Photo essay: Waiting for Kobane

Kurdish families in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp are waiting to return to their hometown Kobane, wrestled back from ISIS. Despite many…

Kurdish families in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp are waiting to return to their hometown Kobane, wrestled back from ISIS. Photographer Alexandro Auler observed their daily life in the camp’s dusty landscape.

Despite many making their return journey at the end of March 2015, about two thousand people are still living at the camp, which is located 30 km from the Turkish city of Suruc.

A woman stands in front of her tent in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A mother carries her son in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

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A woman walks with two children in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A mother carries her son in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A man and a young boy leave the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp in the top of a truck. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

Families pictured in front of their tents in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

Children stand near a temporary washing line in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A child stands in front of tents in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A mother carries his son at Sehit Gelhat refugee camp while taking water from the well. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A mother carries his son at Sehit Gelhat refugee camp after taking water from the well. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A young boy holds onto the dress of a woman as they walk in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A man stands near the toilets in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)

A woman stands in front of tents in the Sehit Gelhat refugee camp. (Photo: Alexandro Auler/Demotix)