Photograph by Ed Kashi

Image Title: Syria, 1992

Paper Dimensions (H x W): 18 x 24

Image Dimensions (H x W): 13.63 x 20

Medium: Archival Inkjet Print

Year Created: 1992

Image Description: Boy riding his bike along the Euphrates River in the town of Dawr Al Zar in Syria. This is part of a National Geographic project focused on the critical importance of water in the Middle East.

Photographer's Bio: Ed Kashi is an award-winning photojournalist who uses photography, filmmaking and social media to explore political and social issues. He has documented and photographed topics as diverse as the impact of oil in Nigeria, the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, the lives of Jewish settlers in the West Bank, climate change, the plight of Syrian refugees, the global epidemic of chronic kidney disease among agricultural workers and the impact of an aging society through his project "Aging in America." His images have been published and exhibited worldwide; he has worked on assignments with organizations and publications such as National Geographic, Open Society Foundations, The New Yorker, MSNBC, Fortune, Human Rights Watch, International Medical Corps, NBC.com, The New York Times, Oxfam and TIME.

www.edkashi.com/