Unsettled Ground

Syria & Lebanon
2022

Syria & Lebanon

2022

An intact wall can divide a landscape as decisively as a destroyed building alters it. Photographed in Syria and Lebanon in 2022, Unsettled Ground brings damaged spaces into relation with the structures through which territory is divided, public life takes shape, and the past is made visible.

Broken concrete and hanging steel frame closed orange doors and blue sky.
01Khiam Detention Centre, Lebanon, 2022
A worn brown plush horse lies on a dusty floor among cables, pipes, broken equipment and a chair.
02Damaged theatre, Beirut, Lebanon, 2022
Two men sit beneath a canopy beside a Lebanese flag and political graffiti, with high-rise buildings behind them.
03Protest site, central Beirut, Lebanon, 2022
Women and children gather in an alley beneath laundry, cables and a political portrait.
04Tartus, Syria, 2022
A man holds two white boxes beside a doorway as a woman enters.
05Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon, 2022

Made while accompanying a food distribution visit to a refugee community.

A pale concrete wall curves across a green landscape, with buildings beyond and excavated ground below.
06Israeli-built wall, Lebanon–Israel border, 2022
A mattress rests beneath a broken arch with rocky hills visible beyond.
07Safir Hotel, Maaloula, Syria, 2022
Children and adults move through a dark vaulted passage beneath openings in its roof.
08Damascus, Syria, 2022
A stone gateway stands amid fallen architectural fragments under a blue sky.
09Temple of Bel, Palmyra, Syria, 2022
A damaged stone relief with missing faces remains against a blue wall beside small labels.
10Palmyra Museum, Syria, 2022
Pale mounts, metal supports, numbers and a label remain on a blue wall without their objects.
11Palmyra Museum, Syria, 2022