P04237.004
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial licensed copyright
- ID number
- P04237.004
- Photographer
- Gittoes, George
- Object type
- Colour - Film original negative 35mm
- Place made
- Iraq: Baghdad
- Date made
- 27 October 2003
- Copyright holder
- Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd
- Copying provision
- Copy provided for personal non-commercial use
- Copyright details
- Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd, PO Box 2 Bundeena, NSW 2230, Australia
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- The bombed site of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Baghdad, following the car-bomb attack of 27 October 2003. American soldiers and civilians examine the rubble; to the left, a digger is being used to sort through the debris. The Red Cross emblem is visible on a banner in a wall in the centre of the picture. The attack represented the first time a suicide bomber had struck the international aid agency in its 140-year history. Australian artist George Gittoes had been on his way to the building to pick up a satellite phone when the blast occurred. He said of the attack that, 'it was the day humanitarianism became a target - absolute ground zero for the human spirit'.
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