ENTRY DESCRIPTION
2023. Lebanon, Beirut. Sabra & Chatila refugee camps.

This is the family of Ahmed Mohammed Kain, centre with his two sons on either side.
The camp's refugees are mostly Palestinians, almost half are Syrians and Lebanese.
This is the third generation of Palestinians born and raised in the camp in inhuman conditions.
Ahmed is one of the survivors of the Sabra & Chatila massacre in 1982. He and his two sons live in a 4m2 house without electricity or running water.
Ahmed tells how, during the 1982 massacre, he hid for three days in the water tanks of a house; how he lost his mother and sister; how he found the body of a pregnant woman with her stomach ripped open and her fetus slit.

AUTHOR
Alessandro Cimma is a photographer born in Biella in 1996.
Growing up in nature, he has always practiced numerous sports, becoming a ski
instructor in the Aosta Valley at the age of twenty.
He decides to move to Milan to undertake his artistic studies and during the COVID years
he will become an assistant at the CESURA studio.
after two years as an assistant at the collective he began to propose his works and a few
months after obtaining his degree he opened two exhibitions in the Aosta valley.
Alessandro has usually developed his work around themes concerning the human being,
where the fantastic and the absurd are characteristics that are often found in his work.
Today he lives and works in Milan as a photojournalist, publishing in national newspapers
such as 'Corriere della Sera', 'Repubblica', 'Avvenire', 'Libero' and many others.

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