Jérôme Sessini Bashiqa, Iraq. November 7, 2016.
“A Peshmerga fighter mourns his comrade, a tank driver, after he was killed by an ISIS sniper during the offensive on Bashiqa.
My personal life and my life as a p
(...) hotographer are totally influenced by each other. My approach to war, and especially death, shifted after I made this series of images in Iraq. I still don't know what form this newly gained awareness will take, but 2016 marks for me a deep change in my photography, and far beyond it.”
– Jérôme Sessini © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos