Shatila

Between Exile and Echo
Shatila Refugee Cap, Lebanon

This gallery is a brief selection from a much larger body of work. The remaining images and full narrative are reserved for my forthcoming book. For commissioning or licensing enquiries, please contact me directly.

Between Exile and Echo traces the layered lives of Palestinian refugees in Beirut’s Shatila camp - where exile, resistance, and memory are woven into every narrow alley.

Established after the 1948 Nakba, Shatila was meant to be temporary. Seventy-seven years later, it stands as a vertical maze of makeshift homes and inherited statelessness. Residents, including newer waves of Syrian refugees, are locked out of most professions and property rights, living under layers of bureaucracy, surveillance, and historical trauma.

This work, first captured in 2010 and revisited in 2024, chronicles life amid concrete and memory, where power cuts define the day, massacre anniversaries shape the past, and laughter survives through chipped teacups and footballs kicked between balconies. In Shatila, even hospitality is resistance. And humour, an act of endurance.