Born in Damascus, Syria, Ammar Abd Rabbo lived in Libya and Lebanon before moving to France at the age of 12. He has been working as a press photographer since 1990, and has signed more than sixty covers for well-known magazines. Ammar Abd Rabbo is not a war photographer, but has covered several conflicts, such as Iraq (2003), Lebanon (2006), Libya (2011), as well as several trips to Syria, in 2013 and 2014, to show the daily life and resistance of the inhabitants, rather than the military life.