Friday, July 27, 2007

Inside the Surge: Video by Photographer Sean Smith (E)


Sean Smith / Guardian

The Guardian's award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith (2006 Britsh Press Photographer of the Year) spent two months embedded with US troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. His harrowing documentary exposes the exhaustion and disillusionment of the soldiers.
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I saw this piece on the CBC National news the other night. It is so difficult to watch and not feel anger to the core and ask for what.

In the World Press Photo exhibit this year, there is also a series of stills taken by Peter van Agtmael as he follows American soliders as they raid homes searching for insurgents.