Arab family in their new home in Iraqi Kurdistan where they fled after ISIS took their home in southern Iraq (2016).

Arab family in their new home in Iraqi Kurdistan where they fled after ISIS took their home in southern Iraq (2016).

 Syrian woman holds her grandchild outside her home at a refugee camp in Azadi, Iraq ( 2017).

Syrian woman holds her grandchild outside her home at a refugee camp in Azadi, Iraq ( 2017).

 Four Kurdish men sit atop a car engine in Soran, Iraq (2016).

Four Kurdish men sit atop a car engine in Soran, Iraq (2016).

 PDK rally in support of Iraqi Kurdistan's 2017 Referendum vote (May 2016).

PDK rally in support of Iraqi Kurdistan's 2017 Referendum vote (May 2016).

 Three Yazidis ceremonially barefoot at Lalish, the valley temple in northern Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis people (2016).

Three Yazidis ceremonially barefoot at Lalish, the valley temple in northern Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis people (2016).

 Family await the arrival of the bride and groom to go to their wedding outside a hotel lobby in Soran, Iraq (2017).

Family await the arrival of the bride and groom to go to their wedding outside a hotel lobby in Soran, Iraq (2017).

 Women listen to the imam preach on the speaker during Friday prayers from the basement of a mosque in Soran, Iraq ( 2016).

Women listen to the imam preach on the speaker during Friday prayers from the basement of a mosque in Soran, Iraq ( 2016).

 Kurdish girls sit in the back of the women’s prayer room at their local mosque - Iraqi Kurdistan (2016)

Kurdish girls sit in the back of the women’s prayer room at their local mosque - Iraqi Kurdistan (2016)

 Soran City at dusk. (May 2016).

Soran City at dusk. (May 2016).

 Yazidi girl stands atop craggy blocks at a neighboring camp under construction for newly arrived Syrians in the area (2017).

Yazidi girl stands atop craggy blocks at a neighboring camp under construction for newly arrived Syrians in the area (2017).

 Yazidi children from Shingal at their camp in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (June 2017).

Yazidi children from Shingal at their camp in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (June 2017).

 Kudish mechanic inside his garage at dusk. Soran, Iraq (July 2017).

Kudish mechanic inside his garage at dusk. Soran, Iraq (July 2017).

 Men crowd around a desk to watch the mayor of the town sign documents commemorating the efforts of deceased Peshmerga fighters (2017).

Men crowd around a desk to watch the mayor of the town sign documents commemorating the efforts of deceased Peshmerga fighters (2017).

 Yazidi refugee children and their Kurdish school teacher outside at an abandoned soccer stadium near the Kurdistan camp they fled to from Sinjar in 2014.  ( 2016).

Yazidi refugee children and their Kurdish school teacher outside at an abandoned soccer stadium near the Kurdistan camp they fled to from Sinjar in 2014. ( 2016).

 Yazidi sisters and boy inside their cinderblock home at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2016).

Yazidi sisters and boy inside their cinderblock home at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2016).

 Boy from Mosul, Iraq waits in the car to return home as his parents pack up the shelter they lived in for three years after fleeing ISIS in 2014 (May 2017).

Boy from Mosul, Iraq waits in the car to return home as his parents pack up the shelter they lived in for three years after fleeing ISIS in 2014 (May 2017).

 Family grieves the loss of a family member at a Peshmerga memorial opening in Soran, Iraq (May 2017).

Family grieves the loss of a family member at a Peshmerga memorial opening in Soran, Iraq (May 2017).

 Two children climb from rooftop to rooftop in Soran, Iraq while Wedya, a Kurdish Muslim, prays evening prayers (May 2016).

Two children climb from rooftop to rooftop in Soran, Iraq while Wedya, a Kurdish Muslim, prays evening prayers (May 2016).

 Yazidi grandmother and grand-daughter stand in the doorway of their shelter at the camp they fled to when ISIS took their home in Sinjar two years prior (2016).

