Iraqi Photographers Captured the Costs of War

Many of the most dramatic images of the Iraq war were made by Iraqi photographers who risked life and limb. They set out to document what many hoped would be its rebirth, and kept shooting what they realized was its dissolution.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/iraqi-photographers-captured-the-costs-of-war/?pagewanted=all

In my mind’s eye, there is a perpetually revolving carousel of images that define the Iraq war. Many of them I saw in person. But many I did not.

A pool of red, bloody water reflects passers-by with the precision of a mirror. Crushed plastic bottles float on the unruffled surface. That photograph was taken by Ahmad al-Rubaye, a former carpenter and wedding photographer, at the scene of a bombing.