ICP’s museum, cafe, and shop are closed, October 12-14, while we prepare for the opening of new exhibitions, I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now and Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure. Please join us on Thursday, October 15 for opening day!

Inconvenient Evidence

Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib

A selection of approximately twenty of the photographs taken of detainees being abused by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq will be on view. In addition, there will be a selection of images that reflect the response of Iraqi civilians to the appearance of those images. Curated by Brian Wallis.

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Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, nicknamed Gilligan by U.S. soldiers, was made to stand on a box for about an hour. Specialist Sabrina Harman told him that he would be electrocuted if he fell, November 4, 2003. First published in The New Yorker.
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Sep 17, 2004 - Nov 28, 2004

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