Susan Meiselas USA. New York City. September 11, 2001. Pedestrians on Church Street run from falling debris as Tower 2, the South Tower, of the World Trade Center 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
Peter van Agtmael Afghanistan. Jalalabad. 2007. Lieutenant Erik Malmstrom turns away from photographs of three of his soldiers killed in a
Taliban ambush in the Waigul Valley on August 11, 2006. By the end of the d (...)
eployment
Malmstrom’s brigade had lost more men than any single unit in Afghanistan since the war began. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael Iraq. Mosul. 2006. American soldiers on a foot patrol noticed that two young men were eying them and fidgeting. Anticipating violence, they stormed their house. During the search the soldiers tease (...)
d a young medic about his virginity. The soldiers had already searched hundreds of houses during their deployment, and the banter was casual as they swept the family’s possessions onto the floor.nIn the next room they were questioning a boy. “Have there been any new faces around the house lately?” “Are your brothers coming and going at strange hours?” The boy muttered noncommittal
answers and stared at the ground. They found no contraband in the house, but the hands of
the young men came up with a faint residue of explosives. The lieutenant in charge of the platoon decided to detain them, though he thought they were innocent. The explosives tests were notoriously unreliable. They were blindfolded, and their hands bound with zip ties. The rest of the family began screaming and beating their chests. The soldiers locked them in a room and pushed the two stumbling men toward the Stryker. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Syria. Semalka Border. Rojava. Torin Khairegi, 18, in Zinar base.
"I joined YPJ about seven months ago, because I was looking for something meaningful in my life and my leader [Ocalan] showed me (...)
the way and my role in the society. We live in a world where women are dominated by men. We are here to take control of our own future. We are not merely fighting with arms; we fight with our thoughts. Ocalan's ideology is always in our hearts and minds and it is with his thought that we become so empowered that we can even become better soldiers than men. When I am at the frontline, the thought of all the cruelty and injustice against women enrages me so much that I become extra-powerful in combat. I injured an ISIS jihadi in Kobane. When he was wounded, all his friends left him behind and ran away. Later I went there and buried his body. I now feel that I am very powerful and can defend my home, my friends, my country, and myself. Many of us have been matryred and I see no path other than the continuation of their path." © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos