Waste

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Waste of War – Central waste sorting site, Damascus, 2025. Photographed a few months after the fall of the Assad regime, this series documents a manual waste sorting site in Damascus. Adults and children work there under unsafe conditions, sorting through the city’s waste by hand. The site reflects years of civil war, economic collapse, […]

Faces

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The men in these photographs were not professional soldiers. They were everyday people—farmers, workers, drivers—who decided to take up arms against an oppressive government. As I spent time with them, the reality of their situation unfolded in ways I hadn’t anticipated. I captured quiet, raw moments of emotional impact. Perhaps these images reveal the human […]

The flood

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During the Syrian Civil War, in a calculated effort to suppress regions of rebellion, the regime blocked the flow of water from the Queiq River, flooding areas in the province of Idlib, including the village of Abu Al-Duhur. This man-made disaster was intended to flood the region and disrupt the growing resistance in the area, […]

Raised in the mud

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The refugee camps along the Turkish-Syrian border in 2012 were meant to be a refuge, but they were little more than rows of makeshift tents on barren land. Thousands of families, uprooted by war, arrived seeking safety, only to face a new struggle—one of survival under harsh conditions. Among the endless lines of tents and […]