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audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - The Syrian war has created the largest refugee crisis in a generation, yet the world has not provided for these people, and many Syrians, mostly children, still need the basics: shelter, education, food, and security. David Gross wants to raise awareness of the Syrian refugee crisis and so he visited four Syrian schools where he photographed hundreds of revealing portraits of Syrian children. His team included, an art therapist, an art educator, a social worker, and a consultant and they didn't only make portraits. The team organized art classes and art therapy sessions for the students. They wanted to reach past the immediately visible, the 'outside,' revealing the deeper impact that the Syrian civil war has had on these children. 'I realized drawing was a way to show the one thing that photographers can only imply: the psychology of our subjects,' says Gross. To learn more about David Gross's project, 'Inside-Outside' visit the website or download the free App.
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Dec. 17, 2013 - Reyhanli, Turkey - GHAIDAA, 15, from Aleppo, Syria, is a syrian refugee student at the Free Syria School.
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Draw your impression of life before, during and after the war. Drawing by Syrian boy, age 10. A plane drops bombs on our house.
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Jan. 16, 2014 - Kahramanmaras, Turkey - MOHAMMAD, 10, from Idlib, Syria, is a Syrian refugee student at a the Torches of Freedom Syrian School.
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Dealing with loss. Drawing by Syrian girl, age 13. Black clouds. A mother crying for her son, baby, and sister. The girl lost 3 family members.
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Jan. 8, 2014 - Gaziantep, Turkey - Syrian refugee girl (name withheld) at a the Friendship Syrian School.
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''Bad things in two colors.''' .Drawing by an 11-year-old girl at the Torches Of Freedom School.
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Dec. 17, 2013 - Reyhanli, Turkey - SHAM, age 16, from Homs, a Syrian refugee girl from the Free Syria School.
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Draw the future you hope for. Drawing by a student at the Free Syria School. A family in the snow.
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Dec. 15, 2013 - Reyhanli, Turkey - ABDULLAH, age 18, from Hama, Syria, is a Syrian refugee student at a the Free Syria School.
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Scary bad things in two colors. Drawing by an 11-year-old boy at the Torches Of Freedom School.
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Dec. 15, 2013 - Reyhanli, Turkey - SAFIYA, 15, from Idlib,Syria, is a Syrian refugee student at a the Free Syria school.
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Jan. 19, 2014 - Hatay - A drawing of ''bad things'' that are colored over with good things in order to give them life. Drawing by a student at the Free Syria School.
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David I. Gross

DAVID I. GROSS, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S. Gross has reported on war and human rights-related stories since 1999 and his reportage is represented worldwide by ZUMA. Gross has been working on stories around the identification of the missing from war and disaster for four years, beginning with an in-depth study of the UN police's missing persons unit in Kosovo. (Credit Image: © David I. Gross/ZUMA):543



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