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 United States. Now, here
are the pictures Americans have not seen: 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; babies in coffins; bloody body parts kept on
ice. Each picture suggests the world and lives beyond the
edges of the frame; together they show the true face of the
US occupation of Iraq.
The Associated Press staff was
recognized by the 2005 Pulitzer Prize "for its stunning
series of photographs of the bloody yearlong combat inside
Iraqi cities." Whether they set their sights on triumphant
US soldiers relaxing in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces or
on the injured Iraqi woman whose ambulance they shared,
these photographers have brought home the horror and fear of
war, and the reminder that we are all flesh and blood.
The Associated Press photographers featured include:
Mohammad Adnan, J. Scott Applewhite, Jean-Marie Bouju,
Gregorio Borgia, David Cheskin, Dan Chung, Pier Paolo Cito,
D. Myles Cullen, Bassem Daham, Saurabh Das, Jerome Delay,
Kevin Frayer, Sergie Grits, David Guttenfelder, Bilal
Hussein, Nabil al-Jurani, Karim Kadim, Saeed Khan, Wathiq
Khuzaie, Sasa Kralj, Brennan Linsley, Efrem Lukatsky, Jim
MacMillan, Hussein Malla, Alaa al-Marjani, Jon Mills,
Richard Mills, Hadi Mizban, Samir Mizban, Khalid Mohammed,
John Moore, Muhammad Muheisen, Tony Nicoletti, Anja
Niedringhaus, Kamal Osman, Andrew Parsons, Laura Rauch,
Laurent Rebours, Terry Richards, Ivan Sekretarev, Bassem
Tellawi, Mohammed Uraibi, Stefan Zaklin, and Alexander
Zemlianichenko.
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