Yazidi grandmother and grand-daughter stand in the doorway of their shelter at the camp they fled to when ISIS took their home in Sinjar two years prior (2016).

 Nofa, a 24-year-old Yazidi woman who survived weeks living as an ISIS sex slave, sits outside her shelter at the 19,000 member Rwanga Community Camp in Qadiya, Iraq. Shot for Grazia Magazine UK (August 2017).

Nofa, a 24-year-old Yazidi woman who survived weeks living as an ISIS sex slave, sits outside her shelter at the 19,000 member Rwanga Community Camp in Qadiya, Iraq. Shot for Grazia Magazine UK (August 2017).

 Yazidi women prepare dessert plates at a refugee camp in Akoyan, Iraq (June 2017).

Yazidi women prepare dessert plates at a refugee camp in Akoyan, Iraq (June 2017).

 Yazidi boys from Sinjar play on a hospital construction zone near their camp in Soran, Iraq (September 2017).

Yazidi boys from Sinjar play on a hospital construction zone near their camp in Soran, Iraq (September 2017).

 Three Syrian Kurdish men inspect their new home in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (September 2017).

Three Syrian Kurdish men inspect their new home in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (September 2017).

 Syrians meet to talk logistics the day of arrival to their newly built camp in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).

Syrians meet to talk logistics the day of arrival to their newly built camp in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).

 Yazidi teenage girls host a party on the grounds at their camp in Northern Iraq. The families at the camp prohibit the girls, and not the boys, from attending the local school built for IDP in the area (2016).

Yazidi teenage girls host a party on the grounds at their camp in Northern Iraq. The families at the camp prohibit the girls, and not the boys, from attending the local school built for IDP in the area (2016).

 Men listen to the Mayor Krmanj Ezzat Dargali speak at a local town meeting in Soran, Iraq (2017).

Men listen to the Mayor Krmanj Ezzat Dargali speak at a local town meeting in Soran, Iraq (2017).

 Blonde Yazidi girl at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2017).

Blonde Yazidi girl at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2017).

 Yazidi boy decides to ride his bike down a hill after describing the sun’s fading light as beautiful (2017).

Yazidi boy decides to ride his bike down a hill after describing the sun’s fading light as beautiful (2017).

 Kurdish girl proud of her Kurdish dress minutes after the power went out and  playing in makeup with the other girls (2017).

Kurdish girl proud of her Kurdish dress minutes after the power went out and playing in makeup with the other girls (2017).

 Yazidi girl at a camp school for the displaced near Dahuk, Iraq (2017).

Yazidi girl at a camp school for the displaced near Dahuk, Iraq (2017).

 Naan bakery at night. Soran, Iraq (2017).

Naan bakery at night. Soran, Iraq (2017).

 Iraqi teenager with American swimming in skivvies in the Rwanduz gorge summer of 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan.

Iraqi teenager with American swimming in skivvies in the Rwanduz gorge summer of 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan.

 Yazidi girl listens to the women’s English class at the local community center in Soran, Iraq (2016).

Yazidi girl listens to the women’s English class at the local community center in Soran, Iraq (2016).

 Children from southern Iraq, Sinar, and Syria at the local school built for  children displaced within the region (2016).

Children from southern Iraq, Sinar, and Syria at the local school built for children displaced within the region (2016).

 Kudish woman with her son at a family wedding celebration at Gulan Park in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).

Kudish woman with her son at a family wedding celebration at Gulan Park in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).

 Teacher at the local school for the displaced holds plastic grapes as the children name the fruit or vegetable (2016).

Teacher at the local school for the displaced holds plastic grapes as the children name the fruit or vegetable (2016).

 Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).

Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).

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 Yazidi children play at the construction site of a neighboring camp being built for newly arriving Syrians to Soran, Iraq (2017).

Yazidi children play at the construction site of a neighboring camp being built for newly arriving Syrians to Soran, Iraq (2017).

