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Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets (Hardcover)
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Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets (Hardcover)
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Maryam Ashrafi is a social documentary photographer who believes in
long term projects, she chooses to stay behind the front lines and
observe the daily lives of combatants, which includes a lot of
waiting around. She is above all involved in documenting the
everyday life on the Kurdish front. Her work puts a face on a
widely commented war which remains, from afar, perceived mainly by
the West in terms of the number of refugees. Maryam documents the
war in her own way, stressing its complexities and the actual
building of a new social model based on equality where women occupy
the same roles as men, which is remarkable in this area of the
world. This is why, over the years, she has returned to the same
places, from Kobane to Tabqa, to show the unique power of the
resilience of the population and the will to live and change. "The
struggle of the Kurdish people and their fight for freedom and
fundamental rights have not come to an end, and therefore this book
cannot portray all of their journeys, nor shall I stop documenting
what is still to come. Yet I believe, as a witness, I owe it to
history and to those I have met for sharing some of these images in
this book to show part of their journey to freedom and equality",
Maryam believes. The book is built on the chronology of the events
as documented by Maryam Ashrafi, to understand the evolution of the
conflict and its consequences on the populations and their living
environment. Photographer James Nachtwey once made a point about
such war photographs shown in museums, or in a book; it is "a space
for reflection on the universality of the dramas that humanity is
going through in its entirety". During her travels, Maryam Ashrafi
has created a body of images which highlight very important topics
as they are an immediate consequence of war, from the sheer
destruction to the refugee camps, as they evoke the foundations of
the culture and the identity of the Kurdish people - the ceremonies
in honour of martyrs, dances around fires, New Year celebrations
etc. Finally, Maryam Ashrafi's work is also about empathy and about
invisible wounds; it is obvious that one could not witness a
conflict without being caught up in the daily suffering, especially
children and women. Maryam finds emotions and feelings, in simple
gestures, smiles and dances, these moments of intimacy. The
presence of the photographer is forgotten, there remains only the
reality of their fight and the resilience of a people. In these
moments, she captures expressions that speak so much more than long
speeches. Let's listen to them in the midst of ruins, dancing amid
bullets.
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