Samar Abuelouf
The resulting portraits are sensitive and wrenching, taken with the empathy of someone who has endured similar pain, movingly showing the evacuated as they are, trying to adjust to life in a strange land without legs, arms, an eye, a family.
The New York Times asked Abu Elouf to make portraits of these survivors. It took time for her to learn portraiture, but the survivors opened up to her almost instantly.
Amputations. Disfiguration. Brain damage. Their injuries are life-changing.
They made it out for medical treatment in Qatar, where we photographed and interviewed them. They are alive — even if some are not sure they still want to be.
