The 7th

At a prearranged moment, seven people, positioned across seven differently controlled territories in fragmented Syria, pointed their cameras upward and photographed the sky. The resulting images contain no landmarks, flags, checkpoints, or front lines. Although made from territories separated by competing political and military authorities, they share a single field of vision and an exact moment in time.

The coordinated act temporarily reconnects a country divided on the ground. By excluding the surface on which borders, armies, and ideologies are enforced, the photographs suspend the political distinctions that govern the lives below. Simultaneity becomes a form of assembly: seven people separated by territorial control perform the same gesture beneath the same sky.

Yet the sky is not presented as a simple refuge. Blue skies have long signified openness, freedom, and the reassuring continuity of day and night. Under conditions of armed conflict, however, the Syrian sky also became the domain of military aircraft and bombardment. What had once offered stability became a source of anticipation and possible danger.