Rojava project on TIME Magazine
April 19, 2014
Glad to see my work from Syrian Kurdistan published on Time LightBox. I spent around 3 week in Kuridstan during October 2013.
Here the work I done with stils and motion and a text with my experience on the ground.
The multimedia has been directed with Eduardo Matas.
TIME LightBox: Rojava, Syria: Fabio Bucciarelli in the Land of the Kurds As I got off the boat, after teetering across the Tigris River from Iraq, I think about how much Syria has changed since the last time I was here. We have seen thousands of deaths, millions of people forced to become refugees and the specter of chemical weapons. The demand for democracy and freedom, once screamed by the rebels, has all but disintegrated, as it’s now a fight for land and resources. The Syrian government has largely lost control of Rojava, allowing the Syrian-Kurdish paramilitary troops called the Popular Protection Units (YPG) to rise in their absence. YPG was once crucial to keeping out extremist groups, but since last spring, militants within Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have aimed to expand their control and conquer territory in the northern land. [more…]