Michael Pope of electronic music band Le Galaxie peforms in Dublin’s Academy Theater, Ireland. © Stephen Gerard Kelly
“Our patient Aya, who is as old as the Syrian Crisis, has known no life other than that of a refugee in Lebanon. She lives with her family of eight in al-Qaa, a town on the northeastern Lebanese-Syrian border. While playing in the farm her family lives on, she severely injured her hand in one of the grass-cutting machines." #onassignment #syriacrisis #syrianchildren © Stephen Gerard Kelly, ICRC
Calvin James participates in an annual African American motorcycle rally, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. © Stephen Gerard Kelly
This is part of a long term project recently screened at the prestigious photography festival Rencontres des Arles. Previously traveling in horse drawn carriages, Irish Travellers are commercial nomads engaged in metalworking, horse-trading and construction. Legal changes governing access to public lands and the establishment of halting sites, semi-permanent locations with services, has had far reaching ramifications on their traditions.
"I've spent all my my life here," says Abud (44), a member of Hezbollah, in his home in Sabra. "Our problems stem from politics. corruption and meddling of international agendas from the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran. We are the puppets in their theatre. I want to get out of here. I want better opportunities for my children."
