Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War

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Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War

“From the American invasion of Iraq nine years ago this spring through occupation and the official end of the U.S. mission last December, a generation of…

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/generation-iraq-americas-war-and-the-photographers-who-covered-it.html?currentPage=all

On Wednesday, Shapiro will moderate “Generation Iraq: Journalists Confront America’s War,” a conversation among five reporters at Columbia University. Among them will be the photographers Ashley Gilbertson, who worked in Iraq from 2002 until 2008, and Peter van Agtmael, who has been documenting America’s war and its consequences since 2006. Here’s a selection of van Agtmael and Gilbertson’s photographs from war, and its chilling reverberations back home.