The women taking on #Isis: on the ground with Iraq’s female fighters | Art and design | The Guardian
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Yaghobzadeh travelled to Sinjar to photograph the aftermath of the devastation over several trips in late 2014 and mid 2015. His recent reportage #Yazidi Women: Their Bodies a Battlefield shows how gender roles are shifting in the face of fundamentalism. He took partial portraits of women who were kidnapped, tortured and raped by Isis, subjected to “everything you could imagine for women among savages.” On top of the trauma, most deny they were raped because of the culture of shame around sex (young women often say their friends were, but that they were not). The most difficult part of his work, says Yaghobzadeh, was convincing them to be photographed at all. He uses masking techniques to protect his subjects: “even one picture is better than nothing,” he says.
