Iraq | Photojournalism | Iraq war photography

FALLUJAH, IRAQ - JULY 2006: US marines Homebe in Fallujah. Fallujah continues to be a symbol for the Iraqi resistance, and is the most insurgent-hit city of Iraq, full of destruction, dust, and dead. Since the major US troop operations in 2005, the daily lives of civilians and marines inside the city have become a fight to stay alive.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2007: US Army QRF inside their base before going out on patrol in Baghdad.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ - JULY 2006: US marines from Bravo Company on patrol in Fallujah. Fallujah continues to be a symbol for the Iraqi resistance, and is the most insurgent-hit city of Iraq, full of destruction, dust, and dead. Since the major US troop operations in 2005, the daily lives of civilians and marines inside the city have become a fight to stay alive.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ - JULY 2006: US marines from Bravo Company out on patrol in Fallujah. Fallujah continues to be a symbol for the Iraqi resistance, and is the most insurgent-hit city of Iraq, full of destruction, dust, and dead. Since the major US troop operations in 2005, the daily lives of civilians and marines inside the city have become a fight to stay alive.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ - JULY 2006: US marine Daniel E. Daugherty searches a house in Fallujah. Fallujah continues to be a symbol for the Iraqi resistance, and is the most insurgent-hit city of Iraq, full of destruction, dust, and dead. Since the major US troop operations in 2005, the daily lives of civilians and marines inside the city have become a fight to stay alive.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2007 An Iraqi police unit searching a house in their own Karrada neighborhood in Baghdad, with Bravo Company, 2nd Platoon of the 1st Calvary Division, from Fort Hood, Texas.

RAMADI, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2007 A checkpoint on the road into Ramadi from Baghdad. These Iraqi policemen are former members of a local Sunni militia in Ramadi.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2007: US army soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Platoon of the 1st Calvary Division, from Fort Hood, Texas.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ - JULY 2006: US marines from Bravo Company takes turns having their hair cut during their free time. Fallujah continues to be a symbol for the Iraqi resistance, and is the most insurgent-hit city of Iraq, full of destruction, dust, and dead. Since the major US troop operations in 2005, the daily lives of civilians and marines inside the city have become a fight to stay alive.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ - JULY 2006: The room of US marines from Bravo Company based in Fallujah. Fallujah continues to be a symbol for the Iraqi resistance, and is the most insurgent-hit city of Iraq, full of destruction, dust, and dead. Since the major US troop operations in 2005, the daily lives of civilians and marines inside the city have become a fight to stay alive.

RAMADI, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2007 Major Megan McLung, 43, from Coupeville, takes a photo of the son of one of the most important tribal families in Ramadi, a new ally of the US army in Ramadi. The new strategy for US troops is to create an alliance with the local Sunni tribal groups for the fight against Al Qaeda. One hour after this picture was taken, Major Megan McLung died in an ambush set up with an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), within this tribal ally's territory in Ramadi.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2006 Wounded soldiers arrive in the emergency room at the 28th CSH (Combat Support Hospital) known as 'China Dragon' in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2006 Doctors fighting to save the life of a soldier in the emergency room, at the 28th CSH (Combat Support Hospital) known as 'China Dragon', in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 2006 Nobody really knows how many people have died in Iraq since the beginning of the war. Seigtz, a soldier from 28 Combat Service Hospital (CSH), is in charge of taking the bodies from the hospital to checkpoint number 1 of the International Zone. This picture was taken during his first trip, and he said 'It was the hardest experience of my life, the smell of death was terrible.'

WASHINGTON DC - SEPTEMBER 2006 Arlington Memorial to the fallen soldiers in Iraq. In the middle of this photo is a portrait of Alexander Arreondo, who died in action, and is from a Latin American family. Many US families whose sons are in Iraq are against the war and the terrible conditions under which their sons are fighting and living. They want them to come back home.

WASHINGTON DC - SEPTEMBER 2006 Gilda Carbonaro visiting the grave of her son at Arlington cemetary, who died in Fallujah, in an IED attack. Many US families whose sons are in Iraq are against the war and the terrible conditions under which their sons are fighting and living. They want them to come back home.

WASHINGTON DC - SEPTEMBER 2006 A boy dressed up in a military outfit says the last goodbyes to the fallen soldiers of the war in Iraq, at a memorial in Washington DC. Many US families whose sons are in Iraq are against the war and the terrible conditions under which their sons are fighting and living. They want them to come back home.

Iraq After 9/11

The war over, the Saddam regime crumbled, America is now in charge of Iraq. The ethnic, religious and political diversity of the country is now bursting in the open. Most Iraqis knowledge – albeit grudgingly – their debt to the US for liberating them and giving them a future. But they also hold America responsible for this future. A host of problems have now to be resolved. Resistance to a prolonged US presence in the country has begun.