Humans of Syria

Dutch photographer Marieke van der Velden stood with Abou Badwi outside his makeshift tent in a refugee camp south of Beirut, Lebanon. There, as ominous clouds rolled overhead and a dance of dust darted past, Badwi explained the daily surrealism that is his life in a refugee camp. (Marieke van der Velden) Before his Syrian neighborhood collapsed, before he found himself crossing the border out of his homeland and fleeing for whatever semblance of safety he could find, Badwi was a well-respected ...