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Baghdad
Photograph by Moises Saman
Fire Station: Saman, a Spanish photographer, has traveled to Iraq a dozen times on assignment for the New York Times and other newspapers. In the days immediately following the U.S. invasion, Saman came upon a burning gas station, engulfed in black fumes. "People must have gone in, lit a fire, and it just exploded." There he found an American soldier standing on a vehicle and "just yelling at people to get back, trying to return the place to some order.… No one was really in charge," he recalls.
Citat:Baghdad
Photograph by Moises Saman
Life Goes On: Saman captured this indelible image of man and war, coexisting, during a walk through Baghdad's impoverished and violent al-Waziriya neighborhood. The smoldering remains of U.S. military Humvees that had been attacked by insurgents threw up dark clouds against the sky. And then a man in a clean suit ambled by carrying a briefcase. "This guy walked past, and I thought it was a real scene of how life just goes on in Baghdad," he says. "Even in war zones, people have to manage their daily lives."
Citat:AVGANI, IRAQ
Photograph by Thomas Dworzak
Upon Reflection: Dworzak shot this photo of a soldier in silhouette in the Iraqi village of Avgani, near the Syrian border. Iraq National Guard troops and police officers were patrolling the town in advance of national elections when insurgents started firing on them, pinning them down in a two-hour firefight in the neighborhood they had just visited. The spray-painted graffiti on this house reads, "For sale."
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