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1. TIME Picks the Best Wire
Photographer of 2013
MUHAMMED MUHEISEN
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2. Muhammed Muheisen shows Afghan refugee children how his camera
works in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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3. While hundreds of dedicated photographers contribute tens of thousands of pictures to the world’s news
wires each and every day, only the most exceptional photojournalists manage to routinely make pictures
that offer fresh perspectives on the events that define our era. Established photographers like David
Guttenfelder and Jerome Delay with the Associated Press and Goran Tomasevic with Reuters, as well as
less-familiar names like Ali Ali with EPA and Mohammed Al-Shaikh with Agence-France Presse, have time
and again produced outstanding work over the past 12 months.
But throughout the year, one name has stood out from the rest: Associated Press photographer
Muhammed Muheisen. At-once authoritative and distinctive, Muheisen’s photographs have become
indispensable for news outlets the world over; in fact, throughout 2013, Muheisen earned distinction as
the photographer whose work appeared most often in LightBox’s Pictures of the Week feature.
Inspired by a spirit of humanism and driven by an appreciation of the ensuring power of the visual
narrative, Muheisen’s work consistently surprises. For these and for so many other admirable qualities in
his work, we are proud to name Islamabad-based Muhammed Muheisen as TIME’s choice for the Wire
Photographer of the Year.
The 31-year-old Jordanian national, whose work we featured on LightBox earlier in the year, was part of
the AP team of photographers awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for
coverage of the civil war in Syria — the second Pulitzer Muheisen has received since joining the AP at the
age of 19. Now the AP’s Chief Photographer in Pakistan, Muheisen is responsible for daily coverage of
news and features in the region.
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4. In 2013, he brought his singular talents to the streets of South Africa to document the uncertainties sparked by Nelson
Mandela’s ailing health. He continued, meanwhile, to produce enchanting images of daily life in and around Islamabad, where
he has been based for the past three years.
Even before he begins covering the day’s news, Muheisen — a photographer who clearly lives for his work — turns his eyes to
the streets, searching for the telling moment in the city awakening around him. He rises early to catch the morning light
trickling through the dusty slums on the outskirts of the city. Or he heads to a local school to make pictures of children as they
play, work and study.
“I love the quietness of this hour,” he tells TIME, adding that he seeks out “scenes that carry a message of life or joy. It is not
only my project, but my passion.”
Although many of the children he photographs are refugees, living on the edge of conflict, Muheisen’s images often capture
the innocent cheer and simplicity of his subject’s life, all while managing to evade the countless photographic cliches that such
scenes so often present. Born in Jerusalem, Muheisen is no stranger to conflict himself, and his later experiences covering wars
in Iraq and Syria have reinforced his commitment to illuminating the lives — and the struggles — of his subjects.
“All the children of the world share something in common, wherever they are from,” he says. “An image of boys and girls
skipping rope: that could happen anywhere in the world. Children are powerless, and I always do my best to let my image be
their voice, and let my picture carry their voice to the outside world.”
Viewers everywhere are richer for Muheisen’s compassion, his devotion to his craft and his unwavering, unblinking
engagement with the lives and the issues around him.
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5. Jan.
3,
2013
PAKISTAN Daily Life
Jan. 3, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with
their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting
between militants and the army, chant prayers during a class to
pay tribute for five female teachers and two aid workers who
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were killed by gunmen in Northwest Pakistan.
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6. Jan.
3,
2013
Jan. 3, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirl, Sadia Mukhteya, 12, who was
displaced with her family from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting
between militants and the army, reads in front of the class during an
English language class at a school on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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7. Jan.
4,
2013
Jan. 4, 2013. A Pakistani woman stands outside her
makeshift home in a slum during a foggy and cold
morning in Islamabad.
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8. Jan. 9, 2013. Pakistani Anwar Ali, 13, center, and his
brother Hamad, 8, sit around a fire to warm
themselves from the cold, while waiting for
customers to pose for a picture next to a snow
statue they built on a roadside, in Murree, near
Islamabad.
