!["I am 20 years old, I used to be a hairdresser in Homs. When the revolution began, I joined the Free Syrian Army. A mortar shell fell very near me, I lost a leg... Because of the wounds, my other leg and my right arm have been amputated."](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_001.jpg)
"I am 20 years old, I used to be a hairdresser in Homs. When the revolution began, I joined the Free Syrian Army. A mortar shell fell very near me, I lost a leg... Because of the wounds, my other leg and my right arm have been amputated."
![A mother and her daughter. Many refugees had no place in camps, they are on their own, without legal status.](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_002.jpg)
A mother and her daughter. Many refugees had no place in camps, they are on their own, without legal status.
!["I am 22 years old, I studied medicine. I participated in demonstrations, I was beaten and imprisoned, I fought for the Free Syrian Army. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant wanted to recruit me to spy on my own village... I want to study social sciences abroad. I have no passport, I am going to travel illegally..."](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_004.jpg)
"I am 22 years old, I studied medicine. I participated in demonstrations, I was beaten and imprisoned, I fought for the Free Syrian Army. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant wanted to recruit me to spy on my own village... I want to study social sciences abroad. I have no passport, I am going to travel illegally..."
!["I used to be a candy maker and seller before the revolution. I come from Homs. 15 months ago, I was hurt, I took 7 bullets in my legs. As soon as I can, I will return to fight."](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_005.jpg)
"I used to be a candy maker and seller before the revolution. I come from Homs. 15 months ago, I was hurt, I took 7 bullets in my legs. As soon as I can, I will return to fight."
![General Abdullateef Al Joboree, founder of the first division of the Free Syrian Army. The general was killed early august 2014 when an air strike hit his headquarter near Idlib.](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_006.jpg)
General Abdullateef Al Joboree, founder of the first division of the Free Syrian Army. The general was killed early august 2014 when an air strike hit his headquarter near Idlib.
![A dead soldier on a video taken by a member of the Liwa Diraa Al Ahraar brigade (part of the Islamic Front).](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_007.jpg)
A dead soldier on a video taken by a member of the Liwa Diraa Al Ahraar brigade (part of the Islamic Front).
![Main street of Yayladagi. Offices of a far-right turkish political party with a flag of the "Grey Wolves", a nationalist organization. Yayladagi counting approximately 12000 inhabitants, half are Syrian refugees (split between two camps).](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_011.jpg)
Main street of Yayladagi. Offices of a far-right turkish political party with a flag of the "Grey Wolves", a nationalist organization. Yayladagi counting approximately 12000 inhabitants, half are Syrian refugees (split between two camps).
!["When I joined the Free Syrian Army at the beginning of the revolution, we were 40 in my brigade. 38 died, the 39th is now in a wheelchair. I could spend the night listing the men who died beside me and I would not have finished by morning. I am 19 years old, i will go back to fight tomorrow."](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_012.jpg)
"When I joined the Free Syrian Army at the beginning of the revolution, we were 40 in my brigade. 38 died, the 39th is now in a wheelchair. I could spend the night listing the men who died beside me and I would not have finished by morning. I am 19 years old, i will go back to fight tomorrow."
![Teachers lounge of a school for refugees, in Turkey. All of the team is Syrian. Books and teaching are in Arabic. Some Turkish classes are given.](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_013.jpg)
Teachers lounge of a school for refugees, in Turkey. All of the team is Syrian. Books and teaching are in Arabic. Some Turkish classes are given.
![A mother and her son, the father is an officer of the Free Syrian Army, the son is traumatized.
"Take my picture, I don't care about Bashar".](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_014.jpg)
A mother and her son, the father is an officer of the Free Syrian Army, the son is traumatized.
"Take my picture, I don't care about Bashar".
![A journalist is listening to an activist (both are Syrian) in the activist's apartment. Antakya, Turkey.](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_015.jpg)
A journalist is listening to an activist (both are Syrian) in the activist's apartment. Antakya, Turkey.
![Ahmed and his younger brother are Palestinian. Before the war, they were refugees in Latakia in Syria. Now, they are refugee in Killis, in Turkey, in a refugee camp attached to the border post.](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_016.jpg)
Ahmed and his younger brother are Palestinian. Before the war, they were refugees in Latakia in Syria. Now, they are refugee in Killis, in Turkey, in a refugee camp attached to the border post.
!["Bashar had the forests burnt to stop the rebels from hiding there. Regularly, we cross the border to replant trees and bushes."](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_017.jpg)
"Bashar had the forests burnt to stop the rebels from hiding there. Regularly, we cross the border to replant trees and bushes."
!["I was an elementary school teacher. We were in my car, five friends and I. Between two checkpoints, we rolled on a mine. Four were slightly hurt, one died. I left my left arm there, the doctors transplanted the skin of my back onto my burned legs."](https://jeremysaintpeyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/outside_syria_outside_camps_019.jpg)
"I was an elementary school teacher. We were in my car, five friends and I. Between two checkpoints, we rolled on a mine. Four were slightly hurt, one died. I left my left arm there, the doctors transplanted the skin of my back onto my burned legs."