Islahiye,Turkey, a refugee camp for Syrians who have fled the conflict at home, August-September 2012. The Islahiye refugee camp is one of 11 built in Turkey after the army of Al-Assad, known for his cruelty, struck the city of Aleppo. Over 80,000 Syrian refugees have fled the 18-month-long conflict. “12 Faces” is a story told in two ways. The first being the portraits of refugees, photographed with a large format graflex camera that date back to World War II. The second is made of the refugees’ personal accounts of the horrors of war, written down in the first person. This is a record of Syria’s modern history and the war of President Bashar al-Assad with his own nation
Filip Cwik was born in Szczecin (Poland) in 1973. Photojournalist for Newsweek Pllska for more than 10 years, previously working for the “Gazeta Wyborcza” daily. Cwik is a co-founder and member of Napo Images photographic agency. For many years his reportages for Newsweek focused on leading figures in the world of Polish politics. He also covered Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia and Denmark. He is currently working on a project in Poland. Cwik is the winner of numerous awards including World Press Photo in 2011 for series of portraits “National Mourning in Poland”.
