Photographs

A curated visual archive of Mosul — the city before the occupation, the city under it, the city as it is being rebuilt.

The selection below is a starting point. The full archive of photographic material runs into thousands of images; the curated set here aims to give visitors a representative passage through the years and the city’s neighbourhoods, with attribution kept beside each frame.

Before

[Editor: replace with a Gallery or Tiled Gallery of photographs of Mosul before the occupation.]

Under occupation

[Editor: a curated set of images from the 2014–2017 years, with date, neighbourhood, and photographer in each caption.]

Liberation week, July 2017

[Editor: the week the city was retaken — Old City, the rubble of Al-Nuri, the Al-Hadbaa stump, the first returns.]

Recovery, 2018 to today

[Editor: markets reopening, schools rebuilt, the minaret being restored, the Mosul Eye House.]

Heritage

[Editor: rescued manuscripts, restored shrines, recovered photographs from private collections. Pair with the register of destroyed sites and the essay Space, Time and People.]

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To populate each section, edit this page and replace the editor notes with the core Gallery block or the Tiled Gallery block (Jetpack). Captions should carry the photographer’s name, the location, and the year. If you have photographs of Mosul that belong in this archive, please write to contact@mosul-eye.org.