During the night of August 6 2014, ISIS militants swept through the Christian town of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq. They drove out the population, systematically destroyed churches, defaced religious icons, littered the area with IEDs and methodically set the town on fire, house by house.This project, shot in April 2017, six months after the town was recaptured by Iraqi forces, offers a glimpse into the lives of Iraq’s Christian community at a time of great upheaval. While Muslim towns were re-inhabited almost as soon as ISIS were driven out, Christian towns like Qaraqosh remained deserted for many months, weeds sprouting through cracks in the pavement and overtaking the charred ruins that lined the streets. For many Iraqi Christians, ISIS was just the latest of a long line of groups that have persecuted the minority in recent decades, and many fear that they will never again feel completely safe.