Catalog 2007

I’m just like everyone else. I grew up with cars; sometimes in the car, actually. My father and I would wash it on weekends. I loved the car, it was fascinating. It went so fast. It took us to the beach, to the funfair, to my grandmother’s. It was a member of our family. Even today despite all the evidence, it's hard to believe the car can harm us. Us and a few hundred thousand other species....

In Iraq, one in two policemen hide their faces. They don’t want to be recognised by the civilians and some don’t even want to be identified by their own colleagues. A crew from Arte Reportage went to Kirkuk, a large town in Iraq's northern oilfields that is being torn apart by three factions. The Kurds, who control the region, the Turkmens and the Sunni Arabs who make up the majority of the...

Who is behind the Iraqi civil war tearing the country apart? How do Iraqis live their day-to-day life? Officially, 50.000 deaths are numbered in the conflict. But the John Hopkins University survey gives a much more terrifying figure: 650.000 victims since the beginning of the American invasion. Shi’ites, Sunnis and Kurds slaughter each other. Where does the truth lie? Iraq has become a black...