DANIEL RYE

Daniel Rye is a Danish freelance photojournalist. In 2013 he was kidnapped by the Islamic State while reporting on the refugee crisis in Northern Syria and held hostage for 398 days. Once he was released in the summer of 2014 he returned to working as a photographer and international reporting. His latest photographs can be seen in his book, While We Wait, about the climate refugee crisis. Daniel is also a former elite gymnast & teacher. You can read more about Daniel's kidnapping in the book, The ISIS Hostage by Puk Damsgaard.

"I went [to Syria] to remind people what was still going on because when a conflict is not sexy anymore all the big world media goes away."