Syria's gallery of grief: the holes war rips in families

In his portraits of Syrian refugees, photographer Dario Mitidieri highlights a sombre reality - those who are absent because of war.

More than anything, war is about families and the effect on them, says Mitidieri.

He was commissioned to depict the war in Syria and wanted to show the impact of it on individual families.

“These are families like yours and mine,” says Mitidieri, 56, a father of four.

He invited families at a refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon to pose for him.

“There’s a mother and a father, and there are children. Only for these families – because of war – some of these people are missing.”

- More pictures and stories of refugee families online at cafod.org.uk/lostfamilyportraits