Tammam Azzam joined the Syrian revolution early on. Six months into the uprising, he left Syria to Dubai in order to avoid mandatory military reserve duty. Shortly after, he learned that his studio was destroyed.

Azzam participated in the revolution through his art and painting. Before the revolution, his plastic art focused on a series of works depicting clothing hung on clotheslines. After the revolution and after he lost his studio, he moved to digital art. His first piece of digital art was the piece “Hung Syria,” which showed the map of Syria being hung on clotheslines.

Azzam was born in 1980 in the small village of Taarah in the southern province of Sweida, located on the border between Sweida and Daraa. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2001. Two years later, he received a degree in painting from the Academy of September at an art institute in Amman, Jordan.

In an interview conducted by Rayyan Majid for al-Aan website on Jan. 23, 2013, Azzam talked about his participation in the Syrian revolution, and said, "It was like a dream we lived with all our hopes up.”

Azzam organized an exhibition called “Syria” at Ayyam Gallery in Dubai between Nov. 10 and Dec. 31, 2012. It included about 50 pieces that were divided into three groups, "Syrian Intifada,” "Syrian Museum,” and "Places in the Syrian Revolution.” It was greatly successful and garnered much media attention.

The exhibition included a wide range of pictures that told the stories of people heavily involved in the revolution and the places they come from. Azzam started this project through a Facebook page entitled "Places in the Syrian Revolution.” The page included posts on people and places in various Syrian cities and towns, such as Aleppo, Maadamiat al-Sham, Maliha, Halfaya, Deir al-Asafir, Darayya, Salma, Bab al-Hawa, Sarmada and Salamiya. He named the exhibition "Syria.”

Not only has Azzam influenced revolutionary Syrian art, the revolution has also influenced his art and character. He believes that real Syrian plastic art will now be born, as opposed to the illusion of art that existed in the past.

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Tammam Azzam on Facebook.