--- title: Photos: TIME Picks Bulent Killic as the Best Wire Photographer of 2014 description: Photos by Agence France-Presse's Bulent Kilic made the front pages all year canonical: https://time.com/3611797/bulent-kilic-wire-photographer-of-2014/ author: Olivier Laurent article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-22T09:00:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:41:46.954Z article:section: World og:title: TIME Picks the Best Wire Photographer of the Year og:description: Photos by Agence France-Presse's Bulent Kilic made the front pages all year og:url: https://time.com/3611797/bulent-kilic-wire-photographer-of-2014/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40cc3e2443fa9333/69876b92cd684800fc0984e8/bulent-kilic-times-wire-photographer-of-the-year-2014-202.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-KURDS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME Picks the Best Wire Photographer of the Year twitter:description: Photos by Agence France-Presse's Bulent Kilic made the front pages all year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40cc3e2443fa9333/69876b92cd684800fc0984e8/bulent-kilic-times-wire-photographer-of-the-year-2014-202.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bulent Kilic: TIME Picks the Best Wire Photographer of 2014 > Sponsored content. 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A militant of the Islamic State (IS) is seen just after an air strike on the Tilsehir hill near the Turkish border on Oct. 23, 2014, at Yumurtalik village, in Sanliurfa province, Turkey.Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images by [Olivier Laurent](https://time.com/author/olivier-laurent/) ## Olivier Laurent Dec 22, 2014 9:00 AM UTC Wire photographers often work in the shadows — their names frequently overlooked in favor of their agencies’ monikers, from Agence France-Presse to Associated Press, Getty Images to Reuters, and many others. For the past five years, TIME has turned the spotlight on these men and women who put everything on the line to bring us the news, to document what might otherwise go unseen. Their images have adorned the front pages of newspapers and covers of magazines around the world. Among these photographers, a handful of names repeatedly emerge from the fray. Getty’s **John Moore** proved, once again, that he remains one of the best wire photographers out there, producing some of the most [heart-wrenching](http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/19/ebola-outbreak-liberia-john-moore-photographs/) and [iconic](http://time.com/3627482/photographing-ebola/) images of this year’s Ebola outbreak in West Africa, where about 7,000 people have died. **Oliver Weiken** of European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) made a name for himself as well, documenting, early on, the African refugee crisis in Israel. In the summer, he made the long walk into Gaza — his third visit since October 2012 — where he produced an [impressive series](http://time.com/3394237/inside-gaza-and-israel-two-photographers-one-war/) of images depicting the scale of the destruction in the coastal enclave during the seven-week war between Palestinian militant groups and Israel’s defense forces. There’s no doubt we’ll see more of Moore and Weiken in 2015, but, when it comes to 2014, the year without a doubt belonged to AFP photographer **Bulent Kilic**. The 35-year-old Turkish photographer, who joined the agency in 2003, systematically found himself at the heart of the news in Ukraine and Turkey all year. His striking, vivid and memorable images have captured the attention of photo editors across the planet, especially in October when he caught the exact moment when militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) were the target of an air strike near the contested Syrian town of Kobani. For the last two months, however, Kilic has kept a low profile, working in Istanbul on local stories. “I was exhausted,” he says. “When I was covering the clashes in Kobani on the Syrian border, I would be driving every day, leaving the hotel at 5 a.m. and only coming back late at night.” That’s not the most ideal situation for a married photographer of an infant boy. “When you go on an assignment for many weeks or even months at a time, you have to find time to stay at home,” says the married photographer, who became the father of a boy this year. Kilic’s busy year started in Ukraine where the pro-European protests took a turn for the worse in January and February. “I was sitting at home with my family, watching the television when I saw all of this black smoke in Kiev,” he says. “The photos \[coming out of Ukraine\] looked incredible.” He asked his editors in Paris to go. “When I arrived in Kiev, the demonstrations were in their third month. It was still ongoing. I expected the situation to take a long time to develop.” Just hours later, Independence Square (known as _Euromaidan_), which had been overtaken by protesters, was a war zone, with pro-government forces firing on the crowd.  Bulent Kilic (center), TIME's 2014 Wire Photographer of the Year, in Turkey. Yasin Akgul There’s no doubt in Kilic’s mind: his work in Ukraine stands out as one the best assignments he’s ever had. “You could just feel the emotions of thousands of people around you,” he says. “It felt good. The demonstrators were singing and chanting and I was there with them.” But not everything went smoothly. Kilic had never been to Ukraine before, and he didn’t know how people would react to his work, especially when protesters started dying at the hand of pro-government snipers. “In the Arab world, people let you photograph people who have just been shot,” he says. “In Ukraine, I didn’t know what people would do.” So, he tried. “I saw this man die in front of me. I tried to photograph him, but his friends didn’t let me. They don’t like this kind of images.” After a month in Ukraine, Kilic flew back to Istanbul, thinking he would be able to take a few days off. That’s