General News, Honorable mention
Samer Mohdad
Agence Vu
Agence Vu
01 January, 1990
A boy refuses to have a shower in a Lebanese camp for the education and military training of 5 to 17-year-old destitute children.
The Syrian Social Nationalist Party takes charge of the children and submits them to tough discipline in mountain camps near the Syrian border. There is never any doubt about who has the last word; the children's fate is in the trainer's hands.
Samer Mohdad
Pioneer photographer, initiator of the Arab Images concept, expert in creative media and visual communication, Samer Mohdad was born in Bzebdine, Lebanon, in 1964. Following his...
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