A Japanese nurse has launched a series of photo exhibitions detailing the lives of ordinary people in Syria, hoping to expose a reality often hidden amid the daily footage of death and destruction emerging from the ongoing civil war.
"I want people to know more about their lives and not just the conflict there," Yoshiko Tamura said.
About 40 photos — including some showing Syrian children playing under trees and others with smiling boys sharing bread before the outbreak of the war — were displayed at her latest exhibition in the city of Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, in mid-September.