A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images that Moved Them

[No1]

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I'm not going to post individual images, but people can if they want, just make sure to put spoilers on the graphic ones. It's from Times.com in the link above. It was sobering man. Reminds of my friends who came back from that who aren't normal anymore.

In the five years Baghdad was my home, I got to work (or just hang out) with some of the finest news photographers in the world: Yuri Kozyrev, Franco Pagetti, Kate Brooks, James Nachtwey, Robert Nicklesberg, Lynsey Addario, the late Chris Hondros… the list is as long as it is distinguished. Their immense talent and incredible bravery combined to make the Iraq war arguably the most exhaustively photographed conflict in human history. This selection doesn’t begin to capture the immensity of their collective achievement, but it is evocative of the horrors — and just occasionally, hope — they were able to chronicle.

As a correspondent, I was sometimes on the scene when an iconic image was captured: for instance, I had to keep ducking out of Kate Brooks’ field of vision in the aftermath of the Sept, 2003 bombing of the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. The scene was one of utter carnage, and I found myself putting aside my notebook to help dig survivors and bodies from the rubble. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Kate, standing perfectly still in the swirling chaos, her eye never moving from the viewfinder, capturing the moment. I have no idea how she kept her senses: I found myself frequently crying or vomiting. Afterward, she told me she was able to fight back any emotion precisely because her eye was glued to the viewfinder: the camera allowed her a sense of distance from everything around her.

Perhaps the secret of great photography lies in that ability to be simultaneously in the moment physically and removed from it by the camera. If that sounds coldly dispassionate, then I’m not describing it right, because war photographers are the most emotionally alert people I know. As these images will show, it is their ability to capture humanity in the most inhuman circumstances that makes them the best at their craft.

Bobby Ghosh is the editor of TIME International. Follow him on Twitter @ghoshworld.



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[newarkhiphop]

And no matter what this how you shall be remembered

 

[newworldafro]

I remember the lead up to this so clearly.........

-The protestors in the street telling you to honk your car horn for no war
-C. Powell talk about some type of dessert from Niger
-I believe that space shuttle crashed in Texas around this time too
-Etc

............10 years ago today.......

 

[profound]

C. Powell talk about some type of dessert from Niger

the yellow cake right

i always thought of yellow cake with chocolate frosting. any image in my mind of Powell at the UN, was followed by the image of that cake.

i wonder if Powell indeed ruined his legacy with that.

not if the war was truly needed imo. and i dont know enough to say that it wasnt.

last words of State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration:

Dreams die hard, but the dreams of the Bush administration died in places like Fallujah, Ramadi, and Tal Afar.

what could any coli iraq vets tells us about these battles? TUH, smokeurob.

as much as its a part of my history i need to learn more, mainly i remember hearing the bad reports one summer thinking ''why is it difficult now ''. thats a long way from just a few years before, learning about the misery of vietnam and being glad a situation like that, wasnt the present situation...

i been embraced it though, and obviously it didnt take 2003 to know...

Spoiler

 

[Shogun]

cool pic

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

my sister served in Iraq.

several human arms where found in the garbage on her base.

 

[OfTheCross]

if the news weren't so censored and actually showed how things were it would've ended much sooner

 

[Robbie3000]

fukk George W. Bush. I hope he never finds peace of mind and his soul is forever tormented by the ghosts of dead American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians.




That is all.

 

[88m3]

Crazy its been such a long time.



I wish the Sunni community the best.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

cool pic

edit: forget it, i actually read the transcription underneath the picture. I didn't realize it was about the sandstorm.

 

[NZA]

fukk George W. Bush. I hope he never finds peace of mind and his soul is forever tormented by the ghosts of dead American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians.




That is all.

that's definitely a fantasy. when you look at the face of bush, you see man that is well rested and happy with himself.

 

[88m3]

that's definitely a fantasy. when you look at the face of bush, you see man that is well rested and happy with himself.

You do?

 

[NZA]

You do?

yeah, he's got that "dumb dude dont care" look almost 90% of the time. now all he does is travel and dance with the locals in exotic places. goofing around, spending that halliburton money

 

[Malta]

Crazy how the decisions of so few people at the top can affect the lives of so many.

 

[88m3]

yeah, he's got that "dumb dude dont care" look almost 90% of the time. now all he does is travel and dance with the locals in exotic places. goofing around, spending that halliburton money

he always seemed distraught to me

Crazy how the decisions of so few people at the top can affect the lives of so many.

God told him