A Handful of Dust: Syrian Refugees in Turkey

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A Handful of Dust gives a glimpse into the approximately 3 million Syrians who have fled war in their home country and are living in Turkey. Nish has been following this story for several years, chronicling the circumstances of many whose lives have been upended and forced to flee. Most registered refugees don't live in camps, they live in Turkish towns and cities, alongside their new Turkish neighbors. While many refugees are very poor, and most find themselves in a precarious position, there are also working class, middle class, and wealthy Syrians who have made this exodus.

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Photographer Nish Nalbandian gives some of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees a face, a body, a voice. He invites us to identify, to feel compassion.,
- F-Stop Magazine, May 23, 2018
What makes his work different is its focus not simply on Syrian refugees as victims but on the diversity of their experiences.,
- Royal Photographic Society, July 2018
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Nish Nalbandian (http://www.nishnalbandian.com/about/) is an award-winning editorial and documentary photographer. His work from Aleppo has won numerous awards including First Prize for Conflict photography in the 2014 IPA, and the Gold Medal for War Photography in the 2014 PX3, as well as being selected for the New York Photo Festival and the IPA Best in Show exhibition around the world. His editorial work has appeared in such diverse outlets as the Human Rights Watch World Report, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Bag News, Telerama, Sputnik News, Zeke Magazine, Social Documentary Network, The Matador Network, The Summit Daily News, The Denver Post, National Geographic Traveler, Le Journal de Quebec, Le Journal de Montreal, The Oslo Times, The Stratford Beacon Herald, The Calgary Sun, The Toronto Sun, WorldMag, Kickstand Magazine, Review of Religions, New Scientist, and Vocativ.com. My archive is currently syndicated by Redux Pictures, and he contributes work to Redux, Polaris, Zuma, and Agence QMI. Greg Campbell is a bestselling nonfiction author and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He lives in Denver, Colo. Javier Manzano is an Pulitzer Prize-winning Mexican photographer known for his coverage of the country's drug wars, the War in Afghanistan and the Syrian civil war. Manzano's Pulitzer Prizewinning photograph was taken in October 2012 at the Karm-al Jabal district of Aleppo, Syria. It shows two Free Syrian Army soldiers guarding a sniper's nest as light streams through bullet holes in the wall behind them. Manzano is the first freelance photographer to be awarded the prize in 17 years, when Charles Porter IV and Stephanie Welsh won in 1996. Carmen Gentile has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and numerous bouts of unrest throughout the world. He was seriously injured while reporting in Afghanistan, an experience he chronicles in his book Kissed by the Taliban.