Story behind

In the summer of 2014, ISIS embarked on a campaign of genocide in northern Iraq's Sinjar region, intent on killing, capturing and forcibly converting members of the ancient religion they considered infidels. Thousands of women were taken into sexual slavery, young boys turned to be soldiers.

Seven years later, almost 200,000 Yazidis — nearly half of Sinjar's population before the genocide — are still living in displacement camps in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, either too traumatized or too poor to return.

To capture this groundbreaking project, Martin Bandzak did travel to Northern Iraq regularly in last five years. He was granted exclusive access to document the life of traumatized Yazidis community, still living in displacement camps.

Book Edition

96 pages

210 × 240 mm

Softcover booklet housed in oversized folded poster

Text by Denisa Augustinova

Slovak and English version

First printing October 2021

All proceeds from the sales of the books and prints go towards supporting MAGNA medical projects. With every purchase, you’re saving lives.

Special Print Edition also available and each comprising

Two archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle Photo Paper: A photograph by Martin Bandzak and a drawing by illustrator Tero Abaffy

20 × 15 cm each, signed and numbered by the artists in an edition of 100

A signed first edition of the book Jehe Bereeni

Jehe Bereeni

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