2007 Photo Contest, General News, 2nd prize
Photographer

Peter Agtmael

Polaris Images

03 March, 2006

A boy covers his grandmother's mouth during a raid. She had begun shouting and clawing at troops and had to be restrained by her family. American soldiers conduct night raids on homes in Iraq, searching for suspected insurgents. The raids, sometimes carried out in conjunction with Iraqi security forces, were a common occurrence as insurgency increased during the year.

About the photographer

Peter Agtmael

Peter van Agtmael (b. 1981) graduated from Yale University in 2003 with a degree in history. Following graduation, he spent a year in China on the Charles P. Howland fellowship p...

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