Assyrians recounts a photographic survey conducted over two years with the Assyrian community by Romane Iskaria. This book offers the reader a journey through the Assyrian community and its history, alternating between photographs,archival images and a collection of intimate objects, punctuated by testimonies. Through a documentary and fictional approach Assyrians sheds light on this disappeared territory and its community.
(The Assyrians book was the winner in June 2021 of the call for projects launched by the Kickstarter platform and the French magazine Polka to support the creation of a first photographic book. Assyrians is the winner of the Belgian Photo selection Books which will be shown at the Rencontres d'Arles in France in July 2022.)
