Afghanistan series Digital illustrations, 84 cm x 118 cm, 2022 Collaborating with photographer Giles Duley—ensuring people’s voices are heard. Brussels, early 2021. I received a call from Giles Duley. He told me about a collaboration he wanted us to develop around Afghanistan. We had started working together a few months earlier on a series of portraits of South ...

Achol Anyieth Digital Illustration, 84x 118 cm, South Sudan, 2020 Collaborating with photographer Giles Duley—ensuring people’s voices are heard. Part of the exhibition “Resilience and Collaboration: Stronger Together” presented at 193 Gallery. As Amer Anyieth, 42, talks to me about the war and life before she fled her home, her niece Achol, 14, prepares kisra, a thin bread made ...

Khemisa Mary Digital Illustration, 84x 118 cm, South Sudan, 2020 Collaborating with photographer Giles Duley—ensuring people’s voices are heard. Part of the exhibition “Resilience and Collaboration: Stronger Together” presented at 193 Gallery. South Sudan has been marred by violence and instability since its creation in 2011. War there has led to the displacement of nearly four million people, two ...

Deborah Nyuon Digital Illustration, 84x 118 cm, South Sudan, 2020 Collaborating with photographer Giles Duley—ensuring people’s voices are heard. Part of the exhibition “Resilience and Collaboration: Stronger Together” presented at 193 Gallery. "From the moment I first spoke with Deborah Nyuon I knew I’d met an incredibly special woman. Despite living in an IDP (Internal displaced persons) camp in ...

Ahmad Acrylic and print on paper, 100cm x 150cm, 2018 Ahmad, 27, from Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan, is married with two young children. Once a police officer, I met him in 2016 on the island of Lesbos, Greece, while working on my project "Waves of the Heroes", exploring the European border crisis. I encountered him as he was returning ...

Welcome to Europe Acrylic and print on paper, 200cm x 140cm, 2017 The sea stands as the final obstacle between despair and the fragile hope of safety. Since 2011, the war in Syria has forced more than four million people to flee their homeland, seeking refuge in neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, and, increasingly, further ...

Ibrahim Acrylic and print on paper, 100cm x 150cm, 2018 In 2015, thousands of people crossed the Mediterranean Sea toward Europe, fleeing war, persecution, poverty, and instability. Men, women, and children left their countries behind, carrying with them fragments of their lives, memories, and hopes for the future. From the shores of North and Sub-Saharan Africa, overcrowded boats ...

Tahera Acrylic and print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® paper, 120cm x 180cm Urban Nation Museum, 2019 (project "Exile") I met Tahera in Berlin in 2019, and I painted her portrait as part of my project "Exile" during my artistic residency at Urban Nation Museum. Tahera comes from Herat, the second largest city in Afghanistan, and she is a film ...

Majed Acrylic and print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® paper, 120cm x 180cm Urban Nation Museum, 2019 (project "Exile") Majed Abusalama is a Palestinian writer, journalist, researcher, and human rights activist from the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Born and raised under blockade and occupation, his work is deeply shaped by the political, social, and emotional realities of ...

Daliah Acrylic and print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® paper, 120cm x 180cm Urban Nation Museum, 2019 (project "Exile") Daliah is a Palestinian-Iranian woman born and raised in Germany, far from her roots. Her childhood was shaped by the traditional songs whispered by her mother and stories of empires and freedom fighters told by her father before she fell ...

A Home worth living for Digital Illustration, 84x 118 cm, Palestine, 2022 A Home Worth Living For portrays a young Palestinian woman, her face wrapped in a keffiyeh so that only her eyes remain visible. Behind her, an olive tree fills the background — a symbol deeply tied to Palestinian land, memory, and continuity. The image draws from ...