Hands of Refusal is a photographic series that began in 2014 in the refugee camps of Iraqi Kurdistan and Syria, where survivors of ISIS brutality raised a hand to the camera and named what they were most angry about. Over the following decade, the project grew across borders and communities, gathering hundreds of portraits in which anger becomes testimony, resistance, and a quiet form of truth.

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By 2025, the work had evolved into a book shaped entirely by the voices and wounds of others. Each raised hand stands as both a personal outcry and a universal gesture, transforming anger into a shared language of refusal. Hands of Refusal preserves these moments as a collective archive, reminding us that anger is not chaos but clarity, not destruction but a demand for change.