Iraq War: A Photographer Aims to Understand What Happened | Time.com

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How One Photographer Aims to Make Sense of the Iraq War

In the documentary ‘Shooting War,’ Franco Pagetti looks back on his work in Iraq

via Time: http://time.com/4758416/iraq-war-franco-pagetti/

More than a movie about Italian photographer Franco Pagetti’s work, the short documentary Shooting War (23 minutes) is a lesson in practicing critical visual literacy. Beyond the photographer himself, several people chime in, including Alice Gabriner, International Photo Editor at TIME who assigned the VII photographer to cover the war in Iraq from 2003 until the end of 2008, and Sara Farhan, a History Ph.D. candidate at York University in Toronto