While many refugees are very poor, and most find themselves in a precarious position, there are also working class, middle class, and wealthy Syrians who have made this exodus. Most registered refugees don't live in camps, they live in Turkish towns and cities, alongside their new Turkish neighbors. Nish has been following this story for several years, chronicling the circumstances of many whose lives have been upended and forced to flee. “What makes his work different is its focus not simply on Syrian refugees as victims but on the diversity of their experiences.”,Ĭontributions by Javier Manzano, Carmen Gentile, and Karam ShoumaliĪ Handful of Dust is an essential collection of reportage for those following the conflict in Syria and its impact on the rest of the world.Ī Handful of Dust gives a glimpse into the approximately 3 million Syrians who have fled war in their home country and are living in Turkey. He invites us to identify, to feel compassion.”, “Photographer Nish Nalbandian gives some of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees a face, a body, a voice.
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