Author: The Capra Review

All week, a hot, dry, wind had been blowing into L.A. from the desert.  Inside our Hollywood bungalow, half a block up from Highland Avenue, my parents slid past each other, silent, their backs to the wall.

Despite the terror of sleep, Gene had to fight the urge to drop back into the obliteration of the couch. Delia was right, about his cries.

She’d called him, frantic, in the middle of a workday—but now there was no answer. Matthew pressed harder against the front door, which was unlocked, but stuck. Behind it, there was a smell: a heavy, suffocating dog smell.

Between 2016 and 2017, Castellano spent six months in Iraq photographing the conflict against the Islamic State. During that time he visited Ankawa 2, a camp for internally displaced people run by the Assyrian Catholic Church in the city of Erbil in Kurdistan, an autonomous region in northern Iraq.