Shaftsbury Photographer's Book Captures Monuments Of Pre-War Syria

Jan. 22, 2019
Shaftsbury Photographer's Book Captures Monuments Of Pre-War Syria
Abdel rizaq Bakir, a rope maker in the Aleppo suq. Bubriski and Al-Azm say the city's medieval suq markets have now been almost totally destroyed. © Kevin Bubriski

In an interview with Vermont Public Radio, photographer Kevin Bubriski discusses his new book of photographs, “Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War,” which features 100 images taken before the war. His black-and-white photos capture places and people of Syria before the country was engulfed in civil war in 2011. Supported by an HRLI grant to Documentary Educational Resources.


Syria—and its nearly decade-long civil war—has been the subject of countless news stories and foreign policy debates. Syrians fleeing violence from war and the Islamic State weigh heavily in the international conversation about refugees and migration.

In 2003, Shaftsbury photographer Kevin Bubriski started documenting what would become some of the final images of pre-war Syria. His stark black-and-white pictures of the architecture, places and people of Syria are collected in a new book called Legacy In Stone: Syria Before War.

Listen to the Interview


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