The fighter on the right was one of the youngest of a group of rebels near the Aleppo front lines. Almost one year after joining the fight, he remains the last of the group still alive. Tom Daams is a Dutch war photojournalist. View his work at The Unknown Photographer.
The Seasoned And The Dead -- Tom Damms, Foreign Policy
On the front lines with Syria's war-hardened rebels.
In 2012, photographer Tom Daams flipped on CNN and came face-to-face with desperate citizens in Aleppo pleading for the world to help them. Daams was shocked by what he saw and finding himself unable to be a mere "bystander any longer," walked across the Turkish border into Syria that summer with camera in hand. He adopted the moniker of the "Unknown Photographer" -- a name that held a dual meaning for him: he first worked anonymously and he dedicated himself to telling the stories of people unknown to the world.
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