ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The day after Newroz (Persian and Kurdish New Year) Kurds, Assyrians, Alevis, Armenians, Yezidis, and numerous Kurdish NGOs in Brussels demonstrate against the Turkish backed operation which allows Syrian rebels (Salafists, according to the demonstrators) to take the centre of Afrin, located in what the Kurds call the Canton of Rojava in North West Syria. Demonstrators covered in blood and carrying the pictures of the fallen or wounded combatants chant slogans honouring the martyrs.

AUTHOR
Andrea RICCI is Italian, but lives and works in Brussels. He is a journalist and former contributor to La Repubblica; he has a PhD in Communication and Information Sciences, and a strong interest in art history, photojournalism and documentary photography.
His current photographic projects focus on countries in crisis, symbolic urban locations, popular religiosity and the concept of aesthetic order.

back to gallery