Look at the U.S.A.: A Diary of War and Home Edition:Unsigned

Look at the U.S.A.: A Diary of War and Home Edition:UnsignedA personal chronicle of post 9 11 America, at war and at home. Through reportage and memoir, in photographs and words, Look at the U. S. A. documents the major fault lines that have defined this era, beginning with the war in Iraq and ending with the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Fueled by ideology, insecurity, ambition, and a deep fascination with war, Peter van Agtmael began documenting Americas war in Iraq in 2005. So began a photographic

Traveling to New York

You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy

The Sound of Two Songs

he was asked to cover a fight in London with the then-heavyweight champion of the world

the bench lit by a cool green glow

from the official who consulted her stopwatch to make sure she was punctual to her final departure on her royal plane

birds now became my guides as I looked for the beginnings of water

framed by the stoop of a New York City building

America looks very different from the stories we like to tell ourselves

he had first taken up photography while living in Los Angeles

which ended in violence and arrests

At the edge of dusk in Beaufort West