A living archive of two years spent in the shadow of the war between ISIS and Kurdish forces, this book moves through dust, silence, frontline smoke, and the dense geometry of refugee camps. Each image holds the weight of people suspended between survival and erasure, in a landscape marked by the psychological and spiritual toll of conflict.

 

Standing inside the story, the photographer rejects the usual myths and theatrics of war photography. There is no heroic staging, only the stark textures of everyday life inside chaos: a child’s toy in the dirt, a soldier’s faraway gaze, a brief laugh breaking fear. With quiet precision and defiant irony, 101 Beads challenges the distance between the West’s consumption of war and the lived absurdity on the ground, revealing that conflict is never just battles, but the fragile moments in between.