Faces of Iraq, 1991
Tina Manley | Baghdad, Iraq
Photographer: Tina Manley
Exhibit Title: Faces of Iraq, 1991
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
The Middle East has always fascinated me. I lived in Iran in the 1970’s and traveled throughout the area. The people and the countryside are among the most beautiful in the world. The Iranian Revolutions, the Iran-Iraq War and then the Gulf War seemed to put that part of the world off-limits for years. In 1991 the Gulf War had been over for 6 months and the UN Sanctions had been in place for over a year. Travel to Iraq by US citizen was forbidden by the US State Department to all but pre-approved groups of journalists. I was commissioned by the Iraqi Businessmen’s Association of Washington, DC, to travel to Iraq and photograph how the UN Sanctions were affecting the children of Iraq. I received permission to photograph children in hospitals, at work, and at school.
I don’t have any answers to the situation in Iraq, but I hope when you look at the photographs you will feel like you know the people of Iraq and know that we are all more alike than we are different.
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