homestasis:5centsapound:Cihad Caner: Remaining (Syrian civilians, freedom fighters and refugees)War
homestasis:5centsapound:Cihad Caner: Remaining (Syrian civilians, freedom fighters and refugees)War photographers don’t usually carry colored pencils in their bags. But Cihad Caner didn’t want to photograph war. Using a polaroid camera and colored pencils, Caner creates diptychs of Syria that pair bleak, black and white images with written appeals for normality penned in bright hues. Anwar [#9] wants safety for his unborn child, and Adbullah [#1] wants to drink coffee in Damascus.“Almost everything has scars from the war,” says Caner, who traveled from his home in Turkey to Aleppo and Azaz to make these images. The photos don’t center on violence or tragedy, but instead, in the periods of calm before the shelling and firefighting begins again, the people who remain. After creating the pictures, Caner asked his subjects to share their thoughts and draw on the prints.The results are simple and startling: a red, hand-drawn sun rising over a wide shot of Damascus feels like a wistful tribute to the distance between present conflict and future peace; pink marks vibrate above a destroyed building as if the ground was still shaking.—Glenna Gordon via guerenica*If anyone can help me translate the written arabic in these photos, it would be greatly appreciated. French, English, Swahili, any translations I’ll add to this post, to help spread an understanding of this beautiful work.1. Abdullah; my wish in life is to freely roam the streets of the Sham2. [red: Ahmad, green: Saleh]3. I want a bright future for my children4. My name is Mustafa, I left my family in Turkey and I am here fighting for the sake of freedom for my country and my people5. My name is Anwar; I am married and my wife is pregnant and I hope that she gives birth with the rise of the sun of hope and freedom in my home6. [pink: Aisha] from the bullet holes we are born anew - [blue: Moaz] this is my place7. I have lost everything I own and nothing beautiful remains for us and I don’t know what to do, I ask you to help us; Faisal8. My name is Bassam; in the last week during the air strike I lost four of my family members9. Ibrahim Omar, (24) years, despite being far from the injustice of Bashar Al Assad I still fear death -- source link