Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets Ashrafi Maryam

Winner of the Lucie Photo Book Prize 2022 - Traditional CategoryMaryam Ashrafi is a social documentary photographer who believes in long term projects, she chooses to stay behind the front lines and observe the daily lives of combatants, which includes a lot of waiting around. Her work puts a face on a widely commented war which remains, from afar, perceived mainly by the West in terms of the number of refugees.Maryam documents the war in her own way, stressing its complexities and the actual building of a new social model based on equality where women occupy the same roles as men, which is remarkable in this area of the world. She is above all involved in documenting the everyday life on the Kurdish front.

This is why, over the years, she has returned to the same places, from Kobane to Tabqa, to show the unique power of the resilience of the population and