 Yazidi, Kurdish, and Syrian children at the school for displaced in Soran, Iraq (2017).

Yazidi, Kurdish, and Syrian children at the school for displaced in Soran, Iraq (2017).

 Mosul family packing their belonging to return home while neighboring Yazidi friends watch (2017).

Mosul family packing their belonging to return home while neighboring Yazidi friends watch (2017).

 Rwanduz Mountains, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

Rwanduz Mountains, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

  Bare feet at Lalish holy temple of the Yazidi people in Dohuk, Iraq. All visitors and residents are required to take off their shoes at the entrance to the village (April 2016).

Bare feet at Lalish holy temple of the Yazidi people in Dohuk, Iraq. All visitors and residents are required to take off their shoes at the entrance to the village (April 2016).

 Soran city bazaar (2016).

Soran city bazaar (2016).

 Kurdish men dance at night at Gulan Park, Soran, Iraq (2016).

Kurdish men dance at night at Gulan Park, Soran, Iraq (2016).

 Man smies outside his home on the Rwandz Gorge, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

Man smies outside his home on the Rwandz Gorge, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

 Azadi camp home of Yazidi familes (2016).

Azadi camp home of Yazidi familes (2016).

 Soran city bazaar cobbler (2016).

Soran city bazaar cobbler (2016).

 Two Assyrian Christians outside their store in Diana Iraq (2016).

Two Assyrian Christians outside their store in Diana Iraq (2016).

 Yazidi boy at the Rwandz refugee camp, Kurdistan (2016).

Yazidi boy at the Rwandz refugee camp, Kurdistan (2016).

 Father of the Omer family prays. He is occasionally the mu'azzin, the person appointed at a mosque to lead and recite the call to prayer for every event of prayer and worship in the mosque - Iraqi, Kurdistan (2016).

Father of the Omer family prays. He is occasionally the mu'azzin, the person appointed at a mosque to lead and recite the call to prayer for every event of prayer and worship in the mosque - Iraqi, Kurdistan (2016).

 Men march at a Kurdish parade in support of their country (2016).

Men march at a Kurdish parade in support of their country (2016).

 Rwanduz refugee camp, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

Rwanduz refugee camp, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

 Extended family talks before dinner in their home in Northern Iraq, where they fled to in 2014 after ISIS took their home in Southern Iraq (May 2016).

Extended family talks before dinner in their home in Northern Iraq, where they fled to in 2014 after ISIS took their home in Southern Iraq (May 2016).

 Kurdish men wave to a friend from the roadside - Soran, Iraq (2016).

Kurdish men wave to a friend from the roadside - Soran, Iraq (2016).

 Yazidi children at Rwandx refugee camp (2017).

Yazidi children at Rwandx refugee camp (2017).

 Son of Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, behind his desk near Lalish temple discusses the future of his people (2016).

Son of Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, behind his desk near Lalish temple discusses the future of his people (2016).

 Tariq, a Yazidi man from Sinjar, who fled his home in 2014 stands barefoot inside the holy temple of Lalish (2016).

Tariq, a Yazidi man from Sinjar, who fled his home in 2014 stands barefoot inside the holy temple of Lalish (2016).

 Man with mustache, assistant to Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, stands barefoot at Lalish (2016).

Man with mustache, assistant to Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, stands barefoot at Lalish (2016).

 Iraqi Kurds on the streets of Diana Iraq (2016).

Iraqi Kurds on the streets of Diana Iraq (2016).

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 Kurdish man in Soran city with bazaar watermelon called “shifty” (2016).

Kurdish man in Soran city with bazaar watermelon called “shifty” (2016).

 Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).

Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).

 Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).

Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).

 Iraq/Iran border, marked PKK territory (2016).

Iraq/Iran border, marked PKK territory (2016).

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 Mayor Krmanj of Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan with his wife in their garden (2016).

Mayor Krmanj of Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan with his wife in their garden (2016).

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 Men wash their feet in preparation for evening prayers at a mosque in Northern Iraq (2016).

