Iraqi Photographers Launch Ambitious Group Project About Millions Displaced by War
By Conor Risch
© Hawre Khalid / Metrography. January 27, 2015, Kirkuk, Iraq: Abdullah Hazbar from outside his tent. Abdullah was wounded by Iraqi war planes’ bombing when he left his village with his family.
Metrography, an agency founded in 2009 to represent and train Iraqi photojournalists, yesterday launched a website for an ambitious group project that emphasizes the human cost of the ongoing war in Iraq and the greater Middle East, which has entered a new phase since the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014. “Map of Displacement” tells the stories of 12 families and individuals who are among …read more
Via: PDN Pulse
