The picture, taken by a freelance photographer for the news agency, shows thick, black smoke rising over buildings in Beirut.

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Umar Abbasi, a freelance photographer shooting for the New York Post, estimates he had to save Ki Suk Han last Monday before Han was struck and killed by an oncoming subway car.

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"You could tell who the normal chasers were, " said David Mabe, a 31-year-old freelance photographer, who drove 20 hours from North Carolina to shoot the Kansas storms.

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Citizen Couture: Former tax professional-turned-freelance photographer Jason Jean focuses on beautiful people within the fashion world and creative communities, but anyone can appreciate the subjects' seemingly effortless style.

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She is a freelance documentary photographer working in New York City, including for The New York Times.

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Wertheimer was working as a freelance photographer in New York when RCA Records hired him to follow the entertainer as he toured from New York City back to his home in Memphis, Tenn.

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The city has few out-of-control fires, according to David Lasker, a freelance photographer who makes a living shooting pictures of Chicago blazes.

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One was named as British freelance photographer Paul Conroy, who was working with Colvin, and Edith Bouvier of the French newspaper, Le Figaro.

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