Life in Syria: Views of Aleppo and Idlib – Exhibition – Siena – Medici Fortress
Life in Syria: Views of Aleppo and Idlib
Life in Syria is a photographic project, which later became a book, born with the intention of showing the reality that millions of Syrians are forced to live every day, through the shots of five Syrian photographers and a civil society association, and presents some of the moments that marked the Syrian conflict from 2011 to 2016.
The photographic exhibition was hosted in Rome and London for the World Refugee Day celebrations, later it was also set up in Milan, Liège and Turin. The book, on the other hand, was presented at the Cà Foscari University of Venice, at the Middle East Now Festival in Florence and in national and international bookstores in Brussels, Rome and Innsbruck.
After 10 years of war, Life in Syria is still a living project that intends to continue to tell the life and difficult daily life of the Syrian population. In fact, after the production of the book and the exhibition – funded respectively by UNOCHA and UNHCR -, the Propositivo Association (Pro +) intends to support the authors of Life in Syria in a new challenge: the production in 2022 of a new book and a new one. exhibition, involving other young photojournalists present in the various regions of Syria.
The themes chosen by the authors of Life in Syria will be the role of women and young people in present-day Syria. To this end, a crowdfunding campaign will be launched on December 18 and will remain active for the duration of the exhibition.
The inauguration of the Life in Syria photographic exhibition will take place on Saturday 18 December at 18:00 at the Mutilati and Invalid War Palace in Viale Cesare Maccari, 3 (La Lizza) in Siena. Lorenzo Trombetta and Fouad Roueiha experts from the Middle East and Syria will participate and, via video link, some of the authors of “Life in Syria” who currently still live in their homeland and in other European countries.
At 19:00 the exhibition will be inaugurated in the internal rooms of the Madonna Bastion inside the Medici Fortress of Siena.