Marieke van der Velden in de New York Times

Het gaat goed met de serie Baghdad Today waar jullie al eerder over berichten, want gisteren stond er een artikel over op de Lens Blog van New York Times, wat n hele eer is.

Op mijn website zie je de hele serie;

Samen met journalist Paulien Bakker ben ik bezig met het maken van een boek.

Paulien Bakker; "As the Allied Forces are withdrawing at the end of the month, journalist Paulien Bakker and photographer Marieke van der Velden went back to Baghdad together to report on daily life. How does life look like in Baghdad without the presence of American forces? We noticed that Iraq is so much more than what we see of it in the newspapers and on television. The media focuses exclusively on men with rifles in pickup trucks and bomb blasts. But when you turn the camera just a quarter, you will see that despite the violence and the presence of foreign troops, life goes on.

The pictures show a much neglected side of Baghdad - they show a remarkable, inspiring resilience".