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Sean Smith in Iraq

Award-winning photographer Sean Smith has made regular visits to Iraq to document the war, both in pictures and in video
  • US soldiers arrive at the scene of a Bradley vehicle that has blown up

    Iraq 10 years on: a photographer's story - video

    Award-winning photographer Sean Smith describes the experience of being on the frontline in Iraq and explains why he was driven to return again and again

  • US troops return mortar fire in Iraq's triangle of death

    The human heart of the matter

    As bestselling reporter Sebastian Junger's account of his year spent with US forces in Afghanistan joins other first-rate books about contemporary conflicts, novelist Geoff Dyer argues that recent reportage trumps fiction in its characterisation, observation and narrative drive

  • Sean Smith in Baghdad

    Award-winning Guardian photographer Sean Smith in Baghdad

    An overview of award-winning Guardian photographer Sean Smith's work in Iraq to date

  • Endgame in Iraq

    Sean Smith spent two months with the 101st Airborne in Baghdad during the dog days of the American occupation. He filmed heavy fighting with the Mahdi army in Sadr City and Shulla, and powerful unmediated testimony from soldiers openly critical of the occupation
  • American soldiers  remove mortars from a cache in Shulla

    101st Airborne division patrol Baghdad

    Sean Smith patrols Baghdad's Shulla district with the US army's 101st Airborne division and Iraqi soldiers
  • American troops from the 101st Airborne Division search a house in Baghdad

    Sean Smith in Baghdad

    Guardian photographer Sean Smith is currently embedded with the US army's 101st Airborne Division. Here are a selection of his latest images

  • Soldiers shaving

    Iraq: On Sadr City's frontline

    Sean Smith shares his latest images taken while embedded with the US 2nd Brigade Strykers in Sadr City, Iraq
  • Iraq: Five years in photos

    The Guardian's Sean Smith witnessed the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and has visited frequently since then. Here he talks about some of the pictures that encapsulate five years of war
  • Inside the surge: the provinces, Iraq

    Earlier this summer, Guardian photographer Sean Smith spent almost two months embedded with US forces in Iraq. This film shows that despite President Bush's claims of increased Iraqi cooperation in Anbar, there is still great fear and hostility against US troops
  • Inside the surge

  • Inside the surge, part 2

  • American soldiers with an injured Iraqi

    Inside the surge

    The Guardian's Sean Smith spent two months with the US army during the recent 'surge'
  • Baghdad's frontline

    Eyewitness: Baghdad

    Sean Smith spent two weeks with the US army's rapid reaction Stryker units witnessing the daily horror of life on Baghdad's frontline
  • 'The Bradley, upside down, was on fire. Seven died'

    Soldiers were talking to residents when we heard gunfire and an explosion.
  • explosion in Iraq

    Sean Smith in Iraq

    Guardian photographer Sean Smith is embedded with the US military in Iraq. The pictures here were taken as the troops he is attached to were called to the site of an explosion - an improvised explosive device (IED) that had destroyed an armoured vehicle
  • Life in the 'triangle of death'

  • American soldiers from Charlie Company

    Sean Smith in Iraq May 2007

  • Up close: the reality of Iraq's hidden war

    Sean Smith on his time embedded with the US army in Iraq.
  • Diary of a war photographer

    Guardian staff photographer Sean Smith describes his experience of documenting the conflict in Iraq.
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