TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 4月7日 00時26分

Homes make a city. More than buildings, roads, schools, markets, hospitals and shops, it’s homes and the people who live in them that create the life of a place. ISIS conquered #Raqqa, which it named its first capital, and eventually the Iraqi city of #Mosul, where it declared its caliphate, in order to control millions of those lives. The militants ruled with a level of cruelty and madness almost unknown in our time, and it took a year of sustained combat to pry the two cities from their grasp. The United Nations calculates that 80% of the Old City of Mosul is in ruins. Raqqa is considered “unfit for human habitation,” with 11,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. The consequences for residents are worse. Walking slowly along the mounds reveals an archaeology of oblivion, writes photographer @victorblue. The detritus of daily life mixed with the castoffs of war—ammunition and unexploded ordnance, toys, cooking pots, kevlar vests and flowered blankets—all tossed with human remains. It taxes the imagination to visualize the amount of explosive power needed to destroy so many buildings. Read more, and see more pictures, at the link in bio. Photograph by @victorblue

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