Jan.
9,
2013
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9. Jan.
31,
2013
Jan. 31, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirls who were displaced with
their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting
between militants and the army listen to their teacher in a
poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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10. Feb.
8,
2013
December 11, 2013
Feb. 8, 2013. Pakistani children, who were
displaced with their families by 2010 floods
from a village in Pakistan's Sindh province,
enjoy jumping on a trampoline in an
Islamabad slum.
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11. Feb.
8,
2013
December 11, 2013
Feb. 8, 2013. A Pakistani child sits on a wooden cart
outside her family's makeshift home on the outskirts of
Islamabad.
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12. Feb.
11,
2013
Feb. 11, 2013. A Pakistani boy, left, shouts at children, not seen, while
he and his sister stand outside their home on a wooden bridge over
sewage and rubbish, in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad.
Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and other religious minorities make up about
5 percent of Pakistan's 180 million residents.
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13. Feb. 26, 2013. A dog looks at Pakistani Kushti
wrestlers, right, reflected on a mirror, attend their
daily training session in Lahore. Kushti, an IndoPakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand
years old and is a national sport in Pakistan.
Feb.
26,
2013
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14. Mar.
21,
2013
March 21, 2013. An Afghan refugee boy, center,
watches chickens feeding in a neighborhood on the
outskirts of Islamabad. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million
registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted
refugee population in the world, according to the
U.N. refugee agency.
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15. Mar.
22,
2013
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March 22, 2013. An Afghan refugee girl carries
her laundry on her head after washing it in a
polluted stream on World Water Day in a poor
neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad. The
U.N. estimates that more than one in six people
worldwide do not have access to 20-50 liters (513 gallons) of safe freshwater a day to ensure
their basic needs for drinking, cooking and
cleaning.
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16. Mar.
26,
2013
March 26, 2013. Pakistani students of a madrassa, or
Islamic school, recite verses of the holy Quran, in
Islamabad.
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17. April
1,
2013
December 11, 2013
April 1, 2013. Pakistani children, who were displaced with
their families by 2010 floods from Pakistan's Sindh province,
play on a trampoline without paying, after the owner of the
trampoline left the place due to a heavy rainfall, in a slum on
the outskirts of Islamabad. Slums which are built on illegal
lands have neither running water or sewage disposal.
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18. April 9, 2013. An Afghan refugee girl, center, uses her
head scarf to cover her sleeping sister, while walking
in an alley of a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of
Islamabad.
April
9,
2013
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19. April
11,
2013
April 11, 2013. Afghan refugee children play around
wooden carts left in a poor neighborhood on the
outskirts of Islamabad.
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20. April 11, 2013. Pakistani daily laborer Wakeel Mohammed, 38,
sits on a roadside with his daughter Halimah, 1, on his lap and
his relative Khadijah, 7, right, near their home, in a poor
neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad. Wakeel and his
family fled Pakistan's tribal region of Mohmand Agency, due to
fighting between the Taliban and the army, and took refuge in
Islamabad.
April
11,
2013
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21. April
22,
2013
April 22, 2013. Afghan refugee boys, play a
traditional fighting game, on the outskirts of
Islamabad.
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22. 15,
May
2013
May 15, 2013. An Afghan refugee, right, drinks
water leaked from a water point on the outskirts of
Islamabad.
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23. 20,
May
2013
May 20, 2013. A Pakistani man, who fled his home with
his family from Pakistan's tribal region of Mohmand
Agency, due to fighting between the Taliban and the
army, sleeps on the ground on a roadside, on the
outskirts of Islamabad.
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24. 10,
June
2013
June 10, 2013. A horse for rent stands next to his
owner as he sleeps on a bed on a sidewalk in a street
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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25. 11,
June
2013
June 11, 2013. An Afghan refugee, center, covers his face
as he and others get caught in a sand storm at a poor
neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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26. 12,
June
2013
June 12, 2013. Shimraz Younis, 10, prepares clay
while working at a brick factory on World Day
Against Child Labor, in the outskirts of
Islamabad. Shimraz earns 200 Rupees ($2.03
USD) per day.
