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Iraq
Christoph Bangert
其他書名
The Space Between
出版
PowerHouse Books
, 2007
主題
Photography / General
Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries
Photography / Photojournalism
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional
ISBN
1576874001
9781576874004
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OSMVAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
During the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Christoph Bangert was still attending photography school. Only later, in the spring of 2005, when the Iraqi insurgency and sectarian violence reached its first peak, Westerners were kidnapped and beheaded, and most foreign journalists had left the country, did this intrepid photographer start to work in Iraq on assignment for The New York Times. The overtly hostile environment in Iraq for foreigners, without regard for individual intentions or affiliations, restricts the freedom of journalists, particularly photographers, who (unlike writers) must be physically present in order to get the story. Despite these conditions, Bangert remained in Iraq as one of the few Western photographers committed to cover the war throughout 2006 and early 2007. He worked largely independently from the military, using Iraqi guards, drivers, and translators, but was also occasionally embedded with American, British, and Iraqi forces. IRAQ, THE SPACE BETWEEN records the distance he travelled as a civilian between worlds committed to destruction in the name of freedom.