Objects We Carried
Nobody Packs the Photographs
Asked what they took, people name the useful thing and then, after a pause, the other one. It is almost never what an outsider would guess.
10 December 2020
Memory
Photographs, neighbourhoods and oral histories, kept rather than mourned.
Aleppo, Syria
The Photographs Where Nobody Is Smiling
A family box from Aleppo, sorted for the first time in forty years. The formal portraits tell you almost nothing. The three accidents tell you everything.
26 November 2020
Daraa, Syria
Daraa Was a Junction Before It Was Anything Else
The Hejaz Railway made the town a place where two directions met. A century later a 400 kV line crosses the same ground, for the same reason.
12 November 2020