How Photographers Responded to the Arab Spring
How Photographers Responded to the Arab Spring Ten years after protests ignited across North Africa and the Middle East, how can artists give meaning to revolution? Samar Al Summary, Hrair Sarkissian traced the flight path of a migratory bird and found it looked exactly like a noose. He constructed a small model of the building where he spent most of his life in Damascus, then, over seven hours, bashed it to bits with a sledgehammer, pausing after every strike to take a picture. Maha Maamoun used literary fiction, cinematic history, and a cache of YouTube videos documenting the nighttime bre...