"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
- Henry David Thoreau (via humanformat)
(Source: antisocial-socialist, via socialistscum)
I am Baghdad
I am often asked about my feelings regarding the war in Iraq. My response, inevitably, is reflective of my own experience growing up in Baghdad. I’m aware that other Iraqis hold different feelings based on their own backgrounds and socio-economical, religious and educational influences. In this series I attempt to convey those various feelings by placing myself in their shoes and walking their path.
I view the portraits as interviews, wherein Baghdad citizens express their feelings about post-occupation Iraq. The portraits are all tightly shot and so close-up that you have no choice but to listen to what they have to tell you. The faces are the same since they are united in nationality and under the same umbrella of circumstance. Yet each is representative of different slices of Baghdad’s social and political system.
The layers of calligraphy that are imposed on the faces express the individual feelings of each person. It is up to you to interpret those feelings.
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
― E.B. White"
- (via rebuild-the-american-dream)
(via oldenough2burmom)
