Abu Ghraib photographer: Restoring dignity to detainees

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://www.bbc.com/news/29183096


Pictures from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were released in 2004 and shocked the world. Americans were shown holding prisoners on a leash and humiliating them.

For years those who were abused at the US-run detention facility at Abu Ghraib and in other parts of Iraq have remained faceless.

Now fashion photographer Chris Bartlett has taken portraits of these men and women and told their stories.

Photography, he says, was integral to the Abu Ghraib scandal.

[Mnemosyne]

1. We must never forget... nt

[gratuitous]

2. The detainees never really lost their dignity

The onus is 100% on their torturers, the people who ordered the torture, and the country that sanctioned the torture. Oddly enough, we don't seem too interested in restoring our own dignity.

[enough]

5. Well said, well said. (nt)

[Solly Mack]

10. What you said and said so well.

[closeupready]

3. K&R

[leftstreet]

4. DURec

Really cool and really sad at the same time

[proReality]

6. K&R

We need to remember what people associated with our government did.

[calimary]

7. Yes we do. And how they supposedly did it in OUR name, and for our own "good".

And with OUR money. USA!-USA!-USA!

We need to remember. And we need IN PARTICULAR to remember the parts we'd just as soon forget.

[Terra Alta]

8. K&R

These people are human beings who deserve dignity and respect. It's a shame what was done to them in our name.

[ReRe]

9. K&R for EXPOSURE!

If that debacle is ever put to film, Kevin Spacey would have to be cast as that second gentleman. Kathy Bates could portray the lady.

It's not over. It will never be over. And even though the Bush regime was never held accountable for the unjust invasion of Iraq and the many atrocities it wrought, the world knows. Thank you for this info, GWC.