A reportage from Mosul and north iraq with a Leica Q

[giuliomagnifico]

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About one month ago I travelled to Iraq (for the second time in my life) in order to make a reportage in the city of Mosul and the refugees camp... now the photos are online! Not all the photos are made with the Leica Q because I went with the Q and a Nikon D800E with a 105 macro lens.
Here you can view all the photos, plus I put in this thread some photos taken with the Leica Q. It has been a great choice for this reportage! 
 
The sharpness and the overall user experience is incredible... I love this camera! Battery never faults, dust has never been a problem and the power of this small camera is incredible. The only little trouble I found is with the heat and heat. The camera has never shuts down itself but few times after a lot of photos under the sun with 45 degrees it became hot to keep in my hand, although I used it with the Leica grip. But it doesn't mean the camera has trouble with the heat but only that it dissipates well the heat    
 
Thanks for your time, here are some photos taken with the Q. 
 
All the photos and videos are here:
 
https://www.giuliomagnifico.it/mosul-iraq-2017
 
https://www.giuliomagnifico.it/iraq-2017
 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
And that's me with the Q always at my neck 
 

 

 

Edited September 19, 2017 by giuliomagnifico

[Leica Guy]

About one month ago I travelled to Iraq (for the second time in my life) in order to make a reportage in the city of Mosul and the refugees camp... now the photos are online! Not all the photos are made with the Leica Q because I went with the Q and a Nikon D800E with a 105 macro lens.

Here you can view all the photos, plus I put in this thread some photos taken with the Leica Q. It has been a great choice for this reportage!

 

The sharpness and the overall user experience is incredible... I love this camera! Battery never faults, dust has never been a problem and the power of this small camera is incredible. The only little trouble I found is with the heat and heat. The camera has never shuts down itself but few times after a lot of photos under the sun with 45 degrees it became hot to keep in my hand, although I used it with the Leica grip. But it doesn't mean the camera has trouble with the heat but only that it dissipates well the heat

 

Thanks for your time, here are some photos taken with the Q.

 

All the photos and videos are here:

 

https://www.giuliomagnifico.it/mosul-iraq-2017

 

https://www.giuliomagnifico.it/iraq-2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that's me with the Q always at my neck

 

 

 

Wow. I admire the great work you do telling these poor folks stories. Truly, a great job!! Thank you.

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[mikemgb]

Wonderful photographs, you show the destruction and the resilience of the people very well.

Edited September 20, 2017 by mikemgb

[Lucena]

All the emotion you felt is in your photos. Thanks for sharing, no words can say what I feel.

And great Q indeed, great D800E and 105 too,I have the same gear and really appreciate it...

[Pjay]

You're a very, very brave man, and your photos are wonderful!

[prk60091]

incredible reportage. . .  thank you for sharing

[tobey bilek]

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This is so sad to see.  Shame some would do this to gain power over others.

[Pjay]

giuliomagnifico, your story and images reminded me of this guy:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-04/david-eubank-man-who-willingly-takes-his-family-to-war/8867792

 

Very inspirational stuff....

Edited September 20, 2017 by Pjay

[Smoothlander]

Wow...really nice.  I thoroughly enjoyed your photos.  Curious, how much did you use your other camera vs using the Q?

[giuliomagnifico]

Thanks to all friends! Im realy glad to read these messages about my work 

 

Wow...really nice.  I thoroughly enjoyed your photos.  Curious, how much did you use your other camera vs using the Q?

 

I used the Nikon for the portraits and some photos in Mosul, when I needed a bit of zoom (105mm), but I used the Q almost twice than the D800E 

 

 

 

Thanks a lot for the messages, really!  I'm glad to know that i've done "something" for the world, in order to make people to understand what's the situation of the refugees and why the are escaping from their cities.... just see how is Mosul 

[robert blu]

These are very strong photos, bravo Giulio. They are all excellent but I specially like the second with the people in the room and the special light entering. As other already said it is so sad that these things happen...you are3 doing a great job letting us know...grazie.

robert

PS: be careful be safe please

[StS]

Outstanding reportage, excellent tonal range control

 

Stefan

[kape06111]

Really, thanks for sharing. 

[zakzavada]

Top quality work

[kaethe]

I visited your website. Powerful, but tasteful and respectful presentation. Your background videos on your website provide a nice addition to the gallery photos. Did you use the Q to take these?

[giuliomagnifico]

I visited your website. Powerful, but tasteful and respectful presentation. Your background videos on your website provide a nice addition to the gallery photos. Did you use the Q to take these?

Thanks! For the videos I used a Polaroid Cube Plus mounted above the Q, and sometimes the iPhone 7! For the photos int the “photo diary” page, I used only the iPhone 7.

[giuliomagnifico]

Not available at my website reportage page... some photos from the Q but with colors. I'm in love with the range tonality of the Q 
 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 2, 2017 by giuliomagnifico

[Likaleica]

Very nice work.  Was this a personal project, or were you on assignment?  Freelance?

[stuny]

Excellent reportage.

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[giuliomagnifico]

Very nice work.  Was this a personal project, or were you on assignment?  Freelance?

 

Freelance, I entered Mosul (and Iraq) with taxi and other cars, then I met my Kurdish/Yazidi friend... I prefer to go alone, not embedded, because I'm "more free" to do (and go) where I want and not stay behind the iraqi militaries..

 

 

Here we are in Mosul, before entered in the old city. Me, my yazidi friend (who took the photo) and the fabulous taxi driver, who bring us in (and out, that has been more complicated then enter) to the old city of Mosul.

 

 

He left us just over the new bridge with his taxi, then I gave a camera to my yazidi friend and I said him "follow me"

 

 

After some times (I think about 1/2 hours) that we were alone around in the old city, an Iraqi tank/militaries found us and they bring us to a checkpoint were the militaries prevented us to take more photos. When we left the city, at the first checkpoint with iraqi militaries, they forced me to delete all the photos in my cameras/memory card/iphone but I recovered all of the images as soon I arrived to my hotel (with sandisk recovery software). And in the confusion I left my passport at the checkpoint, we passed another (Peshmerga) checkpoint and they didn't ask me for the passport. Just after this second checkpoint I realized that I was without my passport!  The problem was that I can't go back in Mosul without the passport... so the taxi driver left his driver license in order to ensure for me and then we went again in Mosul to take my passport   

 

yeah it was an hard day... in fact I fell asleep many times between a checkpoint and the other   (there are about 4/5 checkpoints to Mosul from Dahuk)

 

 

Excellent reportage.

 

thank you! 

Edited October 3, 2017 by giuliomagnifico