Men wash their feet in preparation for evening prayers at a mosque in Northern Iraq (2016).

 Evening prayers at a mosque in Soran, Iraq (2016).

Evening prayers at a mosque in Soran, Iraq (2016).

 Kurdish man in his jilikurdi - Diana, Iraqi Kursitan (2017).

Kurdish man in his jilikurdi - Diana, Iraqi Kursitan (2017).

 Diana Iraq (2017).

Diana Iraq (2017).

 Yazidis at their camp in Rwandz, Iraqi Kurdustan (2016).

Yazidis at their camp in Rwandz, Iraqi Kurdustan (2016).

 Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).

Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).

 Women grieve the loss of a loved one who fought with the Peshmerga against ISIS (2017).

Women grieve the loss of a loved one who fought with the Peshmerga against ISIS (2017).

 Kurdistan at dusk (2016).

Kurdistan at dusk (2016).

 Women sit inside a home at Azadi refugee camp for PTSD counseling (2017).

Women sit inside a home at Azadi refugee camp for PTSD counseling (2017).

 Kurdish men dance at a party to celebrate Kurdistan (2016).

Kurdish men dance at a party to celebrate Kurdistan (2016).

 A family waving goodbye the morning of their return to Mosul from Soran, Iraq. Some of family had not seen Mosul since August 2014 when they received a tipoff that ISIS was en route. They'd fled east to Soran—and made it out two hours shy of ISIS’s

A family waving goodbye the morning of their return to Mosul from Soran, Iraq. Some of family had not seen Mosul since August 2014 when they received a tipoff that ISIS was en route. They'd fled east to Soran—and made it out two hours shy of ISIS’s arrival. (May 2017).

 Picnic on the grounds at Akoyan camp for refugees (2016).

Picnic on the grounds at Akoyan camp for refugees (2016).

