Sarka Vancurova
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Portraits from my photo reportages for magazines and newspapers.
This narrow selection represents portraits that I cherich the most from all my photojurnalistic work. They are the essential part of my visual stories.
As a portrait photographer, I always think portraits  tell us
us the biggest part from the whole photo essay and carry the mystery under
which we can imagine our own story.

Sabina Reyes from Belemempira, Honduras and her son waiting in line in front of COMAR,  office for refugee status in   Mexico City.  She was escaping the gang threats and kidnappings of her son in Honduras.  
From the report about  Title 42.
Sylvia with her husband Ricardo wiping the nose of their son in front of COMAR, refugee office. They are
from Venezuela, but escaping one persecution in Colombia with the intention to get to the US.  
They found themselves blocked in Mexico as a result of an expansion of sanitary immigration policies,
Title 42 , CDMX 2022.
Brazilian father with his daughter on the road to the USA,  photographed in Mexico City. ( Reportage Title 42 ,
for Pieuvre.ca).
Ana , John and their three kids from Maracibo in Venezuela, on the road to the US. ( from the report Title 42)
Mother of Tayde Regina , who died on  8.27. 2018 of a brain tumour, comes every year on 1st November,
the  Day of the Dead  Angels" to sleep by her daughter's grave. Panthéon Saint Miguel, Oaxaca, 2022.
( from the report  for LaPresse.ca)
Portrait of Afghan  family. Fatima takes care of her four daughters and son alone.  She works day and night
as a cleannglady so that her daughters can study and don’t have to work in the streets of  Malawi Square, Tehran, Iran, 20215,  From the reportage about Street children in Tehran.
Printed in the school newspaper of Master programme St.Joost Art Academy, Breda, The Netherlands.
Hazem (10) works at this father’s shop instead of school. He really would prefer to be in school, but lack of money
and employees push the family to  give the job to their own children.  
Hay el Sallom,  Beirut, Lebanon.
Syrian boy in his bed in the Zahlé refugee camp in Bekka Valley, Lebanon. From the reportage Hope of return,
for Triumphant Mercy, NGO

Sausan and her brother Khalin in their tent settlement in Central Bekka, Lebanon.
Zahra, Syrian girl from Zahlé refugee camp with her brothers,  from the report ‘”The Hope of return”.

