Together For a Better Iraq
An image worth a thousand word , or in iraq case tells a thousand story
Source: NYTimes:
Nearly nine years of war in Iraq have produced a growing cadre of world-class, homegrown Iraqi news photographers. Some started out with little technical knowledge but a strong desire to document their country’s experience. Within months, they were producing work that became increasingly crucial to the world’s understanding of Iraq. These are the stories of five of those photojournalists, with a sampling of their images.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/19/world/middleeast/20111219-iraqi-photographers.html
From NYTimes:
That was at the heart of the question that Andrea Bruce, a photographer, posed to the Iraqis she encountered as the war wound down. She and her local colleagues in The Times’s Baghdad bureau wondered, was there reason for optimism?
The answer — like so much in recent years — was complicated.
“There is a belief that Iraqis will be able to deal with and survive no matter what comes their way,” said Ms. Bruce, who has been photographing in Iraq for eight years. “Optimism about what lies ahead doesn’t exist. They’re pretty pessimistic. Politically, they’re worried.”
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/portraits-of-iraqi-pride/?src=tp
10 Iraqi fils (just few years old) which is about 0.000008554270373768155 US$ is being sold for 2500US$ as memorabilia!!
I am waiting for the "smarty" who will buy it
I dont even know what to say, but it seems to me that most solders are kids who assume war is more like a video game, they would shoot and then keep asking why those people are shooting at us. on the other hands Iraqis seems to expect American solders to fix everything for them. At the end of the day, many live lost for a decision made by 2 so called leaders who did not really respect these lives.
The Irony is that many of these stories are lost in a junkyard.
From NYTimes:
he documents ultimately led to a report that concluded that the Marine Corps’s chain of command engaged in “willful negligence” in failing to investigate the episode and that Marine commanders were far too willing to tolerate civilian casualties. That report, however, did not include the transcripts.