when 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who had been in a coma after being hit by a gas canister in the June 2013 street protests, died. “I felt that I needed to shoot this situation,” he says. “It was my responsibility, and I didn’t ask for any time off and just went to photograph the boy’s funeral.” Over the following months, his images were again on front pages worldwide when 301 people died in the explosion and resulting fire at the Soma coal mine in Manisa, Turkey. “This was one of the biggest tragedies in Turkish history,” says Kilic. “I was there before other media organizations, and that’s when I took this picture of a man \[kissing his son\] when he came out of the mine. This was a very important photograph for me.” Working around the mine wasn’t easy, though. “Some miners and their families were attacking the press,” he says. “You have to understand, their children, their husbands were trapped in the mine.” Kilic was targeted twice, necessitating police intervention to calm the crowd. But the photographer was unfazed. “You have to find a way to continue working,” he says. “You have to control the situation, but you shouldn’t stop.” And Kilic never stopped working. On Sept. 15, he was driving home after a soccer game when an unexpected message came on the radio. “I heard a call for all Kurdish people to go to the border with Syria to save Kobani. I thought it wasn’t normal, and I felt something unusual was going on.” He called his editors, booked his plane ticket to the region and the next day, he was on a Turkish hill in Yumurtalik overlooking Kobani, offering a direct view of the fighting between Kurdish forces and ISIS. “I thought this was going to be a very big story.” He wasn’t wrong. On Oct. 23, as Kilic learned that militants had planted their flag atop another hill, he rushed to find a villager that would allow him on the roof of their houses. “It was getting dark, and that’s when the bomb dropped.” Using a 400mm lens with a 1.7 converter, Kilic captured a series of four frames that showed the jaw-dropping explosion. The image has since appeared in most media organizations’ selections of the best photos of the year – including [TIME’s Top 100](http://time.com/3599787/top-100-photos-of-2014/). “A lot of people ask me if it was easy to see these people killed in front of me. They ask me if I felt something,” says Kilic. “It wasn’t easy. But this is war, and these people are also killing other people. Sometimes, you can’t really feel anything. Sometimes, you don’t want to talk about it.” Speaking matter-of-factly, “this is my life,” he says. “I chose this many years ago, and I’m still \[learning\] and trying to find my style. I’m a student of Yuri Kozyrev, James Nachtwey, Josef Koudelka, Robert Capa and Larry Burrows. I’ve been watching their work for many years to get a stronger vision. I can’t say that I’ve found it, but it’s starting to feel right.” And with the support of his family — “they know I like this life and this job, and they respect it,” — and from AFP, Kilic is looking forward to 2015\. “I don’t know where I’ll be going next. Maybe I’ll be back in Ukraine. But one thing I’ve learned in this job is that you have to be ready at all times.” **_Bulent Kilic_** _is a photographer with Agence France-Presse. He is TIME’s Wire Photographer of 2014\. Previous winners include_ [**_Muhammed Muheisen_**](http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/10/muhammed-muheisen-time-picks-the-best-wire-photographer-of-2013/) _in 2013,_ [**_Marco Longari_**](http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/20/marco-longari-time-picks-2012s-best-photographer-on-the-wires/) _in 2012,_ [**_Pete Muller_**](http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/13/pete-muller-time-picks-the-best-photographer-on-the-wires/) _in 2011, and_ [**_Mauricio Lima_**](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2039390,00.html) _in 2010._ **_Phil Bicker_**_, who edited this photo essay, is a Senior Photo Editor at TIME._ **_Olivier Laurent_** _is the editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on_ [_Twitter_](http://twitter.com/olivierclaurent) _and_ [_Instagram_](http://instagram.com/olivierclaurent) _@olivierclaurent_  A militant of the Islamic State (IS) is seen just after an air strike on the Tilsehir hill near the Turkish border on Oct. 23, 2014, at Yumurtalik village, in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A man kisses his rescued son on May 13, 2014 after an explosion in a coal mine in Manisa, Turkey Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Protesters burn as they stand behind barricades during clashes with police on Feb. 20, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers left by parents of an Australian victim of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash, laid on a piece of the plane, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A protester waves a black flag during clashes with riot police in Kadikoy, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, on March 11, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Syrian Kurds carry their belongings as they cross the border between Syria and Turkey in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on Sept. 23, 2014.. