Home away from home: Refugee life in Lebanon

Palestinian refugee camps have existed for 70 years in Lebanon since 1948 and conditions have gotten worse with chronic underfunding and overcrowding. The situation has reached a crisis point with the influx of over 1 million Syrian refugees since 2011. Then Trump won the election, slashed the budget of UNRWA, the UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees, by half in January 2018, and then decided to eliminate the entire US funding altogether in August 2018. I shot these portraits in August 2018. I am interested in the everyday life of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in and outside of camps in Lebanon - children playing and fighting, youth hanging out in game parlours, people shopping for groceries and buying water, old folks living alone, and celebrating Eid holidays - despite the frequent power cuts, water crisis, open sewage, and massive poverty.