Scars of Modern Warfare
Ongoing project
Wars are often defined by their duration. By when they begin and when they officially end. But their consequences do not follow the same timeline.
Scars of Modern Warfare is an ongoing long-term photographic project that examines how contemporary conflicts continue to shape lives, landscapes, and memory long after the frontlines have shifted or disappeared. It moves beyond the immediate visibility of war, focusing instead on what remains the traces that settle into everyday life.
The work follows people living with the aftermath: those who carry physical wounds, but also those marked in less visible ways. Trauma, displacement, loss, and adaptation unfold over time, often بعيد from attention, embedded in routine, in silence, in the way people rebuild or resist rebuilding at all.
Across different regions, the project observes how war leaves its imprint not only on bodies, but on environments — damaged buildings, altered territories, spaces that continue to hold tension even in stillness. These places are not static. They evolve, just as the people within them do.
There is no single narrative, no fixed perspective. Each story exists within a broader continuum of conflict, where past and present remain closely intertwined. What is documented is not only what has happened, but what continues to happen — slowly, persistently, often unnoticed.
