Autumn 2007. I was offered to go and photograph a batalion of Kurd soldiers in the Iraqi army. I had 48 hours to decide whether I wanted to go or not .
I went. There, a friend of mine gave me his old Hi8 video camera, with ten tapes. I am a photographer, I have never shot with a video camera. I have never seen the war. For one month, I stayed with the soldiers, and I shot their daily life. The waiting, the tension, the dead times, the endless crossings of this city, looking for never-to-be-found terrrorists.
Project and translation : Bakhtiyar Abdullah Haddad
Mixing : Gil Savoy
Editing : Jeremy Gravayat
Story : Paolo Verzone
Refugees in Yemen
Story : Massimo Berruti
Pakistan : The IDPs Drama (the Swat Valley)
VU' on the Web : Christian Poveda
Buy or offer a collection print!
Each week, on Friday at 1pm, mediapart.fr and Agence VU offer the work of a photoreporter.
A portfolio of 12 to 20 pictures is available for online sale. (website in french)
Paolo Verzone went to Yemen in March 2009 to document the situation of the Somalian refugees.
Leaving a...