Hama,
Under the soil,
above the memory

A WARM Foundation production 2025, in partnership with the Prix Bayeux-Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents

This exhibition is a return to Hama, not as a city but as a memory long crushed by oppression and torture. The photos were made after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad system, in a place shaped by violence and deliberately rebuilt to conceal the truth and distort the city itself. These images do not record destruction; they bring what was buried back to the surface. They speak of a massacre meant to be forgotten, of lives without graves, and of a city still breathing beneath layers of denial. This is not an act of mourning, but of witness. Each photo insists that memory endures, and that Hama, like its people, remains present beneath the ground, awaiting recognition and justice.

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Damascus The Body

In 2010, I photographed Damascus every day for a year, walking the city without assignment or protection. In a place where carrying a camera carried risk, bodies appear not as subjects but as quiet presences shaped by memory and restraint. These images do not record events, but moments of living under pressure. Damascus, the Body reflects on belonging, perception, and life before rupture. 2010.

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Refugee Cats

This body of work looks at Syria beyond the language of war and statistics, returning attention to everyday life and to those often left outside the frame. Using cats as witnesses rather than symbols, the project reflects on shared vulnerability under violence, where fear, displacement, and loss are experienced without ideology or understanding. Begun before 2011 and reshaped by exile, the work follows a personal and visual shift from inside Syria to outside it, from film to digital, tracing how war alters not only lives, but also the act of seeing itself.

On the natural scale, a cat's size is smaller than man's, but in war they are equal and both are smaller than they actually appear. People don't see them well unless they have a closer look.

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