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27. 14,
June
2013
June 14, 2013. Pakistani youths enjoy a ride at
a makeshift entertainment park set up outside a
shrine in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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28. 17,
June
2013
December 11, 2013
June 17, 2013. Afghan refugee children
swim in muddy water created from a
broken water pipe on the outskirts of
Islamabad.
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29. 24,
June
2013
June 24, 2013. A Pakistani man and his two sons wash their
goat by a polluted stream on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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30. Aug.
27,
2013
Aug. 27, 2013. Two Afghan children chat while sitting on
a wooden bridge over a stream of rain water and sewage
on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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31. Sep.
16,
2013
Sept. 16, 2013. An Afghan refugee, her burka
billowing, holds her daughter as she walks to
her home through an alley of a poor
neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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32. Sep.
16,
2013
Sept. 16, 2013. An Afghan refugee washes her
laundry in a polluted stream in a poor neighborhood
on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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33. Sep.
20,
2013
Sept. 20, 2013. While waiting to travel with their family
from Rawalpindi to Peshawar, Pakistani children sit on the
window of a train, to escape the heat trapped inside the
cabin, as temperatures reached 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit (33
degrees Celsius), at Rawalpindi railway station. The Urdu on
the train reads, "Pakistan Railway."
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34. Sept. 22, 2013. Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their
relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church in
Peshawar.
Sep.
22,
2013
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35. Sep.
22,
2013
Sept. 22, 2013. A Pakistani girl who was
injured in a suicide attack on a church lies in a
hospital bed surrounded by relatives and
nurses in Peshawar.
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36. Sep.
25,
2013
Sept. 25, 2013. A Pakistani child lies in a bed
outside his family's makeshift home as a dog rests,
in a slum in Islamabad. Slums built on illegal lands
have neither running water or sewage disposal.
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37. Oct.
7,
2013
December 11, 2013
Oct. 7, 2013. An Afghan refugee boy wearing an empty
bucket on his head waits his turn to fetch water from a
hand pump, in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of
Islamabad.
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38. Oct.
9,
2013
Oct. 9, 2013. Pakistani schoolboys look out the
window of their classroom at other classmates
chanting prayers to commemorate the
anniversary of Malala's shooting by Taliban, at a
school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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39. Oct. 10, 2013. Afghan refugee children play on
the ground in an alley of a poor neighborhood on
the outskirts of Islamabad.
Oct.
10,
2013
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40. Oct.
14,
2013
Oct. 14, 2013. An Afghan refugee child sits
on roadside in a poor neighborhood on the
outskirts of Islamabad.
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41. Oct.
14,
2013
December 11, 2013
Oct. 14, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirls, who were
displaced with their families from Pakistan's
tribal areas due to fighting between the
Taliban and the army, sing with their teacher
before starting their classes, at their
makeshift school on the outskirts of
Islamabad.
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42. Oct.
21,
2013
Oct. 21, 2013. A Pakistani girl comforts her
brother near her family's makeshift tent in a
slum in Islamabad
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43. Oct.
22,
2013
Oct. 22, 2013. Pakistani women and children, collect
water from a well on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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44. Oct.
22,
2013
Oct. 22, 2013. A Pakistani woman walks back to
her home through a brick factory carrying a bed
on her head and holding a rooster on the
outskirts of Islamabad.
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45. Oct.
23,
2013
December 11, 2013
Oct. 23, 2013. An Afghan refugee child, looks behind
her while walking back to her home in a poor
neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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46. Oct.
28,
2013
Oct. 28, 2013. Pakistani students of a
Madrassa, or Islamic school, read verses of
the Quran, at a mosque in Islamabad.
Islamic schools form an important function
within the Pakistan educational system.
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47. Oct.
30,
2013
December 11, 2013
Oct. 30, 2013. A monkey sits on the shoulder
of an Afghan refugee surrounded by children,
on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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48. Nov.
