Photographing Syrian Refugees With Esa Ylijaasko
by Julius Motal on 03/14/2015
A child with one shoe sat on a pile of rubble and licked the remains of a dessert off a spoon. Several feet away stood the remains of a half demolished house in which Syrian Kurdish refugees created their home away from home. They fled their homes in Syria some time ago in order to find some degree of safety from the civil war that has ravaged their country. They found their way to Süleymaniye, a neighborhood in Istanbul mostly known for the city’s largest mosque, and it is there that Finnish photographer Esa Ylijaasko forged strong ties.
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