Iraq: A War

Risking their lives, intrepid journalists and photographers have labored in often desperate conditions to bring images of war-torn Iraq to the rest of the world. Since no war in US history has had more carefully managed press coverage than this one, their more controversial and moving efforts have gone largely unreported in the US. Here are the pictures Americans have not An Iraqi boy trying to study with a bandaged eye; the bullet-riddled tail of a Red Crescent vehicle; American soldiers and Iraqi citizens alike praying; mass graves, brothers kneeling over dead brothers. Each picture suggests the world and lives beyond the edges of the frame; together they begin to show the true face of the US occupation of Iraq.