4,
2013
Nov. 4, 2013. Pakistani children, survey woods
from a burning field, which was used by fruit and
vegetable sellers to store their wooden boxes, on
the outskirts of Islamabad. According to the
crowds at the site, the Capital Development
Authority burned the field because it was used by
the sellers to store their wooden boxes illegally.
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49. Nov.
4,
2013
Nov. 4, 2013. Pakistani children, survey woods from a burning
field, which was used by fruit and vegetable sellers to store
their wooden boxes, on the outskirts of Islamabad. According
to the crowds at the site, the Capital Development Authority
burned the field because it was used by the sellers to store
their wooden boxes illegally.
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50. Nov.
21,
2013
Nov. 21, 2013. Following her daily work with her parents
at a brick factory, Pakistani Nagina Mohammed, 7, walks
back to her home carrying coal over her head, that she
collected to be used for heating and cooking, on the
outskirts of Islamabad.
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51. Pakistani Mamouna Qamar, 4, center, looks on while holding her brothers hands, Shazaib, 6,
right, and Zaman, 7, as they wait for their parent, unseen, crossing a street in a neighborhood
in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Abdullah Ahmed, 10, who suffered burns in a Syrian government airstrike and fled his home with his family,
stands outside their tent at a camp for displaced Syrians in the village of Atmeh, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012.
This tent camp sheltering some of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians uprooted by the country's brutal civil war
has lost the race against winter: the ground under white tents is soaked in mud, rain water seeps into thin
mattresses and volunteer doctors routinely run out of medicine for coughing, runny-nosed children. (AP
Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) AP
Pakistanis working at a steel mill, from right, Nazir Hameed, 42, Khalil Zada, 24, Azeem Ibrahim, 31,
chat with another worker, not pictured, during a break, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 23,
2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
A Pakistani boy who lives near by a brick factory, covers his face with a scarf to avoid a sand storm, on
the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

52. Pakistani women line up to enter a polling station and cast their ballots, on the outskirts of Islamabad,
Pakistan, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday to vote in a historic election
pitting a cricket star-turned-politician against an unpopular incumbent and a two-time prime minister, but
twin bombings killing nine people and wounding dozens underlined the dangers voters face. (AP
Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) AP
Pakistani Kushti wrestlers warm up in the ring before fighting as part of their daily training, at a wrestling club in
Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old
and is a national sport in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Elderly Pakistani, Rafiq Moar Khan,
103, a retired military officer, is seen
in a market in Islamabad, Pakistan,
Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. (AP
Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) AP
Afghan boy Mahfouz Bahbah, 12, stands on a roadside hoping to sell his balloons during
sunset in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

53. A South African woman, bounces the ball on her head while playing with a football with other women, not
seen, next to their homes in a Soweto township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday,
July 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) AP
Pakistani Anusha Khalid, 4, dressed as a bride, poses for a picture at an outdoor Mass on Christmas
Day, in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP
Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
An Afghan refugee girl stands next to her family's sheep in a field next to a slum area on the
outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Pakistani Dawlat Gul, 7, third left, enjoys playing on a swing along with other children on the outskirts of
Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, July 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) AP2012

54. 1,
July
2013
SOUTH AFRICA
July 1, 2013. South African children play in a
public park in Soweto township on the outskirts
of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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55. 1,
July
2013
SOUTH AFRICA
July 1, 2013. A group of South African girls enjoy
skipping a rope in Soweto township, on the
outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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56. 4,
July
2013
SOUTH AFRICA
December 11, 2013
July 4, 2013. South African children look at a
fire which erupted in a field in Soweto
township on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
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57. 5,
July
2013
SOUTH AFRICA
July 5, 2013. Children, a choir and other well-wishers hold balloons to
release them to mark former South African President Nelson Mandela
completing his 27th day in the hospital, correlating with the 27 years he
spent in prison during the apartheid era, outside the Mediclinic Heart
Hospital where he was being treated in Pretoria, South Africa.
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