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Amira Al-Sharif

A widow and her daughters pose with the portrait of the husband and father who died during a pro-democracy protest. “The war, just like the [2011 Yemeni] revolution, has shattered many hearts,” says photographer Al-Sharif.

A fisherman prepares his boat in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah.

A woman sells plastic bottles of gasoline— unaffordable and inaccessible to millions across Yemen — in the city of Aden.

Hundreds of fathers, brothers, and sons gather for Friday prayers in the the Yemeni capital of Sana’a.

Parents and their children deliver symbolic offerings of pocket change to a post office in Sana’a, protesting the accelerated collapse of northern Yemen’s economy after the government moved the Central Bank from Sana’a to the southern port city of Aden.

Barbed wire cuts across a picturesque vista of Yemen's port city of Aden. After the capital Sana’a fell to the Houthis in September 2014, Aden became the de facto seat of Yemen’s Saudi- and Emirati-backed government.

Hundreds of impoverished Yemenis who live in in Buraiqeh district, west of Aden, must endure toxic fumes from a landfill controlled by the Saudi coalition.

A young boy plays with a pigeon in Zohra district, northwest of the northern Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. “This child only knows life under war,” says photographer Amira Al-Sharif.

A Yemeni soldier with an Emirati-backed separatist militia remembers the 2015 attack on the southern port city of Aden. More than 60,000 people—both combatants and civilians—have been killed in the war in Yemen while some 85,000 children under the age of five have died from extreme hunger or disease.

A woman calms a horse against the backdrop of the Red Sea in Hodeidah.