Photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin joined Andrew Steggall and the Iraqi actors in the Red House in Sulaymaniyah. Broomberg and Chanarin are a photographic team based in London. They are the authors of three photographic books and the recipients of last year’s Achievement Award from the Royal Photographic Society. Their work has been exhibited widely within the UK, including shows at the Photographer’s Gallery in London, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Museum of Film and Photography in Bradford. They are regular contributors to The Observer, Dazed and Confused and Wallpaper Magazine and teach workshops in photography around the world, from Mexico City to Ramallah. Their work is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s permanent collection.

The Red House was a Ba’athist headquarters in the Kurdish North of Iraq. Its name was derived from the faded pink colour of the external walls, but is now more accurately an allusion to the bloody acts committed there by Saddam’s secret police against the Kurdish people. (...)

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