 Arab family in their new home in Iraqi Kurdistan where they fled after ISIS took their home in southern Iraq (2016).
 Syrian woman holds her grandchild outside her home at a refugee camp in Azadi, Iraq ( 2017).
 Four Kurdish men sit atop a car engine in Soran, Iraq (2016).
 PDK rally in support of Iraqi Kurdistan's 2017 Referendum vote (May 2016).
 Three Yazidis ceremonially barefoot at Lalish, the valley temple in northern Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis people (2016).
 Family await the arrival of the bride and groom to go to their wedding outside a hotel lobby in Soran, Iraq (2017).
 Women listen to the imam preach on the speaker during Friday prayers from the basement of a mosque in Soran, Iraq ( 2016).
 Kurdish girls sit in the back of the women’s prayer room at their local mosque - Iraqi Kurdistan (2016)
 Soran City at dusk. (May 2016).
 Yazidi girl stands atop craggy blocks at a neighboring camp under construction for newly arrived Syrians in the area (2017).
 Yazidi children from Shingal at their camp in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (June 2017).
 Kudish mechanic inside his garage at dusk. Soran, Iraq (July 2017).
 Men crowd around a desk to watch the mayor of the town sign documents commemorating the efforts of deceased Peshmerga fighters (2017).
 Yazidi refugee children and their Kurdish school teacher outside at an abandoned soccer stadium near the Kurdistan camp they fled to from Sinjar in 2014.  ( 2016).
 Yazidi sisters and boy inside their cinderblock home at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2016).
 Boy from Mosul, Iraq waits in the car to return home as his parents pack up the shelter they lived in for three years after fleeing ISIS in 2014 (May 2017).
 Family grieves the loss of a family member at a Peshmerga memorial opening in Soran, Iraq (May 2017).
 Two children climb from rooftop to rooftop in Soran, Iraq while Wedya, a Kurdish Muslim, prays evening prayers (May 2016).
 Yazidi grandmother and grand-daughter stand in the doorway of their shelter at the camp they fled to when ISIS took their home in Sinjar two years prior (2016).
 Nofa, a 24-year-old Yazidi woman who survived weeks living as an ISIS sex slave, sits outside her shelter at the 19,000 member Rwanga Community Camp in Qadiya, Iraq. Shot for Grazia Magazine UK (August 2017).
 Yazidi women prepare dessert plates at a refugee camp in Akoyan, Iraq (June 2017).
 Yazidi boys from Sinjar play on a hospital construction zone near their camp in Soran, Iraq (September 2017).
 Three Syrian Kurdish men inspect their new home in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (September 2017).
 Syrians meet to talk logistics the day of arrival to their newly built camp in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).
 Yazidi teenage girls host a party on the grounds at their camp in Northern Iraq. The families at the camp prohibit the girls, and not the boys, from attending the local school built for IDP in the area (2016).
 Men listen to the Mayor Krmanj Ezzat Dargali speak at a local town meeting in Soran, Iraq (2017).
 Blonde Yazidi girl at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2017).
 Yazidi boy decides to ride his bike down a hill after describing the sun’s fading light as beautiful (2017).
 Kurdish girl proud of her Kurdish dress minutes after the power went out and  playing in makeup with the other girls (2017).
 Yazidi girl at a camp school for the displaced near Dahuk, Iraq (2017).
 Naan bakery at night. Soran, Iraq (2017).
 Iraqi teenager with American swimming in skivvies in the Rwanduz gorge summer of 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan.
 Yazidi girl listens to the women’s English class at the local community center in Soran, Iraq (2016).
 Children from southern Iraq, Sinar, and Syria at the local school built for  children displaced within the region (2016).
 Kudish woman with her son at a family wedding celebration at Gulan Park in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).
 Teacher at the local school for the displaced holds plastic grapes as the children name the fruit or vegetable (2016).
 Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).
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 Yazidi children play at the construction site of a neighboring camp being built for newly arriving Syrians to Soran, Iraq (2017).
 Yazidi, Kurdish, and Syrian children at the school for displaced in Soran, Iraq (2017).
 Mosul family packing their belonging to return home while neighboring Yazidi friends watch (2017).
 Rwanduz Mountains, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).
  Bare feet at Lalish holy temple of the Yazidi people in Dohuk, Iraq. All visitors and residents are required to take off their shoes at the entrance to the village (April 2016).
 Soran city bazaar (2016).
 Kurdish men dance at night at Gulan Park, Soran, Iraq (2016).
 Man smies outside his home on the Rwandz Gorge, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).
 Azadi camp home of Yazidi familes (2016).
 Soran city bazaar cobbler (2016).
 Two Assyrian Christians outside their store in Diana Iraq (2016).
 Yazidi boy at the Rwandz refugee camp, Kurdistan (2016).
 Father of the Omer family prays. He is occasionally the mu'azzin, the person appointed at a mosque to lead and recite the call to prayer for every event of prayer and worship in the mosque - Iraqi, Kurdistan (2016).
 Men march at a Kurdish parade in support of their country (2016).
 Rwanduz refugee camp, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).
 Extended family talks before dinner in their home in Northern Iraq, where they fled to in 2014 after ISIS took their home in Southern Iraq (May 2016).
 Kurdish men wave to a friend from the roadside - Soran, Iraq (2016).
 Yazidi children at Rwandx refugee camp (2017).
 Son of Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, behind his desk near Lalish temple discusses the future of his people (2016).
 Tariq, a Yazidi man from Sinjar, who fled his home in 2014 stands barefoot inside the holy temple of Lalish (2016).
 Man with mustache, assistant to Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, stands barefoot at Lalish (2016).
 Iraqi Kurds on the streets of Diana Iraq (2016).
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 Kurdish man in Soran city with bazaar watermelon called “shifty” (2016).
 Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).
 Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).
 Iraq/Iran border, marked PKK territory (2016).
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 Mayor Krmanj of Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan with his wife in their garden (2016).
IMG_9441.jpg
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 Men wash their feet in preparation for evening prayers at a mosque in Northern Iraq (2016).
 Evening prayers at a mosque in Soran, Iraq (2016).
 Kurdish man in his jilikurdi - Diana, Iraqi Kursitan (2017).
 Diana Iraq (2017).
 Yazidis at their camp in Rwandz, Iraqi Kurdustan (2016).
 Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).
 Women grieve the loss of a loved one who fought with the Peshmerga against ISIS (2017).
 Kurdistan at dusk (2016).
 Women sit inside a home at Azadi refugee camp for PTSD counseling (2017).
 Kurdish men dance at a party to celebrate Kurdistan (2016).
 A family waving goodbye the morning of their return to Mosul from Soran, Iraq. Some of family had not seen Mosul since August 2014 when they received a tipoff that ISIS was en route. They'd fled east to Soran—and made it out two hours shy of ISIS’s
 Picnic on the grounds at Akoyan camp for refugees (2016).

