View of Aden from a hill where internally displaced people from the war in the mountains now live.Photograph: Mattia Velati
Almost 15 years ago, I was based in Damascus, Syria, as a freelance photographer and was lucky to get to know Yemen before the civil war that started at the end of 2014. I went there a few times, freely, from north to south, and fell in love with the country, which was little known from the outside.
Young people play pool in one of the main streets of Aden, with heavily damaged buildings behind, in 2021. Once a cosmopolitan and buzzing city, Aden now carries the signs of war everywherePhotograph: Mattia Velati
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