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2021 | KURDISTAN, SYRIA

Syrian
Displaced
Glances

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2019 | PARIS, FRANCE

Yellow Vests
Movement

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2019 | JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

Zionist
Demonstration
of Jerusalem

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2017-2020 | BOSNIA, KOSOVO,
SERBIA, CROATIA, MONTENEGRO

Post-Yugoslavian
Balkans

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2019 | WEST BANK, PALESTINE

The Palestinian
Occupation

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Syrian Displaced Glances

2021 | KURDISTAN, SYRIA

Daily moments in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, nine years after the start of the Rojava Revolution. A revolt started by the Kurdish people with a conciliatory and inclusive project that has allowed the addition of Arabs, Turkmen, Assyrians and other ethnic and religious minorities within its borders, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people by the Syrian civil war are also stranded.

 
 

A Syrian displaced woman stands in front of her home tent in Washokani Camp.
- North and East Syria -

 

A kid stares at one Kurdish Special Forces guard in Jinwar village.
- North and East Syria -

 

Usual tent model in Newroz IDP camp. As a general rule, the number of tenants per barrack goes between 5 and 10 people, who are usually from the same family.
- North and East Syria -

 

Located in an ISIS-controlled area until 2015, the Washokani camp is home to nearly 15,000 Syrian displaced people.
- North and East Syria -

 

Born as a peace proposal during the war, the Kurdish political project is based on democratic confederalism: direct democracy, feminism and religious freedom. Since its inception in 2012, there have been many external destabilization attempts to conclude it, like the expansion of Islamic State or the Turkish occupation.

 
 

A girl jumps and hug one of the elder men from Carudi village.
- North and East Syria -

 

Two neighbours from Carudi village stands in front of their house.
- North and East Syria -

 

More than 13 million people have been forced to flee their homes with the war. 200.000 of them still live in refugee camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) waiting to come back home. A desire opposed to the increasingly entrenched war situation.

 
 

An oil well smokes on the horizon in one of the autonomous regions of the area.
Control of natural resources such as gas and oil have been one of the key factors in the development of the civil war.
- North and East Syria -

 

Hamza, 11, plays in a shelled building from Kobane, a city that was 80% destroyed during its liberation from ISIS in 2015. At the age of 8, Hamza left Afrin when this other Kurdish region was occupied by Turkey in 2018. He currently lives with his family in a house on the outskirts of Kobane.
- North and East Syria -

Yellow Vests Movement

2019 | PARIS, FRANCE

The Yellow Vest Movement was a protest struggle that began in France on November 17, 2018, which arose from the citizens' anger over rising fuel prices and rates. The Yellow Vests blocked roads and caused weekly traffic chaos for about a year until meeting some of their demands.

These analog pictures were taken in Paris during the ‘Acte VIII’.

 
 

A protester shouts after burning up a barricade to hinder the advance of the police forces in center Paris.
- Paris, France -

 

Two riot police officer arrest one ‘Gilets Jaunes' protester in the front line.
- Paris, France -

 

Police brutality became a common practice for security forces in cracking down the protests. The European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the UN denounced the excessive use of force by Emmanuel Macron's executive.

 
 

Police line equipped with tear gas masks during 'Act VIII' in center Paris.
- Paris, France -

 

Tear gas fired at protesters during one failed attempt to break the police line.
- Paris, France -

 

A protester applies eye drops to counteract the irritating effect of the tear gas.
- Paris, France -

 

About 3 million people took part in the demonstrations. After months of protest President Emmanuel Macron accepted some of the movement’s claims by giving up the increase of fuel taxes and announcing new social measures for the middle and lower classes.

 
 

A protester in a wheelchair flees a police operation with tear gas.
- Paris, France -

Zionist Demonstration of Jerusalem

2019 | JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (OCCUPIED PALESTINE)

During the Six-Day War of 1967 Israel conquered East Jerusalem, under Jordanian rule, thus taking complete control of the city. Since then, Zionist demonstrations have been taking place annually around the Jerusalem Old City to commemorate such an event under a heavy police device.

