos. How quickly life ends:(
Chris Herbruck
It is truly diabolical the way and the means that man will go to destroy another man. It only goes to help prove what Jeremiah said at Jerimiah 10:23 - I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.
As Voltaire once said, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” These pictures just cements how horrible man can be to another man all because of a belief.
http://profile.yahoo.com/WCTTGONKE5AP2Q6TU2NMM5SSAY Black
shopped
camilo gonzalez
What is the administration doing about this massacre?
KyleSanders
Or in NIV: “I know, O LORD, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.”
While we’re at quotes:
Ecc 9:11 -I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
jumpinjimmyjava
How terribly sad. Shame on the free world for not helping these brave souls.
Junction10
I’m sorry, but however ‘powerful’ these images are – they aren’t true photographic stills.. they are grabs from recorded video. They’d be STUNNING if they were true photographs.. but where is the skill in selected some key frames from a video recording??
http://www.rebeccabrittphotography.com/ Rebecca Britt
I think it’s the idea that she decided to release the screengrabs as photos right away instead of waiting to release the footage from the film she was shooting. As a news photog the quicker you get content out the better. I have to admit though the grabs look really good for being pulled out of the footage. Who’s not to say you can’t use a screengrab from video footage as photographs?
The best example of what can be achieved from video (as far as screengrabs are concerned) is our FS Original:
Will Video Cameras Kill Still Photography? Red Epic Vs Hasselblad
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Junction10
My point is that she’s describing them as photographs, and everyone is praising the skill and timing for getting these images.. ANYONE can record footage and pull ‘decisive’ frames – but you aren’t going to win a pulitzer doing it.. it’s not like hitting the shutter at the exact moment. Right time and place, but no better than any Sky, BBC, NBC, CNN news broadcaster could get.
bombomb
It’s about the content in this one. What did you take a picture of lately? A tree? BORING
Michael Murphy
Very powerful. I cannot help but look at the initial blast, the moment that those men stood for the last time, as if things were going to be ok.
As for war photography, I’ll pass until the day that my d4 shoots RAW as well as missiles. My hat’s off to those brave photographers.
Junction10
Well she should release the video footage then. I don’t take anything away from the fact she’s brave enough to be there documenting it.. but people claiming these are “fantastic photographs” is wrong.. they aren’t photographs.. they’re video grabs – BIG difference. I shoot music, not landscape.. I pick my moment.. filming it and picking stills is neither skillful or challenging.
njtrout2000
Can we say Pulitzer Prize candidate?
http://www.facebook.com/julian.silva.7731 Julian Silva
You know when your in the field especially in a war zone you gotta think how to record everything that is happening even if it means taking a video… and Because your doing a DOCUMENTARY…
its not all about skills, it’s just pure instinct of what you need to do to make your job right.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HU6NTNNEO7PB7CT7KURW3GBP3E Paul H
@Jumpinjimmyjava why don’t you strap an AK-47 and represent the free world in their fight to remove Assad. This is what you get when you are call a rebel. I am not sorry for any of these guys or so called FSA. They are the number once cause for innocent civilians death. If you want to fight don’t hide among the civilian population and fire ak47 or RPG. Get out of the houses and fight. Also we (west) are the cause of this problem. Same problem in Libya with our so called No fly zone to remove Gaddafi. Syria was a stable country with more freedom than Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and reset of our Arabs allies. But we want regime change in a country that is not friendly with us. Why don’t we request regime change in Saudi Arabia?And who give us the right to tell others how to live or govern themselves. We (west) is the the bigget bully in the world. I see where kids took it from. FYI please read about the importance of Syria in the arab world and why the west will want a Sunni puppet regime like Saudi Arabia to isolate Iran.
Thank you.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HU6NTNNEO7PB7CT7KURW3GBP3E Paul H
@ Camilo Do you want me to sign you up to fight with the rebels? Let me know.
http://www.facebook.com/julian.silva.7731 Julian Silva
In sports photography they’re already using this method just to take a good picture though.
Junction10
But how many sports images have caught the worlds attention and fooled people into believing the ‘photographer’ caught the action at the exact moment?
Do you think Eddie Adams’ images from Vietnam would have the same iconic status if they’d have been grabs from video?