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Syrian Kurds wait near the southeastern town of Suruc in the Sanliurfa province after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey on Oct. 2, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Syrian Kurds cross the border between Syria and Turkey in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on Sept. 23, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A Kurdish woman runs away from a water cannon near the Syrian border after Turkish authorities temporarily closed the border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on Sept. 22, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Syrian Kurds go back to Syria at the Mursitpinar crossing gate in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on Sept. 24, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Members of the Syrian Kurdish Altay family try to spot their relative, Zamani Suruc, who is fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Oct. 20, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A Syrian Kurdish woman wipes her eyes during a dust storm on a hill where she and others stand watching clashes between jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish fighters, at Swedi village in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, on Sept. 24, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Syrian Kurds sit in a truck after crossing the Syrian-Turkish border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on Sept. 23, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Kurdish people mourn in a cemetery during the funeral of three Kurdish fighters Xahim Daban, Idris Ahmet and Mehmet Mustafa who died in clashes with the Islamic State (IS) in Suruc in the province of Sanliurfa on Oct. 21, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Men carry a coffin at a cemetery in Suruc, in the province of Sanliurfa, on Oct. 23, 2014, during the funeral of three Kurdish fighters who died in clashes with the Islamic State (IS) in neighbouring Syria. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  An injured miner comes out, carried by rescuers after an explosion in Manisa, Turkey, on May 13, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  An injured miner comes out, carried by rescuers after an explosion in Manisa, Turkey, on May 13, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Boots of miners are pictured in an outside building at a mine in Manisa on May 14, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  People mourn in a cemetery during the funeral ceremony of miners who died in an explosion on May 15, 2014, in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province, Turkey. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Duygu Colak, reacts as she sits in front of her husband Ugur's grave during a funeral ceremony in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province on May 15, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Syrian refugee boys swim in the Bosphorus on Aug. 8, 2014 at Kabatas in Istanbul, Turkey. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Supporters of Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan hold a giant Turkish flag during an election rally in Istanbul March 23, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A young girl is pictured after she was wounded during clashes between riot-police and prostestors after the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government protests, in Istanbul on March 12, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  The coffin of Berkin Elvan is carried on March 11, 2014, in Istanbul, Turkey. Berkin Elvan, who had been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, died on March 11. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Kurdish boys play in a field on Oct. 25, 2014, near the Syria border in the southeastern village of Yumurtalik, Sanliurfa province, Turkey. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A scarecrow like mock anti-government protestor is pictured on a barricade between protestors and government forces on Feb. 21, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Protesters build a barricade early in the morning on Feb. 21, 2014 at the Independent square in Kiev, Ukraine. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A protester holds an Ukranian national flag from a burned building during a face-off against police on Feb. 20, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  An alleged sniper (C) and member of the pro-government forces is beaten by anti-government protestors in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 22, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  People carry a coffin of a man who was killed during clashes, as they gather on Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 22, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  An anti-government protestor waits at the entrance of Independence square in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 23, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  People hold a large crucifix during a procession on Independence square in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Crosses and flowers left by people near a makeshift memorial in homage to anti-government protesters killed in the clashes with riot police on Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Women hold pictures of protesters who were killed in clashes with police during demonstrations in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 26, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Women walk in front of the Dinamo Kiev's stadium on Feb. 25, 2014, in Kiev. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  An Ukrainian girl cries as she stands on the road with her luggage after she left her home near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), around 80km east of Donetsk, Ukraine, on Aug. 2, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Bodies of crew members lie next to a destroyed Ukrainian tank in the northern outskirts of the city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on July 22, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Ukrainian children take cover under trees as a jet fighter flies over in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), around 80km east of Donetsk, Ukraine, on Aug. 2, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  Militants of Islamic State (IS) are seen during an air strike on a hill near the Turkish border on Oct. 23, 2014. Bulent Kilic – AFP/Getty Images  A Turkish couple shares a romantic sunset on a ferry on the Bosphorus, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 17, 2014. 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