Informal portrait of Australian artist and photo-journalist, George Gittoes, holding his digital ...

Informal portrait of Australian artist and photo-journalist, George Gittoes, holding his digital video camera, outside 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. The Red Cross emblem is visible on a banner attached to the crumbling brick wall. The attack represented the first time a suicide bomber had struck the international aid agency in its 140 year history. George Gittoes had been on his way to the building to pick up a satellite telephone 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'.