138 pages Edited by Pablo Allison Text(s) by Pablo Allison & Wassem Sas Designed by Alberto Natale 29,8 × 21 cm Language: English & Arabic Paperback Publisher: Undocumented Press 2026
At the entrance to Sednaya Prison, bands of green, white and black run across a wall, their edges streaked with paint. This detail from Aziz Asmar’s Free Syria sets the tone for Pablo Allison’s photobook, which follows what people write, paint and alter on the walls of Syria.
Photographed in 2025, the book moves from spray-painted messages on a police station in Damascus’s Yarmouk Camp to defaced portraits of Bashar al-Assad and a mosaic in Idlib. Allison keeps the surfaces in view: the cracks, the drips and the places where one mark interrupts another. Together, the photographs show how a wall can carry a public message and still bear the traces of what came before.
