Photos revealing everyday life in Iraq. By Citizen Reporters

Photos revealing everyday life in Iraq, stories usually left untold. They form part of Geert van Kesteren's new book Baghdad Calling, but the photographer - author of Why Mister, Why? - didn't take any of them.

... Baghdad Calling is a collection of more than one hundred of these pixelated amateur images. Taken by Iraqis both living in and outside the war zone, it gives them a voice and allows them, for once, to take control of the narrative.

It also shows the importance of mobile phones in a country at war, in which utilities such as landlines have broken down and such phones are the best way to stay in touch with kidnappers - and coroners.

Since the end of Saddam Hussein's regime, the number of phone owners has jumped from 1.4 million to 7.1 million."

emily | 3:41 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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