Hands of Refusal 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 angered them most. Over the next decade, the project moved across borders and communities, gathering hundreds of portraits in which anger became testimony and quiet resistance. By 2025, it had grown into a book shaped by the voices and wounds of others. Each hand became a personal outcry and a shared gesture, turning anger into a language of refusal, a reminder that anger is not chaos but clarity, not destruction but a demand for change.

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Genre, Street Portrait

Captured | 2014-2025

Locations | Kurdistan, China, UK, Thailand​