Glad Tidings of Benevolence

Twenty years ago, Moises Saman was working in Iraq as a photojournalist during the US-led invasion and occupation. Glad Tidings of Benevolence combines his photographs taken during this period and the following years with disparate documentation and texts. Collectively, these materials raise questions about the complex representation of war, competing narratives and the truths buried within the clamour--at a time when the war begins to recede from global public memory.

Moises Saman is documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His work has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Guggenheim Grant for Photography, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund (2014), the Henri Nannen Preis (2014), the World Press Photo (2014), and Pictures of the Year International (2012, 2014, 2015). Saman is a regular contributor to The New Yorker Magazine, TIME Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, amongst other international publications