Category: Spring 2018

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.