Portraits from war: the Kurdish fighters taking on ISIS
“I took another photograph of Berivan with one of her fellow female fighters, Silava. While the pair looked stoically into my camera as I took shots, they suddenly broke out laughing together. They then insisted that if I was going to publish one of the images, then I should use the laughing one, as it is ‘more realistic, because we always laugh when we fight on the frontlines.’”
All photos are taken from the book We Came From Fire, by Canadian photographer Joey L.
[who are these women? | read more | joey’s website | buy the book]
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