To celebrate the publication of his new book, IRAQ: The Space Between, Digital Railroad member Christoph Bangert will be exhibiting a selection of his images providing an uncensored look at the impact of war on the daily lives of Iraqi's and the communities they live in.

Exhibition Opening and Book Launch will be held November 15, 2007 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
at the Redux Gallery 116 East 16th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10003.

From Christoph's website: "During the America-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Christoph Bangert was still attending photography school. Only later in the spring of 2005, when Iraqi insurgency and sectarian violence reached its first peak, Westerners were kidnapped and beheaded, and most foreign journalists had left the country, did this intrepid photographer start to work in Iraq on assignment for the New York Times. The overtly hostile environment in Iraq for foreigners, without regard of the individual’s intention or affiliation, restricts the freedom of journalists, particularly photographers, who (unlike writers) must be physically present to get the story.

Despite these conditions, Bangert remained in Iraq as one of the few Western photographers committed to cover the war throughout 2006 and early 2007. He has worked largely independently from the military, using Iraqi guards, drivers, and translators, but was occasionally embedded with American, British and Iraqi forces. Iraq: The Space Between records the distance he traveled as a civilian between worlds committed to destruction in the name of freedom."

You can see more of Christoph's powerful work on his DRR archive.