Despite their life in Lebanon, family Al- Issa try to keep up their culture, Syrian food and their habits. Beirut,20218
Rawan, girl from Syria helping her nephew to breath. They live in a dusty basement  without windows in  
Mazzra, one of the suburbs of Beirut.
Kusei, mentally handicapped blind boy in the shelter of Beirut. Originally from Raqqa, Syria.
Zebeny from Ethiopia works as a domestic worker in one of the middle class  Lebanese family in Beirut.
Zebeny with  two children that she takes care of. Beirut. Lebanon.
From the  tiresless reportages and documentation about undocumented African refugees
that came to seek a better life in France. One of the refugees in the manifestation is showing me his
identification card. Paris, 2015.
Mohammad,  from South Sudan,  in the squated refugee shelter in Paris.
Fatima and Isaac from Tunesia came to Beirut to find more opportunities, but in between they got caught up
living  temporalily in a moldy shelter of former Gaza Hospital,  funded by Palestinian Leberation Organisation.
From the article Gaza  building: Last refuge for independent French media, together with journalist
Emmanuel Haddad.
Syrian family  from Homs, in the Gaza hospital shelter, From the article Gaza  building: Last refuge for
independent French media, together with journalist Emmanuel Haddad. Shatila refugee camp, Beirut.
Malek lives with his mom in the basement of Gaza hospital, in one of the most terriefying  conditions of
the humid, half- delapitated building. HIs father died before he became 2 years old,and  before his parents
could register him in the official Lebanese records to obtain Lebanese nationality.
He is nowstateless in Lebanon, working in the restaurant in Beirut.
Malek’s mom  in  her bed, in the basement of Gaza building. She lost her leg to diabetes,
so her son is taking care of her from his misery barman salary.
Samer, Palestinian refugee boy in the local restaurant ,where his
family work , of Aida refugee camp, Betlehem, Palestine.
Hannah and her daughter in their home in Bethlehem, Palestine, where they live their whole life.
She shares the cruel reality of being a mother to a boy in Paletininan occupied territory. Two of her
sons have been in and out of Israeli prison for just their existence.
Her oldest son has been there now for a year, but his release is not in sight.  
Ahmad Bashir (13), Sanna, Yemen. When he was 4 years old, he had an accident in the street. It was really
hot that day and people were pouring water on their heads, but Ahmad poured the bottle of acid that was lying
on the street on himself,  thinking it was a water.
Till now he underwent 13 surgeries in Yemen, 2 surgeries in Egypt. His eye got badly damaged, and had to
be removed. He is in the MSF Al-Mowasah hospital in Amman, Jordan ,waiting for his eye to be replaced by artificial one. He came to Al-Mowasah hospital already in 2017 and stayed for a year.
Asiel Abdo (13) was wounded during the clashes in 2018 between Houthi rebels and Saudi led coalition in Ibb,Yemen.  He was playing outside while the bullet hit his right arm. He lost a big part of the bone and now
after being transferred to Amman, he expects to be operated in MSF Al-Mowasah reconstructive hospital,
only his nutritional case doesn’t allow the operation yet.
Nahla Hussein Mohamad (45)
Nahla was shopping in the market when suicide bombing took place near the market in July 2016 in Baghdad, Iraq. The force of the bombing pushed her aside. She ended on her thigh and broke the bone inside.
Since her accident, she already went through four operations. Three of the surgeries in Iraq, one in Jordan.
In Iraq they put her internal platinum in her thigh that didn’t improve much her state.      
In Jordan, MSF Al-Mowasah reconstructive surgery hospital, they removed it again and instead tried to extend
the bone.  Now she is still in the first phase of the surgeries, awaiting more operations and going through
physiotherapy sessions with still not a bright outcome to her condition.
Kahlan Naji (14) from Hajjah in Yemen. He was injured when he was two years old due to gas leak in the
house that caused the severe burns on more than a half part of his body. He survived, but his brother died in
the same accident.     He underwent 13 surgeries in Yemen.  After the last one the doctors told his parents
that it was the maximum that they could do for him. His parents then started to seek help outside the
country. Now, he is in the Al-Mowasah reconstructive hospital in Jordan for the third time to go on with the reconstructive burn surgery to improve his scars  and regain a range of the motion in his body.  
Mohamad Hizam (33)  (on the right side) used to work as an electrician in one of the tank stations in Amran,
in Yemen. One day, during the winter of 2018, the airstrike by the Arab coalition backing the Yemeni army hit
the tank station and Mohamad got badly burned by the explosion. His body is now from 65% covered of burns.
He was firstly treated in the hospital in Yemen, where he was not given the treatment that was needed.
Two months ago, he was admitted to MSF Al- Mowasah hospital in Amman to further undergo
reconstructive surgeries to recover his wounds.
Wounded men waiting to be checked into Al-Mowasah hospital in Amman, Jordan.
Young mother in  Amann, Jordan.
Portrait of the children working in sorting out the metal. in  Amman, Jordan.
From the reportage about children living in the slums of  Santo Domingo, DR.
From the reportage about children living in the slums of  Santo Domingo, DR.
Refugge woman during the manifetation for support of undocumented immigrants.  Montreal, Quebec
Native surviver of residential schools during the Native residential schools commemoration day . Montreal, Quebec.
Mustafa’s wife hugs her husband who is in the intensive care unit , from a reportage for La Presse.ca,
about Covid -19  cases, Montreal.
Prortrait  of Sharif Sharaf, an Afghan journalist who fled the Taliban regime, and his son, in their
recent appartment in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.reportage to be found on  
https://pivot.quebec/2022/07/26/refugies-afghans-donner-un-visage-aux-chiffres-1/
The daughter of Sharif Sharaf serving the snacks, but doesn’t like to be photographed facing the camera.
During the interview for the piece in Pivot.Quebec