Unique from daily news coverage, Unseen Iraq provides a window into everyday life in Iraq. It encourages interest and empathy by highlighting similarities across cultures and inviting viewers into a more intimate space.
Biography
Andrea Bruce
Andrea Bruce is an Indiana native and an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After shooting as a staff photographer for The Concord Monitor and The St. Petersburg Times, she joined the staff of The Washington Post where she began to chronicle the world’s most troubled areas.
She has won many awards for her work, including top honors from the National Pictures of the Year competition, the White House News Photographers Association (where she has been named Photographer of the Year three times), and the prestigious John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York.
Andrea is currently based in Baghdad where she writes the weekly column “Unseen Iraq” for The Washington Post.