Leo Antonio
Valentinoالعربية
Photography

Documentary photography

Syria, on film

Damascus, Kafr Sousa and Sosyan. Selected film photographs made in 2009–2010.

Boys carrying trays above their heads, smiling at the camera
Role
Photographer
Form
Documentary photography
Status
Photographic archive

Colour and black-and-white film photographs of streets, work, families and everyday life. These images are also a foundation for the documentary Syria 2010.

The photographs are shown in their full frame. The web copies are prepared for viewing; the full-resolution archive remains separate.

Selected photographs

7 / Full frame
Schoolboys smiling beside a shutter in Kafr Sousa
Earthen domed houses in Sosyan, black and white
A child looks up beside a bicycle beneath a stone stairway
Two women working together at a stone hand mill beneath a tree
A colour photograph of stone arches above a street
A drink seller and boys outside a shop
A street vendor standing behind his goods

In conversation with

Documentary · Film photographs

Syria 2010

A return, a camera and a search for belonging. Photographs made in Syria in 2009–2010 become the starting point for a personal documentary.

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