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In its June 2017 issue, Time magazine presents the reportage, The Burning Sands of Iraq, by French photographer Edouard Elias. Elias documented the work of Iraqi firefighters in Qayyarah. Their painstaking work consists in extinguishing burning oil fields, that were set of fire by ISIS fighters as they withdrew from the area.

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Leica M Monochrom / Summicron-M 28 mm f/2 Asph

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Edouard Elias

Born in Nîmes in 1991. After spending ten years in Egypt, Elias returned to France and studied photography at the Écoles de Condé in Nancy. After doing a reportage on a refugee camp in Turkey, he began to document the Syrian civil war. He spent ten months in prison there. His work has appeared in Der Spiegel, Paris Match and Sunday Times Magazine.

www.edouardelias.com