Hosam Katan (born 1994) was just 18 when he began working as a photographer for the Aleppo Media Center. A short while later his pictures were being distributed by Reuters and appeared in numerous international magazines. In 2015 he was seriously injured, leaving Syria via Turkey at the end of 2015, and coming to Germany where he now studies photo journalism at college in Hanover. His work has been recognised with the Ian Parry Special Award 2014 and the Ian Parry Award 2015, at the Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest 2015 with the Special Nannen Award – an award for photography granted by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation –, the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2017, and the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2017.
