After the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept into his town nearly three years ago, Mustafa al-Taee resolved to bear witness to the militants' brutal rule by secretly painting what he had seen with his own eyes. The result was a gallery of horrors: car bombs, dead children, an ISIS defector beheaded in […]
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With latest exhibition, The Graham Foundation explores Iraq’s modernization period
Every Building in Baghdad explores the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji through his own photographs and building documents. Curated by Mark Wasiuta, the show was originally produced for the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Chadirji was an important cultural figure in Iraq though its modernization […]
Photographers bear witness in Iraq
A handful of photographers showed up at the Baghdad airport last Thursday for a forlorn ceremony marking the end of the Iraq war. It seemed a fitting end — both for the military and the photojournalists — to a war that began eight years ago with “shock and awe,” and an enormous attendant gallery of […]