“Sometimes, you can’t really feel anything” Bulent Kilic è il fotografo dell’anno secondo il Time. Le sue immagini sono ovunque, anche purtroppo a causa dei conflitti che si sono susseguiti nell’ultimo periodo. L’anno di Kilic, fotografo professionista della AFP, ha inizio in Ucraina dove le proteste pro-Europa hanno cominciato a farsi insistenti e serie da […]
“Sometimes, you can’t really feel anything”
Bulent Kilic è il fotografo dell’anno secondo il Time. Le sue immagini sono ovunque, anche purtroppo a causa dei conflitti che si sono susseguiti nell’ultimo periodo.
L’anno di Kilic, fotografo professionista della AFP, ha inizio in Ucraina dove le proteste pro-Europa hanno cominciato a farsi insistenti e serie da gennaio. Era seduto davanti alla televisione a guardare il telegiornale con la sua famiglia. Ha deciso di partire subito e poche ore più tardi si trovava a Kiev.
A protester holds an Ukranian national flag from a burned building during a face-off against police on February 20, 2014 in Kiev. Ukraine’s embattled leader announced a “truce” with the opposition as he prepared to get grilled by visiting EU diplomats over clashes that killed 26 and left the government facing diplomatic isolation. The shocking scale of the violence three months into the crisis brought expressions of grave concern from the West and condemnation of an “attempted coup” by the Kremlin. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
Protesters burn as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police on February 20, 2014 in Kiev. Ukraine’s embattled leader announced a “truce” with the opposition as he prepared to get grilled by visiting EU diplomats over clashes that killed 26 and left the government facing diplomatic isolation. The shocking scale of the violence three months into the crisis brought expressions of grave concern from the West and condemnation of an “attempted coup” by the Kremlin. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
Women hold pictures of protesters who were killed in clashes with police during recent demonstrations as they take part in a commemerative procession in central Kiev on February 26, 2014. Ukraine’s pro-Western interim leaders were set to unveil their new cabinet today after disbanding the feared riot police as they sought to build confidence in the splintered and economically ravaged ex-Soviet nation. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
Dopo un mese in Ucraina torna ad Istanbul. Sente il dovere di documentare i funerali di Berkin Elvan, ragazzo di soli 15 anni ucciso da un candelotto di gas nel 2013 durante le proteste di piazza.
The coffin of Berkin Elvan is carried on March 11, 2014, in Istanbul. Berkin Elvan, who has been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, died March 11, his family announced via Twitter. The young teenager, the eighth person to be killed in the Gezi Park protests, went into a coma after sustaining a head injury from a gas canister as he went to buy bread during a police crackdown in IstanbulÕs Okmeydanõ neighborhood last June. Elvan has since become one of the prime symbols violence faced by protesters throughout the nationwide Gezi demonstrations. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
A young girl is pictured after she was wounded during clashes between riot-police and prostestors after the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year’s anti-government protests, in Istanbul on March 12, 2014. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protestors in the capital Ankara, while in Istbanbul, crowds shouting anti-government slogans lit a huge fire as they made their way to a cemetery for the burial of Berkin Elvan. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
A protester waves a black flag during clashes with riot police in Kadikoy, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, on March 11, 2014. Turkish riot police fired tear gas on March 11 at protesters massed outside a hospital after the death of a teenage boy wounded during anti-government protests last year and left comatose. Berkin Elvan, 15, who has been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, died on March 11, his family announced via Twitter. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
Tornato a casa, a maggio riparte per il distretto di Soma, uno dei distretti di Manisa, in Turchia, dove a causa di un’esplosione morirono 301 minatori. Una delle più grandi tragedie della storia turca. Kilic era lì prima delle organizzazioni internazionali e della stampa.
A man kisses his son, rescued of the mine, on May 13, 2014 after an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa. At least 157 miners were killed in collapsed coal mine in the western Turkish city of Manisa. “At least 200-300 workers were working in the mine when an electric fault caused an explosion,” the mayor of Soma, a district of Manisa, told private NTV television. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
2014. Four miner were killed and as many as 300 trapped after a mine collapse in the western Turkish city of Manisa, a local official said. “At least 200-300 workers were working in the mine when an electric fault caused an explosion,” the mayor of Soma, a district of Manisa, told private NTV television. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
Boats of miners are pictured in an outside building after searching for hours hundreds of co-workers who remain trapped underground on May 14, 2014 after an explosion and fire in their coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa killed at least 201 people. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
Il 15 settembre apprende dalla radio della mobilitazione della popolazione curda verso Kobani. Neanche a dirlo, il giorno dopo si trova su una collina curda che si affaccia sulla zona del conflitto, a Yumurtalik, sommità che gli permetteva di avere il controllo sui combattimenti tra le forze curde e l’ISIS.
“Cosa si prova quando le persone muoiono intorno a te?”
“It wasn’t easy. But this is war, and these people are also killing other people. Sometimes, you can’t really feel anything. Sometimes, you don’t want to talk about it.”
