Aleppo
Aleppo, 2009, charcoal and watercolour on chalk and ink Syria’s second city, Aleppo (Halab) vies with Damascus as the oldest continually-inhabited city in the world – as long as 8000 years. It’s old...
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Serjilla, 2008, oil pastel on chalk & ink In the Syrian countryside south of Aleppo lie the Dead Cities, a series of ancient ghost towns between the Aleppo-Hama highway in the east and the Orontes...
View ArticleSketching, photography and the tourist gaze
Sketch of buildings at Freeland, Oxfordshire, 2004 ‘Today everything exists to end in a photograph’ (Susan Sontag) Writing in 1979, Sontag could never have anticipated the explosion of photography that...
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