Winners of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2018
Heal
This serie is first of all a personal need of expression, towards the recent events evolving in the middle-east, in this project regarding the protests and the ongoing civil war in Syria. In every image a wild animal is put into a warzone, in the places affected by bombardments and by prolonged fighting. The presence of the animal wants here to represent the healing of these places.
The wild animal, in this environment, without the conscience of what has really happened there, represents the quietness, the end of the violence.
No animal can stand quiet in a place, while feeling the presence of imminent and actual danger for its life. Bringing them into these warzones, represents the possibility of this war to end, and that peace can be there again. The peace here is the nature, the wildlife coming back into a place where human beings and life were chased away. The suffering that fades away. To forget, meaning not the oblivion of what happened, but the chance to interiorise and overcome the pain. To reach for a peaceful soul and then to be at peace with others.
This serie is first of all a personal need of expression, towards the recent events evolving in the middle-east, in this project regarding the protests and the ongoing civil war in Syria. In every image a wild animal is put into a warzone, in the places affected by bombardments and by prolonged fighting. The presence of the animal wants here to represent the healing of these places.
The wild animal, in this environment, without the conscience of what has really happened there, represents the quietness, the end of the violence.
No animal can stand quiet in a place, while feeling the presence of imminent and actual danger for its life. Bringing them into these warzones, represents the possibility of this war to end, and that peace can be there again. The peace here is the nature, the wildlife coming back into a place where human beings and life were chased away. The suffering that fades away. To forget, meaning not the oblivion of what happened, but the chance to interiorise and overcome the pain. To reach for a peaceful soul and then to be at peace with others.