KyleSanders
With DSLR’s running at 12FPS, they are only a few logical steps from video FPS rates. If the D5/EOS 1 XI goes mirrorless, it’s not that much of a stretch. Capturing the “decisive moment” is still about being there, no matter how the technology helps you.
AnnouncerAce1
Photojournalists use every tool available to provide an image and tell a story. Even before film and video, you never saw everything that was “snapped” because the photog didn’t release the bad shots. Fact is, it’s much more difficult to maintain composition when the subject is moving and you’ve got to stay with it. Selecting dramatic frames just provides faster access to the media (less bandwidth). In the cyberworld, video is for covering action with the added benefit of an audio source. Still photos are for art, weddings and pin-ups. .
AnnouncerAce1
Again I say, still photos are for art, weddings and pin-ups. You can not only pick your moment, you can stage it. You can’t stage live action, you must anticipate, lead, and still hope you’re safe and very lucky.
AnnouncerAce1
It’s exactly like hitting the shutter at the right moment AND STAYING WITH IT. Talent and stones…and natural lighting.
mohit vijh
Great photographs and taking the risk of your life over these great captures in itself is spellbound.
marty678
True. Belief and atrocities share a bloody history. But belief in change is the first step to creatiing change.
http://www.facebook.com/annemullettamg Anne Mullett
The desecration of man.
Imperitus
This is the evolution of the tech in photography. Would you discount any photo taken with a digital high speed camera because it was to easy to hold down the shutter and machine gun off a dozen shots a second and say, That’s not how real photos are taken? Maybe I know people who do. But like it or hate it that’s what the technology allows these days.
http://www.facebook.com/julianrhorsfield Julian R Horsfield Horsfield
Without being specific, I believe the onus is now on for the free press to publish photos and video of the realities of War in all it’s grotesque obscenity. fly post on billboards the horror, show pitiless realities on your websites, denounce your Governments. If people here at home saw the vileness of chidren blown to death then maybe, just maybe there would be greater outrage and volition to cease bloodshed commited in our name, sanctioned by idiots wagging their elbows in Whitehall or Washington. Personally I didn’t think these pictures were particularly good- too glossy. As long as every war is sanitised, in a culture of fantasy killing, where every gun totting creep is a”hero”- we ain’t got no chance. Splatter blood, real blood over every screen, people might start to think and feel more human. These journalists are every bit front line troops as the best commandoes, let’s not kowtow to propaganda. Information is more important than International Relations, Diplomacy, or one or other public school boy striding across the globe- so often they purportrate the crimes that allow the killings to go on. Julian Horsfield.
exposuresltd
Times have changed Junction 10. Since digital became the standard of modern photography…about 12 or so years ago, the definition of “photography” has evolved. What’s the difference of pushing a button on a camera or a remote triggering device and capturing 10fps or 30fps? It’s all photography my friend. The only reason photographers of the past would have a different outlook is because such technology had yet to surface in their days. It’s a new world now.
mishybear
But if you notice, the pictures are progressing in what looks like split seconds.
In the second, third, and fourth photographs, the four men in the
picture have barely even moved! I don’t think it would be nearly as captivating
if the journalist just posted a 2-second video.
And if the cinematographer captured a great video and posted stills of that video depicting how great it was, it wouldn’t be fair at all to say
“they got lucky they shot a good video. all they had to do was press one
button and just stand there.” filmography is a newer (although very
different) form of photography, and it is an art in its own way.
ApexofMediocrity
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Daniël Boomsma
How come the guy in the flack jacket and red t-shirt is still alive and well? (photo 2, 3, and 4.) Just wondering.
http://www.facebook.com/dave.lister.90834 ديني سوريتي
Precisely. The Syrian people don’t consider them as human being but rather some form of creatures. What they have done to their own people and what they are capable of doing are beyond anyone’s imagination. I’m almost certain that the actions seen in videos Youtube have not been witnessed anywhere else by any other regime in the recent history.
http://www.facebook.com/dave.lister.90834 ديني سوريتي
Seriously? Want Youtube videos of by far more horrendous stuff? Or videos can be photoshopped too?

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