(CNN) -- Jonathan Alpeyrie has photographed 10 wars. He's captured violence in Somalia, Afghanistan, South Ossetia and Libya. But his recent week taking pictures of rebels in Syria was the most intense, frightening experience of his career. He compares it to Afghanistan when he was embedded in 2010 with the French Foreign Legion. "If there's a fight, the French soldiers are trained; they're going to protect you. They are skilled in combat and can fight back," he said. "In Syria, anything goes. The rebels want you to tell the story, but what they don't tell you is if something bad happens, they spread out. They leave you. You're unprotected.
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French-American photographer got into Syria through Turkey
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He carried equipment seven miles in dark to reach rebel village
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He shot images of the fighting by hiding in rooms in their homes
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He made it out of Syria riding on a truck, again in the dark, with fleeing refugees
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Alpeyrie stood close to another rebel to get a shot of the young man, cigarette dangling from his mouth, pointing his gun toward an area where @placeholder snipers were positioned.
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One of the @placeholder fathers traveling with them had two babies and couldn't both hold the infants and grasp trees as he navigated through the darkness.
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The group reached a camp and were able to get in the back of a truck that drove them a final 500 yards to the @placeholder border.