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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 100 Photographs: Tragedy in Iraq [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Photographs: Tragedy in Iraq](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EnQVPE0R.m3u8) (5:39)  _Published 2015-10-06. Chris Hondros’ photograph of a 5-year-old girl covered in her parents’ blood brought the plight of the Iraq War’s civilian casualties to America’s attention, and the world’s_ --- Jul 27, 2023 6:52 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [100 Photographs: Dali Atomicus](/video/c7yPeZ12/) ### 100 Photographs: Dali Atomicus [Chris Hondros: Behind the Photograph](/video/9az5vwxp/) ### Chris Hondros: Behind the Photograph [Tragedy in Marjah, Witness to a Civilian Casualty](/video/GHeyGIo2/) ### Tragedy in Marjah, Witness to a Civilian Casualty --- ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] In January 2005, actually, it was inauguration week. George Bush was about to be inaugurated. Chris was in a little town called Tal Afar, Iraq, working in embed force. He'd been there multiple times, it seemed like an ordinary embed at the time. Chris called and I've been trying to remember exactly what he said to me because it seems so poignant. But I for the life of me can't remember exactly what his words were. But, I remember that I immediately broke out into a sweat thinking about what it meant to have those photographs as he described them to me. [ MUSIC ] He understood the importance of those images, immediately he understood what it meant to have captured what. Or to capture. [ MUSIC ] That unit had been in a firefight earlier that day, so maybe there had been a heightened level of alert anyways. They decided to do a patrol in the evening, and it was dark. And he described seeing lights in the distance, and the soldiers recognizing them as well. And the lights getting a little bit closer, and the soldiers starting to yell at them to stop. And Chris realizing that there was something going on. The car wasn't stopping, and he talks about the staccato firing of guns multiple times over and over again. And the car suddenly just kind of rolling to a stop against the curb. And then they hear the voices of children crying. And I think from that point it becomes kind of obvious to everyone what's happened. He talks about the soldiers opening the door Turns out to be these six children come out of the car in various states of shock, and screaming. The soldier's looking at the kids, and then Chris I think realizing the parents in the front seat, and he describes the bodies of the dead, Mr. Hassan and the Mom. And how the soldiers Found body bags, and removed the bodies. And moved the kids off to the side to check them. [ MUSIC ] Some of them are covered in blood. [ MUSIC ] One of them, Rakhan, the little boy, has an injury on his back. And so they check them. The soldiers then take the kids to the hospital in Tel Afar. Chris was surprised at how well equipped it was. [ MUSIC ] The commander of the unit told the soldiers to make sure that the kids didn't see the parents. They had enough for one night. Chris's photographs appeared everywhere the next day. He had to take a breath a go boy, stuff's gonna happen because of these pictures. These are not ordinary photographs from Iraq. This is not what people are used to seeing from that place. This is going to make people stop. They were the first set of images from Iraq that really Showed something like that. That showed that personal cost of war in such a direct, horrific, retching way. I think it's those kind of photographs demand and command attention. And he was a journalist. As an editor Feel a duty to make sure that those photographs live a big life [ UNKNOWN ] that they're seen and shared and spoken about. The iconic image that came out of that shooting that Chris was able to capture was the little girl [ UNKNOWN ] We learned her name later. We learned that she was five years old. But that photograph, as anonymous as she is at that moment, I think everybody identifies her immediately. [ MUSIC ] Here's a blood splattered little girl, crouched next to the boots of a tall US soldier. And people have sited things like the stark lighting which is sort of reminiscent of schools of painting, and the streaks of blood on her cheeks which reminded some people of crucifixion imagery, tears of blood. We share a huge visual memory bank mostly through painting and other images in history, and. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond. [ MUSIC ] I think the history for that moment, and for that war, and for everyone's actions in it are still being written. That moment will be used and extrapolated to make bigger points. Now that's what history sometimes does with pictures. It's not just about the picture, it's about something grander. 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