Children of the Gulf War Photo Exhibit

Children of the Gulf War
Photo Exhibit

All photos are copyrighted by Takashi Morizumi

The exhibit includes approximately 30 photos taken by Takashi Morizumi since 1998. Some of these photos appear in the book Children of the Gulf War. You can read Takashi Morizumi's introduction to the book. The following are some of the photos from the exhibit:

*We have 10 new photographs by Takashi Morizumi titled "Children under the Air-strikes".
see some of them

Ameriya Shelter: A cruise missile hit the shelter on February 13, 1991. Hundreds people inside were killed. Many were children. The U.S. government claimed that it was a military facility. So-called pinpoint bombing often sacrificed innocent citizens. (Baghdad)

A Bedouin girl taking care of sheep in the pasture. From time to time sheep start writhing and die in agony. Sheep with five legs or with no head are sometimes born. This did not happen before the Gulf War.
(Demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait)

Christmas 2002. (Baghdad)

Saffa,8 years old, leaves the hospital today. She was forced to leave the hospital because the medicine needed for her treatment is no longer available. But she was only too happy to be going home.
(In the leukaemia ward of Mansour Teaching Children's Hospital, Baghdad)

Fadel, 7 years old, came from Basra, South of Iraq. Depleted uranium, with its metal poison and radiation, has damaged her liver and kidneys. A needle was injected into her body to draw out the abdominal dropsy. Her scream of pain was heard all over the hospital corridor.
(In the leukaemia ward of Mansour Teaching Children's Hospital, Baghdad)

Jawad has lost 550g in the four months since his birth. His parents were unable to buy milk for him. He suffered from heavy diarrhea due to malnutrition. The hospital had almost no antibiotics available. Babies with low resistance are highly susceptible to infectious disease. Many fail to escape death.
(The Ibngazuwan Hospital, Basra)

A new born with anencephaly. His shocked mother disappeared from the hospital. On the day, a baby with hydrocephalic was born. Some 3 percent of the newborn babies have congenital disorders. During one hour at the hospital that day, two babies with such disorders were born.
(Alwia Maternity Hospital, Baghdad)

A special cemetary for children was built after the Gulf War. A gravedigger told me that he dug four or five graves every day. In a neighboring square, children were playing football, shouting loudly with joy.
(Basra)

*We have 10 new photographs by Takashi Morizumi titled "Children under the Air-strikes".
see some of them