An outdoor, high-angle shot captures a young adult male ascending concrete stairs in Qudsaiya, Syria, with a dense urban landscape sprawling across hills in the background

An outdoor, high-angle shot captures a young adult male ascending concrete stairs in Qudsaiya, Syria, with a dense urban landscape sprawling across hills in the background. The male, appearing late teens to early twenties, wears a light beige hooded sweatshirt over a white t-shirt, dark blue jeans, and white Nike sneakers. He carries a black backpack with a green accent on his right shoulder and is depicted mid-stride, looking towards the right. The immediate foreground features two parallel metal railings, one partially visible at the bottom and another at chest height relative to the subject, consisting of a dark top bar and light-colored vertical supports with white drip marks. Behind the subject and to his left, the hillside is dry, rocky, and covered with sparse, scrubby vegetation and substantial litter, including plastic debris and refuse. In the midground, the hillside continues, revealing a flat, red-roofed structure and a retaining wall. A small group of three to four individuals is discernible sitting on a higher part of the hillside near a fence, overlooking the urban sprawl. The background is dominated by numerous multi-story residential buildings, tightly packed and built into the undulating terrain. These structures exhibit varying shades of beige, brown, and white, with many rooftops featuring multiple satellite dishes and what appear to be solar water heaters. Further in the distance, more buildings and hills extend under a soft, possibly late-afternoon or early-morning, light. A mosque minaret is visible amongst the buildings in the far background.