Mokhallad Rasem draws inspiration from the allegations these women sent out into the world: lamentations which express both the senselessness of violence and the anger at one’s own powerlessness.

We don’t need to look far for the similarity with countries like Iraq, Syria and Libya which have been ripped apart by war, extremism and sectarian violence and where grief and suffering echo down the centuries. With images he shot in Iraq, Mokhallad Rasem shows how women in these countries deal with violence and its knock-on effects. The perennial question is: and what about after the violence?