I’ve decided to post these pictures I took whilst in the town of Telskuf Iraq. I originally took the pictures to go with an article about a Christian refugee camp and what it’s new residents had fled. However I thought the images deserved a better show that what they got in the news article. I want to show the destruction and devastation left by war. How people’s homes and possessions that they worked their lives for had looted and destroyed in just a few hours. Telskuf Christian history dating back as far as the eleventh century and possibly further. Assyrian writer Giwargis Warda first mentions the Town as an Assyrian Christian village in a thirteenth-century poem. This poem describes its sack by a raiding band of Mongols in November 1235 and the destruction of its church. The attack in 2014 was just latest in a series of attacks dating hundreds of years and I cant help but wonder if it will be the last……..

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Andy Bush documentary photographer Fuji X-T1 Iraq Telskuf