Arab family in their new home in Iraqi Kurdistan where they fled after ISIS took their home in southern Iraq (2016).

Syrian woman holds her grandchild outside her home at a refugee camp in Azadi, Iraq ( 2017).

Four Kurdish men sit atop a car engine in Soran, Iraq (2016).

PDK rally in support of Iraqi Kurdistan's 2017 Referendum vote (May 2016).

Three Yazidis ceremonially barefoot at Lalish, the valley temple in northern Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis people (2016).

Family await the arrival of the bride and groom to go to their wedding outside a hotel lobby in Soran, Iraq (2017).

Women listen to the imam preach on the speaker during Friday prayers from the basement of a mosque in Soran, Iraq ( 2016).

Kurdish girls sit in the back of the women’s prayer room at their local mosque - Iraqi Kurdistan (2016)

Soran City at dusk. (May 2016).

Yazidi girl stands atop craggy blocks at a neighboring camp under construction for newly arrived Syrians in the area (2017).

Yazidi children from Shingal at their camp in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (June 2017).

Kudish mechanic inside his garage at dusk. Soran, Iraq (July 2017).

Men crowd around a desk to watch the mayor of the town sign documents commemorating the efforts of deceased Peshmerga fighters (2017).

Yazidi refugee children and their Kurdish school teacher outside at an abandoned soccer stadium near the Kurdistan camp they fled to from Sinjar in 2014. ( 2016).

Yazidi sisters and boy inside their cinderblock home at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2016).

Boy from Mosul, Iraq waits in the car to return home as his parents pack up the shelter they lived in for three years after fleeing ISIS in 2014 (May 2017).

Family grieves the loss of a family member at a Peshmerga memorial opening in Soran, Iraq (May 2017).

Two children climb from rooftop to rooftop in Soran, Iraq while Wedya, a Kurdish Muslim, prays evening prayers (May 2016).

Yazidi grandmother and grand-daughter stand in the doorway of their shelter at the camp they fled to when ISIS took their home in Sinjar two years prior (2016).

Nofa, a 24-year-old Yazidi woman who survived weeks living as an ISIS sex slave, sits outside her shelter at the 19,000 member Rwanga Community Camp in Qadiya, Iraq. Shot for Grazia Magazine UK (August 2017).

Yazidi women prepare dessert plates at a refugee camp in Akoyan, Iraq (June 2017).

Yazidi boys from Sinjar play on a hospital construction zone near their camp in Soran, Iraq (September 2017).

Three Syrian Kurdish men inspect their new home in Azadi, Iraqi Kurdistan (September 2017).

Syrians meet to talk logistics the day of arrival to their newly built camp in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).

Yazidi teenage girls host a party on the grounds at their camp in Northern Iraq. The families at the camp prohibit the girls, and not the boys, from attending the local school built for IDP in the area (2016).

Men listen to the Mayor Krmanj Ezzat Dargali speak at a local town meeting in Soran, Iraq (2017).

Blonde Yazidi girl at their camp in Azadi, Iraq (2017).

