When the borders bleed

Throughout their history, the Kurdish people have been the victims of geopolitics. Caught in the middle of wars and conflicts in the oil-rich territory where the borders of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey converge, exploited and betrayed first by colonial nations and then by Cold War superpowers, they have most recently endured genocidal campaigns waged against them by Saddam Hussein. This stunning visual essay - one hundred photographs taken in locales ranging from Turkey, Iraq, and Israel to Britain and Germany - brings the Kurdish struggle for survival into sharp, powerfully affecting focus.…