The colours Iraq lost

every old photo of iraq i find is faded brown and grey, and this one is about losing your culture, alot of people here forgot theirs trying to be modern and some are still proud and remember, its like a lost art. so i went looking for what we lost, the old wooden houses on the tigris, the marshes that got dried up in the 90s, the copper market in baghdad with only a few coppersmiths left. prokudin-gorsky was taking colour photos around 1905 to 1915 in samarkand and the caucasus (library of congress, no known restrictions) but he never came to iraq. so i made a recraft style out of his photos and used it to take the pictures he never got to take. none of these are real photos, i wish they were

Part 3/3 of one series, "three old ways of seeing Iraq: stone, paint, light". The other parts: Nineveh draws Baghdad (stone) and Abu Zayd (paint). Instagram: @lostcolours.iq

Turning the colors I notice around Lisbon into a series of posters, each inspired by a different photograph.

01 [Blue in Detail] started with the blue Portuguese tiles, exploring their intricate patterns, ceramic tones, and small details.

02 [Color on Repeat] explored the rhythm of blue and yellow tiles, using repetition as the starting point for the design.

I sampled colors from my photographs and used Canva Craft to explore layouts, typography, and graphic elements. Then I refined the designs by hand, adjusting the colors, spacing, and text.