The 11 black-and-white portraits that were part of the “Dawn of Recovery” exhibition Nov. 7-9 at Gallery Ras Aid in Amman, Jordan, showed the tragic faces of war and violence: burned skin and lips, missing fingers and hands, and disfigured faces. Next to each portrait, a colored photo showed the same person after reconstructive surgery — still scarred, but showing at least a glimmer of hope and joy.
“[The surgeries] have given them the opportunity to return to a life that is almost normal,” Faris al-Jawad, the communications manager at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF) hospital in Amman, who organized the exhibition, told Al-Monitor.