16/03/2025
Postcards from Kampala:
The project is the result of a workshop presented in cooperation with the and amazing German photographer in Kampala, with the participation of 12 Sudanese photographers in Uganda who shared their stories about the war and its challenges and the experience of refugees and living in a new society.
After the war started in Sudan, I was in Khartoum El-Taif at the time. I did not expect the war to continue for a long time, so I was alone for a while due to the presence of my small family in Omdurman, being in the war zone was a big risk, but leaving your home with all its memories is much more difficult, so I preferred to get out because saving my life preserves the lives of others.
Father living in war zones thinks about the safety of his
children, but when you find safety, you think about a better
future for them.
I was not only lucky when I survived certain death several
times, but when I lived to share the diary of my child as he grew
moment by moment, making his way towards the future
steadily, I did not have this opportunity before due to the
constant preoccupation with work and sometimes geography,
days that are a mixture between the bitterness of memories of
what I lost in the war and the hope for the future of my son,
whom I see in front of me, learning eagerly, as if he wants to
learn. What I lost in the war and hope for the future of my son,
who I see in front of me eagerly learning as if he wants to tell
me to stop worrying, father, we lost the past, but we have the
present and the whole future, I have never felt far from my
home because I see in my son the homeland that is rebuilding
itself amidst the rubble again.