Visual Narratives and Lens of the Youth Collective: Framing the Revolution and its Afterlives
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This essay posits that the Lens of the Youth [collective] (‘adsat al-shābb, hereafter LYC) Facebook sites mark a turn in the visual language coming out of Syria in the aftermath of the uprisings there in 2011. Reacting to the urgency to create and disseminate, i.e. to produce culture from the frontlines, LYC’s visual language was not the language of war photography, but rather a vernacular expression of visual communication. As much as this essay is an attempt to read the images connectively, as chapters of a long narrative in a protracted war, it also argues that these images both contributed initially and continue to contribute to the active work of community-making that is one of the outcomes of the revolution.
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