 
 

Zionist demonstrators wave Israeli flags at the entrance of Damascus Gate under the surveillance of an Israeli army sniper.
- Jerusalem, Israel (Occupied Palestine) -

 

A child plays with the stick of an Israeli flag between the tram tracks near the Damascus Gate.
- Jerusalem, Israel (Occupied Palestine) -

An Israeli soldier keeps an eye on the Zionist march through the streets of the Old City.
- Jerusalem, Israel (Occupied Palestine) -

 

The Arab population from the Old City is forcibly displaced during these marches. Among Zionist chants and some despective messages, the Arabs cannot move around the streets and homes that goes from the Damascus Gate to the Wailing Wall.

 
 

A Zionist protester makes the sign of victory with his hand to the Arab neighbors behind the police line. The mobility of Arab neighbours living in the Old City is not allowed during the demonstration.
- Jerusalem, Israel (Occupied Palestine) -

 

An Arab neighbour from the Old City observes the Zionist demonstration from behind the police line.
- Jerusalem, Israel (Occupied Palestine) -

Post-Yugoslavian Balkans

2017-2020 | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, KOSOVO, SERBIA, CROATIA, MONTENEGRO

With the 1990's Yugoslav Wars and the subsequent dissolution of the socialist state, a new political and geographical reality redefined the Balkans. 25 years later, several analog street pictures taken during some of my Balkans hitchhiking trips illustrate the intimate rutine of the zone.

 
 

The owner of a tinny home-restaurant from Belojin, Serbia, stands while talking with a neighbour-customer accompanied by her daughter.
- Belojin, Prokuplje, Serbia -

 

A truck driver smokes during his job trip from Sid to Krusevac.
- Serbia -

 

Two neighbours stand at a bus stop while a cyclist pass by.
- Krusevac, Serbia -

 

Much of the nationalist rift that originated the war stemmed from religious diversity among Catholic Christians, Orthodox Christians, and Muslims. Different faiths that still today separate regions between looks with suspicion.

 
 

Montenegran Orthodox demonstration claiming against the power of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the country.
- Berane, Montenegro -

Christian Ortodox church of Rozaje few meters away from one of the village mosques.
- Rozaje, Montenegro -

 

Landscape nearby Kosovar city of Pejë, where historically its diverse religious groups have practiced their faiths openly and have largely lived in harmony.
- Pejë, Kosovo -

 

Several public companies from the Yugoslavian period were privatized with the arrival of capitalism, making them collapse after few years. The actual unemployment around the Balkans flourishes many nostalgic memories of the socialist epoch.

 
 

Chimney of a factory in Krusevac’s industrial zone, where several plots are empty nowadays.
- Krusevac, Serbia -

Broken and abandoned road panel close to Belojin, Serbia.
- Belojin, Prokuplje, Serbia -

 

Empty plot in Krusevac’s industrial zone.
- Krusevac, Serbia -

The Palestinian Occupation

2019 | WEST BANK, PALESTINE

In the city of Hebron, southern West Bank, several Israeli checkpoints delimit the Arab neighborhoods from the Jewish ones. The Arab market, covered with a grate, is often discriminated against with garbage, debris and acid thrown from Jewish homes. Israeli checkpoints near Arab terraces are also a cause of friction and conflict. Various analogue pictures illustrate the daily life of the Arab quarters in both Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah.

 

An Arab neighbour complains from his rooftop about the growing presence of Israeli settlers in center Hebron.
- Hebron, West Bank, Palestine -

 

Garbage thrown by Israeli settlers to the Arab central market’s roof.
- Hebron, West Bank, Palestine -

 

An Arab neighbour rests on her balcony under an unused water tank due to gunfire shot by the Israeli army. In the background, an Israeli soldier controls the rooftops of central Hebron from his military control tower.
- Hebron, West Bank, Palestine -

 

A Palestinian man crosses through cement barriers around one of the checkpoints that separates Jerusalem from Ramallah.
- Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine -

 

A naked mannequin stands between other dressed figures in center Ramallah.
- Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine -