After Darkness: Mosul emerges from Isis control – in pictures
After a nine-month battle, Islamic State was finally expelled from Mosul, leaving devastation and residents physically and psychologically scarred by the war. Abbie Trayler-Smith’s new exhibition records the devastating effects of life under Isis control in northern Iraq and the bewildering aftermath of conflict
- After Darkness is at Anima-Mundi, St Ives, until 27 March
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The road to Mosul. All photographs: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos
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Vehicles escaping the battle arrive at Hasan Sham camp in northern Iraq
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Luma, 12, lives next door to a burning oil well in Qayyarah, Iraq. More than 15 wells in the town were set alight by Isis as they retreated
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Rana, 38, with her sons, Ali and Mohammed, on the roof of their house in Qayyarah, northern Iraq
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Samira Leylan, 50, at her home in Bashir. The village was retaken from Isis in May and residents have started to return home
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Dalia, five, outside a school building in Haj Ali where families sought refuge after fleeing the fighting in Mosul
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Yusra Abdullah, 23, is living in limbo with her five children in a chicken barn, unable to go home and unable to move
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Thana Abdulah, 42, travelled with her mother-in-law and children to Tinah camp from her village of Iman Gabi
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Hana, 18, is an Oxfam community health promoter in the village of Owsijah
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Sara, age 24, arrives at Hasan Sham camp for displaced people after being taken by bus straight from the battle
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A taxi in west Mosul bears the marks of war
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A rebuilt hairdressers in Jalawla that was occupied by Isis during the fighting
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