Alexandre Sarlin Photography

Baghdad, Red Zone

NOVEMBER 2008 - Being in the Green Zone in Baghdad provides a limited possibility to meet regular Iraqi people. You need to enter the Red Zone, term applied to most of the rest of Baghdad, and one of the most dangerous places on earth... Baghdad is divided in 9 admistrative districts and in 457 distinct neighborhoods.

Sunrise on Baghdad. The Sinak bridge and the Al-Jumhuriya bridge over the Tigris river.
   
The Sinak bridge between the Western shore (Karkh) and the Eastern shore (Al-Rasafa) of the Tigris river.
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
The Hewar Art Gallery in Wazerya district. Founded by Qasim Al-Sabti in 1992, the place is an important and active oasis for Iraqi artist.
   
Hiwar Gallery coffee shop, Wazerya area.
   
     
  
Karradah district.
   
Karradah district.
   
Teenagers in Karradah district.
     
  
Fish shop in Karradah district.
   
  
Ali, shopkeeper of electric supplies in Karradah district.
     
  
   
Iraqi soldiers at the gate of Sadr city, Baghdad.
   
     
  
Kahramana Square in Karradah district, at the crossroads between Inner and Outer Karradah.
   
  
The Al-Nida mosque in the northern Baghdad Sunni district of Adhamiya. The mosque was a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency.
     
  
Market place protected by T walls.
   
  
     
  
   
Conflict doesn't stop Iraqi tradition of fish grilling: Mazgouf.