ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The images in this submission are from my coverage of the war on Isis in Iraq 2014-2017. I began photographing the conflict with the Kurdish Peshmerga in 2014 as they tried to hold back the advancing terror group from entering their territory. Later I embedded with Iraqi special forces units as the deadly liberation of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, began.
The war had a devastating effect on the country and its population and my focus was to portray their battle for survival and freedom fought both on the frontlines and among the millions of civilians which lives had been ravaged by war and the rule of a brutal terror regime.

Battle for Mosul:
Iraqi youth militia, ages ranging from 13 to 17, enforce a checkpoint in Qayyarah, Iraq that was formed after the town's liberation in October 2016. They were recruited to maintain this checkpoint, patrol the area and keep up a presence of security in the destroyed city near the burning oil wells that were set ablaze by ISIS militants during their retreat from the town. The town was repeatedly attacked by Isis militants in an attempt to retake territory liberated by the Iraqi army. (Photo by Osie Greenway)

AUTHOR
Photographer and videographer Osie Greenway has been working since 2012 covering humanitarian issues, conflicts, and social developments focusing on subjects such as the war against ISIS in Iraq, the effect of the Syrian refugee crisis, and political turmoil in the mideast.

He is currently based in the US covering social, political and cultural issues including the American opioid epidemic and civil rights movements.

His work has been published in major publications around the world and presented in exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Brussels, Moscow, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Phiadelphia, Vienna and Scotland.


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