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The Legacy of the Iraq War: Two Photographic Perspectives

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Moises Saman Iraqi civilians fleeing the fighting in the western side of Mosul gather at an Iraqi Army position on the outskirts of the city. Mosul, Iraq. March 8, 2017 © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Iraqi civilians fleeing the fighting in the western side of Mosul gather at an Iraqi Army position on the outskirts of the city. Mosul, Iraq. March 8, 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Iraqi civilians fleeing the fighting in the western side of Mosul gather at an Iraqi Army position on the outskirts of the city. Mosul, Iraq. March 8, 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Iraqi civilians fleeing the fighting in the western side of Mosul gather at an Iraqi Army position on the outskirts of the city. Mosul, Iraq. March 8, 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Wind blows discarded plastic bags on the edge of the vast Wadi al-Saalam cemetery. Najaf, Iraq. August 21, 2010. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Mosul, Iraq. March 8, 2017.

Iraqi civilians fleeing the fighting in the western side of Mosul gather at an Iraqi Army position on the outskirts of the city.

(Photo by Moises Saman/MAGNUM) © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael Bullet holes in a wall after a deadly raid. Alpha Company of 1-17, 172nd Stryker Brigade was on a joint all-night operation to search ten houses. I was down the street with the company commander (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Mosul. 2006. I was sleeping in a nearby Army base when the echo of an explosion from Mosul startled me awake. I walked over to the motor pool as a column of Stryker armored vehicles rolled i (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Dohuk. 2015. An NPU (an Assyrian Christian political party) training course for the senior Non Commission Officers of their small militia. The training is being conducted by 'James,' a forme (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Rawa. 2006. Sergeant Jackson rested in the living room while his platoon searched the rest of the house for a suspected insurgent. They found nothing suspicious, and the commander assumed he (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Mosul. 2017. Administration officials outside of a destroyed building of Mosul University after it was destroyed and set on fire by airstrikes and fleeing ISIS fighters. Parts of the univers (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Baghdad. 2006. Sergeant Jeff Reffner after being injured by an IED. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael A teenager stopped for suspicious behavior in Rawa, a violent Sunni town in Anbar Province near the Syrian border. He had scowled at a passing Stryker column. One of the gunners yelled for the co (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Mosul. 2006. An American medic treats a civilian wounded by the explosion of a roadside bomb that had just missed our patrol. The man had been driving with his wife and brother in an old hat (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ (Kurdistan). Erbil. 2017. The EMERGENCY NGO hospital in Erbil which treats casualties from the battle of Mosul. A man badly injured by shrapnel to the eyes in Mosul waits for a taxi after bei (...)
Peter van Agtmael This boy, temporarily deranged by the sudden violence, leaped at an American soldier. His face was smashed by a rifle butt, his hands were tied, and he was forced to kneel against the wall. As th (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Outside Mosul. 2006. Soldiers raided a hamlet on the outskirts of Mosul after midnight on a winter weekend. Iraqi soldiers guarded the perimeter while a line of American soldiers moved up (...)
Peter van Agtmael A portrait of a young Yazidi girl. Bashiqa, Iraq. 2017. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael Inside a building allegedly set on fire by ISIS. Qaraqosh, Iraq. 2017. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Baqofa. 2015. A Dwekh Nawsha Assyrian Christian militia unit at their frontline emplacement facing ISIS. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Bartella. 2017. The skeleton of an ISIS fighter locals called "The Emir," a man from the town who terrorized the populace. He was allegedly found hiding as ISIS fled and killed and hung from (...)
Peter van Agtmael Living quarters at Camp Liberty, a massive American base in west Baghdad. Baghdad, Iraq. 2010. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael A Dwekh Nawsha Assyrian Christian militia unit at the front lines helps resettle to a house near their barracks the last residents of Telskuf, three elderly women who have refused to leave and live (...)
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Baghdad. 2010. Local Sheikhs arrive at the handover of a neighborhood from the Americans to the Iraqi Army. The ceremony included the presentation of captured weaponry and a hand-to-hand com (...)
Peter van Agtmael The Emergency NGO hospital in Erbil which treats casualties from the battle of Mosul. Elham, 10, blast injury sharped penetrated abdomen and femur. She is playing with an Italian nurse who tried to (...)
Peter van Agtmael The wary inhabitants of this isolated village in Nineveh had never seen an American patrol, and asked what country they were from. They had heard of America, and served sugary tea to the soldiers (...)