Three Pictures of Life Near Sadir's New Wall

by Mikasi | June 17, 2008 at 05:38 am | 341 views | 1 comment

Three Pictures of Life Near Sadr City's New Wall by Zoriah

We are on a mission in Sadr City to inspect some of the checkpoints along the newly completed wall. The first part of the mission brings us to the infamous Jamilla Market, an outdoor stretch of shops and home to some of the worst fighting in the entire war. The market suffered heavily. Shop owners are now facing repairs that they could never possibly afford, and it has made an impossible situation even worse for many.

Zoriah is a photographer I view with a little regularity and a lot of envy. He travels all over hells and back (hells, because human and natural disasters have spawned more than just one).

I don't want to violate his copyright so I can't drop his photos in here. But I can suggest you visit the link and travel with him to Iraq and China to monsoon and earthquake.

Perhaps this isn't news in the strickest sense - after all who among us doesn't know the name of Sadir-city? But the upclose and personal that this photographer gives us is new. And it is a view not usually dwelt upon on the evening news.

It's well worth getting acquainted with.