Journalists Under Fire: Medyan Dairieh war correspondant for Al-Jazeera

Medyan Dairieh is a war correspondent who has covered many international conflicts for Al-Jazeera. One of the first to enter Libya to cover the war, He was injured twice and travelled right across the country. Living for months with the rebels in their camps, he was with them on the frontline and during many battles. He entered Tripoli with the rebels and was injured in the last stronghold of Abu Saleem.

For his pictures taken of the Libyan revolution, Medyan won the gold award in the photojournalism competition at the international festival held in Hamburg. Al-Jazeera also won first place for four photos taken in Libya by Medyan, fighting off strong competition from 651 other photographers from 43 countries. Medyan's images stood out from a total number of 14,371 photos entered into the competition.

An exhibition of Medyan's work was shown at the Park Royal, Willesden last week.

Medyan appears briefly in this video. His photos are available from his website, Imageslive.

See more photos of the exhibition here.