Rand Alzouby

I’m Rand Alzouby. I’m sixteen years old and I love photography because it documents every beautiful moment in our lives and what is happening in the places we are in.

The Streets of the Camp

Photo and text by Rand Alzouby

SIts narrow streets are filled with potholes. Its forgotten walls carry nothing but pictures and slogans, and its houses are randomly connected through electricity wires and tangled water pipes which obscure the sky and its sun. All of these constitute a first picture of the deprivation experienced by the camps.

Burj El Barajneh camp, in Beirut, is considered a microcosm of the twelve Palestinian camps in Lebanon. It suffers from many problems related to worn-out sewage networks, cracked houses, and random electricity lines, which have caused the death of quite a few camp residents.

Despite all this, life in the camp is beautiful and its people are accustomed to the streets and life of the camp.