Yazidi boy decides to ride his bike down a hill after describing the sun’s fading light as beautiful (2017).

Kurdish girl proud of her Kurdish dress minutes after the power went out and playing in makeup with the other girls (2017).

Yazidi girl at a camp school for the displaced near Dahuk, Iraq (2017).

Naan bakery at night. Soran, Iraq (2017).

Iraqi teenager with American swimming in skivvies in the Rwanduz gorge summer of 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan.

Yazidi girl listens to the women’s English class at the local community center in Soran, Iraq (2016).

Children from southern Iraq, Sinar, and Syria at the local school built for children displaced within the region (2016).

Kudish woman with her son at a family wedding celebration at Gulan Park in Iraqi Kurdistan (2017).

Teacher at the local school for the displaced holds plastic grapes as the children name the fruit or vegetable (2016).

Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).

Yazidi children play at the construction site of a neighboring camp being built for newly arriving Syrians to Soran, Iraq (2017).

Yazidi, Kurdish, and Syrian children at the school for displaced in Soran, Iraq (2017).

Mosul family packing their belonging to return home while neighboring Yazidi friends watch (2017).

Rwanduz Mountains, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

Bare feet at Lalish holy temple of the Yazidi people in Dohuk, Iraq. All visitors and residents are required to take off their shoes at the entrance to the village (April 2016).

Soran city bazaar (2016).

Kurdish men dance at night at Gulan Park, Soran, Iraq (2016).

Man smies outside his home on the Rwandz Gorge, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

Azadi camp home of Yazidi familes (2016).

Soran city bazaar cobbler (2016).

Two Assyrian Christians outside their store in Diana Iraq (2016).

Yazidi boy at the Rwandz refugee camp, Kurdistan (2016).

Father of the Omer family prays. He is occasionally the mu'azzin, the person appointed at a mosque to lead and recite the call to prayer for every event of prayer and worship in the mosque - Iraqi, Kurdistan (2016).

Men march at a Kurdish parade in support of their country (2016).

Rwanduz refugee camp, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016).

Extended family talks before dinner in their home in Northern Iraq, where they fled to in 2014 after ISIS took their home in Southern Iraq (May 2016).

Kurdish men wave to a friend from the roadside - Soran, Iraq (2016).

Yazidi children at Rwandx refugee camp (2017).

Son of Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, behind his desk near Lalish temple discusses the future of his people (2016).

Tariq, a Yazidi man from Sinjar, who fled his home in 2014 stands barefoot inside the holy temple of Lalish (2016).

Man with mustache, assistant to Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi people, stands barefoot at Lalish (2016).

Iraqi Kurds on the streets of Diana Iraq (2016).

Kurdish man in Soran city with bazaar watermelon called “shifty” (2016).

Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).

Yazidi girls during English class at local school for the displaced in Diana (2016).

Iraq/Iran border, marked PKK territory (2016).

Mayor Krmanj of Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan with his wife in their garden (2016).

Men wash their feet in preparation for evening prayers at a mosque in Northern Iraq (2016).

Evening prayers at a mosque in Soran, Iraq (2016).

Kurdish man in his jilikurdi - Diana, Iraqi Kursitan (2017).

Diana Iraq (2017).

Yazidis at their camp in Rwandz, Iraqi Kurdustan (2016).

Kurds gather at a rally in support of the referendum at the local soccer stadium (2016).

Women grieve the loss of a loved one who fought with the Peshmerga against ISIS (2017).

Kurdistan at dusk (2016).

Women sit inside a home at Azadi refugee camp for PTSD counseling (2017).

Kurdish men dance at a party to celebrate Kurdistan (2016).

A family waving goodbye the morning of their return to Mosul from Soran, Iraq. Some of family had not seen Mosul since August 2014 when they received a tipoff that ISIS was en route. They'd fled east to Soran—and made it out two hours shy of ISIS’s arrival. (May 2017).

Picnic on the grounds at Akoyan camp for refugees (2016).

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