CHRISTIAN WERNER, GERMANY
IRAQ: THE FATE OF THE YAZIDIS
Iraqi winter is coming. Yazidi families who fled from the barbaric butchers of the ‘Islamic State’ try to find temporary shelter in tents, on the streets and amid the concrete shells of unfinished buildings and the debris of the ones destroyed.
Up to 8,000 Yazidis have fled to the Iraqi town of Zakho. They live under horrible conditions, especially their children. They suffer from cold, confinement, hunger and a lack of clean water and sanitation. And they suffer from fear and from the traumatic experiences that this Kurdish-speaking minority made with ‘IS’, whose fighters slaughter them wherever they can.

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For German photographer Christian Werner, born in Hanover in 1987, this was not the first photo series that took place in Iraq. In 2012, he already took pictures in Iraqi hospitals, showing the unimaginable suffering of children in a war-torn country.
Curriculum Vitae: Christian Werner (laif)
