Whenever I go away for work I try to bring a disposable 35mm camera with me for random snaps, usually for scenery. Sounds a bit pretentious I know, but I got the idea off of someone else a few years ago and the results can be nice. I took two disposables to Iraq and Syria with me on this most recent trip. I managed to fuck up 90% of the shots but some of the useable ones are below. They’re nothing special but I just got them back from the shop and thought some were half decent.

Concrete frames sit at the side of the road. They’re used by the YPG to secure the underground tunnels that they’re digging all over Rojava. The tunnels will used if they’re invaded by one of their neighbours and a new war breaks out.

Asayis security forces checking papers between checkpoints.

A dick spray painted on a wall in Dêrik, showing the international symbol for bored young men knows no bounds.

Young men heard sheep at the side of the road on a brutally hot day near Amude.

A lone strip of LED lights hangs from a window sill in a rooftop restaurant in Dêrik.

The daunting spectre of the two Assads loom over a building in the regime controlled side of town in Qamishli, a place we only saw for a few seconds via the roundabout as we drove through. The week before we arrived in Qamishli an American tourist was kidnapped by regime forces.

Life goes on in areas previously under the control of ISIS.

Barricades set up in side streets in Qamishli, separating the YPG controlled areas from the regime ones.

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