Cultured Media

Gilbertson grapples with the day-to-day life in Baghdad–sniped soldiers and dog ravaged human carcasses. He does not condone torture, but states that it has saved lives in Iraq. He also worries that he only photographing the demise of the Iraqi state as it falls apart and into a civil war.

Award-winning photographer Ashley Gilbertson has spent much of the past five years in Iraq, taking incredible photographs for The New York Times and other publications. Born in 1978, Gilbertson has captured some of the world’s most dangerous places on camera. A book of his work, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War, will be published this fall.

Fresh Air Interview with Ashley Gilbertson

Since when did a debate become a boxing match? Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk and sometimes yell? about what they’ve learned in the last few years.
#333: The Center for Lessons Learned (1:15:27)

About halfway through is a debate between Saun Hannity and Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, that has the atmosphere of a boxing match with booing and interrupting. It saddens me.