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Joey L

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Edmond Simpson 'Peyton's Place' (Peyton-Joey L) (11-23)

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Portraits from war: the Kurdish fighters taking on ISIS

“I took another photograph of Berivan with one of her fellow female fighters, Silava. While the pair looked stoically into my camera as I took shots, they suddenly broke out laughing together. They then insisted that if I was going to publish one of the images, then I should use the laughing one, as it is ‘more realistic, because we always laugh when we fight on the frontlines.’”

All photos are taken from the book We Came From Fire, by Canadian photographer Joey L.

[who are these women? | read more | joey’s website | buy the book]

Captions:

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrilla members on an armed patrol in the countryside of Makhmur in Iraq.

Silava and Berivan of the Yazidi Women’s units (YJÊ) share a laugh in an abandoned ISIS base in Sinjar.

Fighters of the YJÊ gather outside their base for military training.

Jîn, a YPJ fighter, with rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

Evîndar and Nûdem, PKK guerrillas.

Warshin, a survivor of the Yazidi genocide and volunteer YJÊ fighter, in the Nineveh governorate in Iraq.

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Portrait of actor Christian Bale as Army Captain Joseph Blocker taken by photographer Joey L. on the set of Hostiles.

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omo, ethiopia, joey l.

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Debbie Harry photographed by Joey L for The Sunday Times Magazine UK, April 2017

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women’s day celebrations in rojava, 2015

photos by joey l.

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Holy Men of Varanasi (Joey L.,2014)