Iraq - Perspectives

TIME Magazine editors voted Iraq | Perspectivesas one of the best photography books of 2011 "The smooth, black, hard cover consists of two separate projects shot in Iraq, where Mr. Lowy spent years documenting the war for various news outlets...the cool detachment of the photographs seems appropriate" Jonathan Blaustein, APhotoEditor.com "The publication of Iraq | Perspectives recognises Lowy as the winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition, judged this year by William Eggleston. The printing is excellent and most of the 96 pictures run full bleed. Lowy's use of light and colour comes through more effectively here than in online presentations of the same images. The book brings yet another dimension to these pictures, placing them in a visual narrative that gives the work even more power." Leo Hsu, Foto8 "It is an important, memorable and arresting photobook, and for all these reasons I'm left rather without anything to say. This book is hard for me to talk about simply because the work speaks so extraordinarily well for itself." Sarah Bradley, Photo-Eye "Benjamin Lowy's Iraq | Perspectives is a worthy recipient of the Honikmen First Book Prize in Photography competition judged this year by William Eggleston... Straddling the line between art and photojournalism, Lowy depicts both the US presence in Iraq as well as everyday Iraqi experience by "shooting" through Humvec reinforced windows and military-issue night vision goggles... A powerful visual narrative of the horrors of war." Hotshoe, February 2012 "Lowy's photos are unmistakably scenes from Iraq - ruined buildings, street vendors, kids with missing limbs, billboards for newly minted cellphone services. In Lowy's images, we see daily life returning to this country, but the children shown have known little but this forlorn landscape. Dreariness is all. The most original component of Lowy's book is the thematic divisions. The first part consists of images