““With the exception of Vice News, ISIS has permitted no foreign journalists to document life under their rule in Raqqa,” Crabapple wrote. “Instead, they rely on their own propaganda. To create these images, I drew from cell-phone photos a Syrian sent me of daily life in the city. Like the Internet, art evades censorship.”

– “Scenes of Daily Life in the De Facto Capital of ISIS”  Vanity Fair

art by Molly Crabapple. Words by an anonymous Syrian.