One Day Changes Gallery

Here are all the photographs used throughout the exhibition. Hover over them to reveal their captions.

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled Concrete Love. It shows a smiley face painted onto a piece of concrete in Freedom Park. The paint runs slightly down the eyes, almost looking like tears. Two hands are clasped, resting on the top of the concrete. The concrete is the lightest part of the image.

Concrete Love (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

Concrete Love (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled Suicide Attack. It shows the aftermath of a suicide track bomb that hit multiple Kurdish security buildings in Qamishli in Syria, injuring more than 100 people and killing 40. The image shows buildings standing in the background with the foreground showing lots of people on the ground as well as some vehicles. The picture is quite zoomed out so individual people are not identifiable and the scale of the buildings to the people can be seen.

Suicide Attack (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

Suicide Attack (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled Family Life. It shows a woman and young boy on the right hand side of the photograph, smiling at the camera lens. There is a light, patterned tent that is opened so that we can see these people.

Family Life (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

Family Life (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled Mother. It shows the backs of a man’s calves where on the right hand side there is a tattoo of his mother’s face. The background is of the floor which is a patterned grey with the shadow of a happy face. The man’s sandaled feet are stood over where the nose and eyes of the face on the floor would be. Next to the left leg is an arrow pointing diagonally North-West.

Mother (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

Mother (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled The Kiss. It shows a man on the left who is kissing the side of a woman’s head. He has his left hand on her head as he does this, so that you can see he is wearing a ring on his ring finger, and a watch on his wrist. He is looking to the right of the image, over her head whereas she is looking directly at the camera lens. She is faintly smiling and has both a nose ring and a head covering on.

The Kiss (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

The Kiss (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled Fly Away. The foreground of the image shows some people stood in a group with a background of military vehicles and temporary shelters. The sky has no visible clouds but is filled with a large flock of birds which are specks in the zoomed out image.

Fly Away (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

Fly Away (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled All were Lost. It shows a woman wearing a head covering, holding a handkerchief up to her mouth with a grieved expression on her face. In her left hand she is holding up a frame in front of the camera lens showing photographs of her eleven family members who were all killed in the chemical attack. Other people can be seen in the background although they are partially hidden by her and the frame.

All were Lost (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

All were Lost (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled Death of the Fish. There is a strong contrast between the darkness of the river bank where the dead fish is lying, and the lightness of the river. The fish is in the foreground and takes up quite a lot of space in the image. In the background, the only other living thing is grass.

Death of a Fish (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

Death of a Fish (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled Victory. This is a very light image, the background is a white tent. From inside the tent, two groups of two children are peeking out of the tent and smiling at the camera. They have two fingers up in the victory symbol.

Victory (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

Victory (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled Meaning of Life. It shows three young children at a water pump. The two taller children are both holding a water cannister each. No other structures can be seen in the photograph, showing how these pumps can be far away from some camps, meaning the children have to carry these heavy containers on their walks back.

Meaning of Life (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

Meaning of Life (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled Back to School. It shows a classroom which is inside a large tent and has a temporary floor. There is light coming in from an opening in the tent at the back of the classroom. It is filled with desks, all of which are empty apart from one in the middle of the back row where there is a child with their head on their arms on the desk. There are no other people in the image.

Back to School (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

Back to School (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled The Water Sellers. It shows a young man and a boy sat on stools in front of a building that has two doors. The boy on the right hand side is looking directly at the camera whilst the young man is looking towards the boy. They are both wearing shorts and t-shirts. Between them there is a table where they are selling their water as well as two baskets on the floor. There is graffiti on the building in the background. To the right hand side of the image is a person pushing a pushchair with a small child in it who is also looking at the camera.

The Water Sellers (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

The Water Sellers (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled Search for Safety. In the foreground of the image are three children who are peering out from behind some panelling. In the background are some other children who cannot be seen very clearly because of the light levels. The child on the right is obscured quite a lot by the panelling whereas the child in the middle is looking out, away from the camera, and the child on the left is looking directly at the camera. All three have worried expressions on their faces.

Search for Safety (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

Search for Safety (Photo Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Ako Ismail is titled A Different Daily Life. It shows a girl in the centre of the foreground who is smiling at the camera. Behind her is a line with clothes hung up on it and in the left hand side of the image is a tent. Further away in the image are other tents and the figures of other people.

A Different Daily Life (Image Credit: Ako Ismail)

A Different Daily Life (Image Credit: Ako Ismail)

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled Taped. It is overall a very dark image. It shows the corner of a room where two walls of windows meet. All of these windows are taped with crosses to protect them in case of explosions. The city outside the window cannot be seen very clearly other than a bird in one of the top rows towards the left.

Taped (Image Credit: Shaho Omar)

Taped (Image Credit: Shaho Omar)

This black and white photograph taken by Shaho Omar is titled Reflections. It shows two young girls who are smiling directly at the camera. They are stood behind a window and are framed by the frames of the window.

Reflections (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

Reflections (Photo Credit: Shaho Omar)

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