Rebuilding Raqqa

• Photographer
  Filip Warwick, United Kingdom
• Studio
  Freelance
• Website
  https://www.filipwarwick.com/
• Instagram
  @filipwarwick

Raqqa lies in utter ruins. For nearly four years the Syrian city served as the facto capital of the Islamic State (IS).

Liberated by the Syrian Democratic Forces and US-led international coalition air campaign, the four-month push to oust the Islamic State, which ended in October 2017, destroyed some 90 percent of the city.

On the ground shelled out buildings protrude from the jagged landscape while residential areas and civilian infrastructure lie in ruin.

With the city liberated some residents have cautiously returned.

Filip Warwick comments on human conflict, humanitarian crisis, historical and social issues in Central & Eastern Europe as well as the Middle East.

He has covered the 2014 Ukrainian Euromaidan Revolution, the war in eastern Ukraine, the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the European refugee crisis, the Iraqi Civil War, the Syrian Civil War and refugees & migrants fleeing Libya.

His work has featured on Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera English, CBC, Die Presse, GlobalPost, Politico, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Sydney Morning Herald, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Washington Times.

Awards Awards and acknowledgement for his work include International Color Awards, The Prix de la Photographie Paris: P×3, LensCulture Exposure Awards, IPA and MIFA.