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As violence soars, a photographic look inside the Zaatari camp in Jordan

Lauren Wolfe, director of WMC’s Women Under Siege, visited the camp in May and captured photographs of everyday life. Her images show that for the Syrians living together in this vast camp, life goes on as usual—families cook dinner, children play in the streets, vendors sell their wares at makeshift shops. On display is everything from desolate communal kitchens in concrete bunkers to the children selling everything from cotton candy to lollipops for 10 hours a day. What you can’t necessarily see is the searing heat, the smell of the toilets, and the uncertainty of thousands of people not knowing when their time in limbo will end.

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