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A Syrian Farewell
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A Syrian Farewell
Location: London, UK
Nationality: Syrian
Biography:
Abd Doumany, born in 1990, is a Syrian freelance photographer, born in the Syrian capital of Damascus and based in Douma. Before the war broke out, Doumany was completing his medical studies to become a dentist. Since the Syrian uprising, he has...
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Focus:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Documentary
Skills:
Photojournalism
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Syrians burry the body of a victim who reportedly died in a mortar shell attack at a layered cemetery on January 7, 2016 in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A Syrian man kisses the hand of his dead father who was killed following government air strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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An injured Syrian man looks for the last time at the body of a dead relative at a make-shift hospital following government air strikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A Syrian paramedic (R) consoles an injured man at a make-shift hospital following government air strikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.Â
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A portrait of a Syrian Christian family is seen amid the rubble of their destroyed house following  a government air strikes on Jobar, a rebel-held district on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus.
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A Syrian man carries the body of his brother who was killed following government air strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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The footsteps of Syrians who came to visit the graves of their relatives are imprinted in the snow at a cemetery in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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Syrians gather to mourn following a funeral of their family members who were killed in government air strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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The hand of a Syrian man who was killed in a government air strikes rests on the ground at a make shift hospital in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A picture of virgin Mary holding Jesus is seen hanging on a wall inside a destroyed Syrian house following government air strikes on Jobar, a rebel-held district on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus
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The body of Abdulrahman, a 17-year-old Syrian youth who worked with a civil defense group and was killed by a mortar shell attack earlier in the day, is seen at a mosque during his funeral in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A destroyed children's playground is seen in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.Â
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A Syrian man washes blood off the face of a child who was killed in government air strikes  on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A Syrian civil defence volunteer strokes the hair of a dead child who was killed in government air strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A bed is seen amid the rubble of a destroyed house following government air strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A Syrian man prays at a cemetery in the rebel-held town of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A Syrian man cries as he strokes the face of a dead relative who was killed in a government air strike on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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The body and belongings of a Syrian man who was reportedly killed in a government airstrike are seen at a morgue in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus.
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A Syrian man pulls a relative away as he cries of the bodies of dead family members who were killed in a government air strike on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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Flower vases are seen inside a damaged house following government air strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus.
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A Syrian man strokes the face of a dead relative who was killed in a government air strike on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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A Syrian man pushes a trolly filled with the rubble of his destroyed house following government air strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
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Syrians walk past a building destroyed by governemnt air strikes in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus.
When the last drop of sweat has dried, the eyelids closed and that warm heat and moisture starts to leave the body, that's when you know that time for farewell has come. Your heart sinks, vision becomes blurry and all your senses awaken to a numbness that wants to absorb the most of whatever is left of the last smell of your loved one, the last sight of your home, the last time your hand touches the forehead of a child, and the last time you run your fingers through their hair.
That heavy silence that accompanies the departure of the soul. The ground can no longer carry your weight and that dream of freedom becomes a clash between anger and past wishes. All of a sudden physical objects seem to bear the consequences of a once imagined liberty as we burry our dead into the scars of our actions.
Among images of bombs, death, shelling, screams and cries...farewell becomes the least photographed moment yet the most painful one of them all... absent to the eyes of the world but ever so vividly present in the eyes of those who suffered a loss.
That heavy silence that accompanies the departure of the soul. The ground can no longer carry your weight and that dream of freedom becomes a clash between anger and past wishes. All of a sudden physical objects seem to bear the consequences of a once imagined liberty as we burry our dead into the scars of our actions.
Among images of bombs, death, shelling, screams and cries...farewell becomes the least photographed moment yet the most painful one of them all... absent to the eyes of the world but ever so vividly present in the eyes of those who suffered a loss.
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