Samantha Appleton
Iraqi Army Soldier on Patrol, Tal Afar, Iraq, c.2000

Samantha Appleton
Tea Shop Dominoes, Amara, Iraq, c.2000

Jean Salze
Communist inspired riot in Saigon, Vietnam, 1951

Ashley Gilbertson
Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell – 20, was killed by a suicide bomber on February 7, 2007 in Anbar Province Iraq. She was born in Bel Air, Maryland, 2012

Ashley Gilbertson
Cpl. Christopher G. Scherer – 21, was killed in a sniper attack on July 21, 2007 in Kamah, Iraq. He was from East Northport, New York, 2012

Ashley Gilbertson
Cpl. Thomas M. Gilbert – 24, was killed by an IED attack on October 25, 2006 in Falluja, Iraq. He was from Downers Grove Illinois, 2012

Ashley Gilbertson
Iraqi’s attempt to extinguish a van that caught fire on Saadoun Street in Baghdad, Iraq on May 30, 2004

Ashley Gilbertson
Marines form Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment fire a rocket at a home they suspected insurgents were hiding in, deep within the neighborhood nicknamed “Queens” during the battle for Falluja, Iraq on November 13, 2004

Ashley Gilbertson
Marines run for cover after white phosphorus was accidentally fired at them by another company when Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th marine Regiment, was somehow mistaken for a band of insurgents in Falluja, Iraq on November 9, 2004

Samantha Appleton
Helicopter Shot Down, Falluja, Iraq, c.2000

Samantha Appleton
Praying in an Al Qaeda Safe House, Ramadi, Iraq, c.2000

Samantha Appleton
Weapons Cache Found, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, c.2000

Ashley Gilbertson
Soldiers from Red Platoon, 1-26 Infantry Company, 2nd BCT, 1st I. D. patrol Southern Samarra, Iraq on October 3, 2004. Civilians who venture outside carry prominent white flags to identify themselves as non-combatants.

Ashley Gilbertson
American soldiers rarely get a chance to study a dead Mahdi Army fighter. The insurgents usually duck in and out of soldiers’ lines of sight. The soldiers are curious to see the human face of their enemy, especially when they are dead. In accordance with the army policy, dead are left on the street for Iraquis to recover and bury. “They clean up their own,” said one soldier, Karbala, Iraq, 2004

Werner Bischof
Korea (from the Korean War), c.1954

Wayne Miller
Hiroshima, Japan, 1945

Stephanie Sinclair
Members of Charlie Company 1-505, 82nd Airborne, search a suspicious car during a mission to catch a Saddam loyalist in Fallujah, 2003-2006

Stephanie Sinclair
Soldiers from the 203rd Engineers, within the 1st AD, look for bodies at the site of an explosion at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. Twenty people were killed and the facility devastated in the unprecedented suicide attack against the world body, 2003-206

Stephanie Sinclair
Portrait of ‘the Swordsman’, an insurgent from Fallujah, who claims he is motived to kill American soldiers because of his belief in Islam. ‘the Swordsman’ earned his name for his role in cutting off the hands of those who disobeyed Saddam Hussein, 2003-2006

Stephanie Sinclair
Marzia Bazmohamed, 15, screams in pain while having her burns cleaned. This painful ritual was performed daily by the nurses until a new technique was shown to them by a French NGO, 2003-2005

Stephanie Sinclair
A rose is held up to the face of Rokhshana Rahimi who was near death at Herat Public hospital. Rokhshana set herself on fire when her husband, who left her to go to Iran 14 years earlier, demanded she return to him. She died in the hospital from her wounds. More than 700 women have set themselves on fire in Afghanistan in a desperate cry for help, 2003-2005

Stephanie Sinclair
Fauza Yusufzai sits naked while waiting for new dressings to be put on her burns. Faiqa denies burning herself on purpose, which is often the case for fear of being an embarrassment or being treated poorly by hospital staff, but relatives confirm that she self-immolated, 2003-2005

Stephanie Sinclair
Hatifa Kairkhowa helps move her sister Fatonah Kairkhowa for a cleaning. Fatonah, a school teacher, set herself on fire minutes after her husband tried to choke her to death. She endured 13 years of abuse even though they had a love marriage, 2003-2005

Stephanie Sinclair
Nurses change the dressings of the badly burned Rokhshana. The Afghan independent Human Rights Commission investigated her situation, but it was sadly too late, 2003-2005

Stephanie Sinclair
Female family members mourn over the body of Shakila Ramani. She left two young children behind, 2003-2005

Ashley Gilbertson
Falluja, Iraq, 2004

Vincent Cianni
JSB, Scranton, PA, (active duty, U.S. Army Reserves), 2010

Vincent Cianni
Victor Fehrenbach, Boise, ID, (Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, retired; successfully fought to keep his job after coming out publicly in 2009), 2011

Vincent Cianni
Leslie Moore, Baytown, Texas (25 years old, Seaman E6, U.S. Navy, honorable discharge: forced out under DADT), 2011

Vincent Cianni
Virgil Richard, Austin, Texas, (Brigadier General, U.S. Army, retired), 2010

Vincent Cianni
Nathanael Bodon, Marlboro, NY, (Private, U.S. Army Reserves, discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell), 2009

Vincent Cianni
Marquell Smith, Chicago, IL, (Corporal E4, U.S. Marine Corps, discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell), 2010

Vincent Cianni
Don Bramer, Washington, D.C., (Lieutenant (jg) O2, U.S. Navy, active duty; multiple deployments to the Middle East), 2011

Samantha Appleton
Ashura Parade Procession, Karbala, Iraq, c.2000

Samantha Appleton
Soldier on Patrol, Fallujah, Iraq, c.2000

Samantha Appleton
Iraqi Army Soldiers Receive Commendation, Tal Afar, Iraq, c.2000

Turkish Embassy Bombing Victim, Baghdad, Iraq, c.2000

Samantha Appleton
Ashura Massacre victim, Karbala, Iraq, c.2000

Samantha Appleton
Ambassador Paul Bremer in the Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, c.2000