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
