Yemen & Syria – Between Two Lenses

Yemen & Syria – Between Two Lenses is a photographic project that documents everyday life under war through a visual dialogue between two geographically distant yet deeply connected human experiences. The project focuses on small details that reveal what

Yemen & Syria – Between Two Lenses

This project is a visual dialogue between two countries living life and war at the same time—through experiences that are both similar and different. It brings together the lens of Yemeni journalist and visual artist Aseel Swaid and Syrian photographer Catherine Ward, whose images narrate small, intimate details of everyday life: children laughing amid rubble, dolls hanging or abandoned in destruction, destroyed homes, prosthetic limbs, birds in cages, classrooms with missing walls, and old objects carrying the memory of homes.

The project opens a silent dialogue between two scenes distant in geography yet deeply connected in humanity. It captures life in the fragile space between a child’s laughter and ruins, between a small detail and two countries burdened by war; what remains of a human being after all this devastation passes through the details of an ordinary day.