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AHMAD LOUAI BARAKAT (born 1994) known professionally as 	About-us LOUAI BARAKAT, photojournalist and photographer And the owner of a company Dejavu.

Biography
LOUAI BARAKAT was born in 1994 in Aleppo, a young Syrian photographer who lived in Aleppo covered the civil war before forcing him to leave Syria and to go to France with his family. He spent his childhood in Aleppo. Studied at the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of Aleppo Then he specialized in photography He says I left Aleppo 23/08/2016 because I was arrested three times by the Syrian security forces. I spent about a year in detention between 2012 and 2013. The first time, I was arrested after demonstrating, I was detained for 15 days, I was tortured and then I was released. The second time, it lasted a month and a half, because of a demonstration there too, and I was able to go out by paying a sum of money to the officer. The third time lasted for a total of nine months, and I was transferred by military plane from the security section of the State of Aleppo to the general management of Kfar Soussa in Damascus. I was tortured horribly, in my body, I have burn marks on hookah, cigarette burn on my legs, and other marks physical. Even today I do not understand how I was able to leave this place of detention where some people have been detained for many years, some since the events of 1982 in Aleppo. Then I went out on the occasion of an exchange of prisoners, with Iranians - Turkey served as mediator IHH. These events date back to the end of 2011, it was in November Then I returned to work in Aleppo, to photograph and document the crimes of the Syrian regime against civilians. I was also arrested by Daesh on the 08/01/2014 because I was a journalist. Then I wanted to leave Aleppo in 2016 because I was present in Aleppo during the first siege of the city and the situation was difficult for me. Before the end of the siege of Aleppo, I was wounded in a bombing   - I received several bursts in the head and arms while I was documenting this bombing dated 11/07/2016. Report on LOUAI injury Then my home was hit by an explosive barrel bombardment with chlorine gas, a poisonous gas that my child inhaled on 10/08/2016. I then decided to leave Aleppo and I went to Turkey illegally. All this is because of the lack of freedom in Syria LOUAI worked on documenting human rights violations in Syria He documented most of what was going on in Syria during the war, such as bombing, death, children, siege, suffocation, and hope.

These are some reports and photos :'I cannot leave my people to die here': Aleppo's last citizen journalists Vita di un fotografo, ad Aleppo How The U.S. Is Unintentionally Helping Syria's Assad Un reporter syrien installé à Manosque raconte le martyre de son peuple à travers ses photos Underground Railroad Gets Families Out of Aleppo — If They Survive Journey Expo photo in Manosque: "Testify and authenticate everything that was happening in Aleppo"



Awards
LOUAI won the Best Picture of 2018 at ALLARD PRIZE

Exposition
LOUAI has performed 7 photo exhibitions in more than one city in France. One of the most important exhibitions in which he participated


 * 10ème édition des Nuits photographiques de Pierrevert 2018 Nuits photographiques
 * Visa pour l'image 2018

Coverage of events in France / Gilets jaunes /
LOUAI BARAKAT covered the events in France, which sparked the demonstrators the land of Paris in protest against the high prices of fuel and high taxes

LOUAI photos were always present in photos and magazines and received great attention.

The police have sometimes experienced rains of cobblestones. "The laws of circumstances are the most dangerous for freedoms" [https://www.humanite.fr/gilets-jaunes-veut-juste-reprendre-notre-destin-en-main-669446 YELLOW VESTS. "WE WANT JUST TO TAKE OUR DESTINY IN HAND"] The demand for liberal and non-social equality of "yellow vests" New test for the executive in this new Saturday demonstrations of "yellow vests" "Yellow Vests" in Paris: 92 people still in custody Sunday evening "Yellow Vests" in Paris: a huge black smoke Place de la République Yellow vests, act 23: black blocks, violence, number of protesters, what you need to know