Wire Photographer of the Year: Mauricio Lima

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"Nothing else I've covered so far, not even in the Middle East, can be compared with Afghanistan. It was very intense in all aspects. I can tell that the two months there flashed by like two weeks in time — and yet they gave me two years of experience."

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