Susan Meiselas USA. New York City. September 11, 2001. An amateur photographer on Church Street captures the collapse of Tower 2, the South Tower, of the World Trade Center at 9:55 a.m. Tower 1, the North Tower, (...)
still standing here, collapsed at 10:29 a.m. Seven World Trade Center, the 47-story building seen immediately in front of Tower 1, collapsed at 5:25 p.m. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Susan Meiselas USA. New York City. September 11, 2001. As pedestrians watch from Church Street, Tower 2 of the World Trade Center, the South Tower, collapses at 9:55 a.m. Tower 1, the North Tower, still standing (...)
here, collapsed at 10:29 a.m. Seven World Trade Center, the 47-story building seen immediately in front of Tower 1, collapsed at 5:25 p.m. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Iraq. Najaf. August 28, 2004. A civilian lies wounded on a street full of abandoned sandals as the shooting continues. Thousands of supporters of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani are converging on Najaf (...)
after calls from their leader to do so in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis in Najaf where Mehdi Army militia forces loyal to radical cleric Shia Moqtada Sadr are beseiged in the holy shrine. More outbreaks of violence flared outside Najaf when Iraqi police opened fire on a group of Sistani's followers, killing 15. Witnesses reported that the Iraqi national guards opened fire, fearing attack, as supporters passed a military base on the road between Kufa and its twin city Najaf. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Iraq. Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. 04/09/03. Men, women and boys cheering in the streets of Irbil, celebrating "The end of the Saddam HUSSEIN Regime".They wave Kurdish, PUK and US flags, pictures of Kur (...)
dish leaders Mustafa BARZANI and Masood BARZANI. Television stations interrupted programs on to show the same pictures of jubilant Iraqis destroying monuments of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
silently outside each
house. A soldier kicked in the door and stood aside. The others entered with weapons raised,
scanning the room rapidly with their flashlights and yelling commands in English and broken
Arabic. A young family had been sleeping, and the dirt floor was a tangle of blankets and thin
mattresses. A soldier grabbed the Iraqi closest to the door and shoved him against the wall,
forcing his arms behind his back. As he held his prisoner there, the soldier complained that the
scene was bound to be misrepresented by a photograph taken out of context. A second Iraqi
awoke with a start and fumbled for something under the blanket. Hawk, the unit’s Kurdish
interpreter, took several long steps and punched him sharply in the face, dazing him. Another
soldier slammed him to the ground. A search of the compound turned up a cache of weapons
and explosive materials. Three men were detained. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael Iraq. Taji Airbase, Baghdad. January 2005. Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse trial on TV. Embedded with the 44th Medical Command US Army. 86th CASH (Combat Support Hospital) in the Green Zone and 50th Med (...)
ical Command of 101st Airborne Division Medevac. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael USA. NYC. 2014. A display at the 9/11 museum at Ground Zero in New York. The museum walks a difficult line, trying to make a “neutral accounting” out of one of the most politicized events in histor (...)
y. For my taste, the displays are too light on the context that led to the tragedy and chaos that followed. 9/11 was the beginning of an entirely new era of global history and had a clear historical lineage. To largely ignore that history and all that followed is to do a disservice to a museum’s purpose. Though it has been widely praised for its sober display of the events of the day, there has been controversy as well, especially surrounding the gift shop, which sells coffee cups, toys, silk scarves, hoodies, key chains, charms, cheese plates, etc. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos