KOLOJO, IRAQ: Rostam Haji Hamajan reads the Koran while a girl plays on a rope swing, Kulajo 2008. © Sebastien Meyer

Residents make their way among destroyed buildings in Raqqa, Syria, Sunday, November 12, 2018. More than a year after the end of the brutal fighting that liberated the one time capital city of the Islamic State, and a devastating air campaign that mostly flattened it, Raqqa lies in ruins. © Victor J. Blue. From Cities in Dust, an exhibition by Victor J. Blue at the Bronx Documentary Center through April 21, 2019.