Franco Pagetti
Franco Pagetti has covered the conflict in Iraq since January 2003, three months before the start of the war. Since then, he has almost constantly...
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on 15 December 2010
By agreeing to be a part of a new government it appears that Ayad
Allawi has removed the last major obstacle to Prime Minister Nuri
Kamal al-Malik's formation of a new government, something he must
do by law before Dec. 25. With this in mind we thought it would be
interesting to look at Franco Pagetti's series of black & white
portraits that capture the faces of ordinary Iraqis in Baghdad - a
butcher, a tea seller, a fishmonger, a baker, a shoe shiner et al -
trapped amidst the violence, politics and suicide bombings that
have become an almost weekly occurrence in the capital. They are
the lucky ones - The Survivors.