“I was really looking into love stories, mixed marriages which are bridges between people who are apart because of their religion, because of the war,” Photographer Veronique de Viguerie, a winner of the recent All About Photo awards, tells the Phoblographer in an interview. Veronique has been covering the war against ISIS for years, and this image was shot just a month after Mosul was freed. “I was looking into a hope story when my fixer called me and told me that there was a wedding in East Mosul. I was working in the Western side of the city, I took a taxi, and I arrived as the bride was getting her makeup done in the beauty salon.” Here, they took the photo in front of the destroyed houses of the war. Her life as a photojournalist is truly difficult, but the images she makes are worth it.
