In Arabic, Damascus is also known as the ‘City of Jasmine’ – here, layers of millennia-old cultures and religions overlap and merge with the present.
Damaskus, 2022, © Frizzi Krella
Ambivalences
Frizzi Krella shows this turbulent city in all its ambivalence through black-and-white and colour photographs. She focuses her gaze on everyday life scarred by war and treats the city and its inhabitants with empathy and tenderness. Krella's photographs create a poetry of immediacy that reveals a unique snapshot of Damascus shortly before the fall of the Assad regime: a ladder in a courtyard that seems to grow into the sky, a conversation in the market between open sacks of spices, a satellite dish on the roof.
Damaskus, 2022, © Frizzi Krella
Contrasts
The supposed contrasts between the present and history merge in Krella's photographs to form a sensual unity that does not conceal the ugly and the abysmal, but never loses sight of human dignity.
Frizzi Krella, Damaskus, mtext by Adonis Stefan Weidner, 112 pages, 18,5 × 25,0 cm, Hardcover, design: Anja Matzker Kommunikations- und Grafikdesign, Kerber Verlag, Berlin 2025.
Damaskus, 2023, © Frizzi Krella
Damaskus, 2022, © Frizzi Krella
