The forgotten Kurds

I’ve had a great interest and passion on Kurds since I was a child. I’ve been hosted hundreds of time by Kurdish families and I’ve always breathed a peaceful atmosphere with them. When I heard about the siege of Kobane, attacked from every corner by IS, I was really afraid about my friends in Kurdistan. I was looking some videos about the fight inside Kobane shot from a hill facing the city in Turkish territory where I was an year before and I started deeply to think to go back in Kurdistan: It was a need and a duty at the same time. After months documenting the situation on the border, on February 2015 I crossed into Kobane; since that day I've never stopped document the tragedy of kurdish people, until today. This is a travel amongst people of Rojava, following their visions from the desert of war rubbles to Anatolia.

Giacomo Sini born in Pisa, (Italy) in 1989. In 2014 he obtained a degree in social sciences at Pisa University. Passionate about the Middle East and Central Asia, has photographed many times the realities of conflict in Syria, Lebanon and Kurdistan. He is interested mostly in refugee’s stories from conflict and post conflict areas and cultural reports. Today is livining in Livorno, (Italy). His works have been published in Vice, El Pais, Stern, L'Express, Humanité Dimanche, Internazionale,NZZ, Repubblica, Al Jazeera, The Guardian.