PICTURES OF VICTIMS OF THE IRAQ WAR

In May 2003, I was in Iraq documenting the first civilian humanitarian aid mission to land in Baghdad. As part of my job, I photographed the delivery of supplies to several of the major hospitals in that city. During a tour of the wards, I photographed some victims of the war.

I have not shown these photographs until now because I do not like seeing victims—it causes stress to look at such pictures. But I ran into these photographs recently while selecting pictures for my on-line gallery and thought that I should no longer hold back because such images are of real people whose lives have been damaged forever and although it may not be pleasant for us or for them, maybe pictures such as these will play some small part in changing the sentiment of those who would make war.

I will just show two. One of a man and one of a woman.