Glad Tidings of Benevolence Edition:Signed they let me photograph them

they let me photograph them

Objects are animated by a lifeforce that is nothing other than the death of beings

A personal chronicle of post-9/11 America

the book grapples with my own role and power as a narrator – particularly one with access to foreign publications – and the biases and limitations inevitably embedded in my work

Glad Tidings of Benevolence Edition:Signed they let me photograph themPublished to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the US led invasion of Iraq, Glad Tidings of Benevolence brings together Moises Samans photographs taken in Iraq during this period and the following years, with documents and texts relating to the war. Exploring the constructionthrough image and languageof competing narratives of the war, the book represents the culmination of Samans twenty years of work across Iraq. My photographs are not