In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to
Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and
living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. These visions of
western soldiers at rest in imperial palaces are both intensely
jarring and oddly playful, and they underscore the seemingly ineffable
experience of downtime during a military occupation. The
transformation of an imperial palace into a site of temporary housing
also speaks to the notion that our histories are constantly being
rewritten. architect urally, sociologically, globally, and locally.
What follows is a selection from Richard Mosse's "Breach."
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