Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets

Maryam Ashrafi

ISBN 10: 2490952161 / ISBN 13: 9782490952168

Published by Hemeria Dez 2021, 2021

About this Item

Neuware - Maryam Ashrafi's 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets
• Publisher: Hemeria Dez 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2490952161
• ISBN 13: 9782490952168
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 273W x 216H x 43D millimeters 273 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 43 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1412 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This book is the Winner of the Lucie Photo Book Prize 2022 – Traditional Category.

From 2012 to 2018, social documentary photographer Maryam Ashrafi covered the struggle of Kurdish people for its freedom and independance, choosing to stay behind the front lines and observe the daily lives of combatants.

« Rising Among Ruins, Dancing amid Bullets is a photographic project I have been working on since 2012 in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan, to bear witness to the consequences of war, namely to the lives of civilians returning to their homes after their cities are liberated, as well as to the daily life of the fighters behind the front lines while emphasizing the role of women in their ranks.”

— Maryam Ashrafi

About the Authors

Born in Tehran in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war, Maryam’s passion for sociology led her to focus her interest on social and political issues. After graduating with a BA in Social Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport, UK, she began to explore these issues in different regions, with a particular focus on the situation of Kurds in Kurdistan. For several years, she has been working on various subjects including refugees in Paris and the mobilization of the Kurdish and Iranian diaspora. Above all, as an independent freelance photographer, she covered the aftermath of the war in Northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan, notably in Kobane and Sinjar during numerous visits until 2018. Her work on Kurdistan has been the subject of several collective and solo exhibitions and publications including the Guardian. Her long-term work on Kurdish issues has also led her to work as a camerawoman for documentaries such as I Am The Revolution (2018) and to direct and shoot her upcoming documentary in Iraq and Syria.

Allan Kaval is a journalist for the famous French newspaper Le Monde; he was their correspondent at Erbil. He received the Albert Londres prize at the end of 2020 for an article on Daesh prisoners held in Syria.