The truth will out

Mouneb Taim is a 20-year-old Syrian who has spent the last 10 years photographing the war in his home country. This is his story.

I do not have many memories outside the war as all my memories were between the sounds of bombing and the smell of blood. I started filming at the age of 13. My brother was killed while he was working as a journalist in Eastern Ghouta in the countryside outside the Syrian capital Damascus and I picked up his camera and started filming.

I continued my education in a basement in Eastern Ghouta until the ninth grade. My dream was to become a dentist but, with the war and the conflict, it became one of my dreams to become a war photographer and a journalist in conflict areas.