‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’ – The Washington Post

Perspective | ‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’

Moises Saman’s new book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” attempts to unwind 20 years of covering war in Iraq.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2023/09/27/this-work-is-haunting-haunted-by-ghosts-history-its-casualties/

Photographer Moises Saman’s book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” (GOST, 2023) starts off with this banger of a quote from Walter Benjamin: “To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was.’ It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”