Alessio Romenzi

Lebanon, Bekaa Valley. Mahmoud Mira, 40, is a former sculptor from Aleppo.
Mahmoud Mira’s dearest object is the Ipad that contains his former life’s story telling, the man he used to be is depicted in those photographs that always he brings with him. Smiling pictures of his wife Ghad (36), their children playing in the beautiful garden near their house in Aleppo. Images of a comfortable and lovely life. Everything was destroyed during shelling in Aleppo seven months ago. Mahmoud, 40, is a scultptor. Thanks to his profession he used to frequently travel abroad; to Yemen, Germany, Greece, Jordan. Now he and his wife along with three children Abdelaziz (11), Ayham (9) and Judy (6) are living in a few square meters room in the skeleton of a building site, on the outskirts of Zahle. (Lebanon. Bekaa Valley). Since their arrival in Lebanon, Mahmoud has managed to find occasional jobs as a carpenter in the construction sites nearby. This is a totally provisional and precarius job that does not give him a stable income to support his family. Alessio Romenzi