Zohreh Soleimani - Photographer

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Iraq

  • Men they are drinking tea and chatting in Tea House in Najaf
  • Tea House men he is ready for his customer in the morning in Naseria
  • A man drinking Tea in Tea house in Ali Al Gharbi south of Iraq
  • Woman Sells Dates in the Bazar in Kut
  • Shrine of Ali in Najaf
  • Pilgrims at Ali's Shrine
  • Men and Women Chat Outside of Ali's Shrine
  • Shia Couple Praying at Shrine of Ali
  • Little Girl at Ali’s Shrine in Najaf
  • Old Tailor in a window in Najaf
  • Young Girl in Najaf
  • Najaf Cemetry
  • Shia Moslems Praying at the Shrine of Hosein in Karbala
  • The Dictator is Finished
  • Young Boys Having Fun
  • A Young Mother With Her Son Living in a Destroyed Military Base
  • A Mother with Her Son in a Military Base Somewhere Close to Basra
  • Boots Instead of Dicators
  • Kirkuk Oil Well
  • Fishing early Morning in Basra
  • Fishing in the Marshes
  • CIA Friend
  • A Shia Woman Sitting Inside her House in Naseria
  • Neighbors having a chat in Al Emare, south of Iraq
  • Playing with Weapons
  • A Mother Looking for the Remains of Her Son
  • Finding the Remains
  • Black Oil and Blood Remain of the Battle

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After the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2004, I went to Iraq to see the aftermath of the war. I made it to Baghdad and traveled from there to the south of the country as well as to the Kurdish area.

It was the time when the gigantic war machinery had come to a stand-still and it seemed as if the country took a deep breath. Looting took already place, but no organized insurgency had formed. People tried to sort out the nightmare they had just survived and struggled to form an idea how their future might look like.