These images, part of a  piece of work entititle "The World in Your Face"  evolved from an idea by myself, a white British woman Christian  and Norah Al-Ani an Iraqi-Irish woman both living  in Cambridge, and our conversations about the way in which the Iraq war and subsequent occupation has been reported and represented in the media. It has also been greatly inspired by the “Open Shutters” exhibition[i] in which a group of Iraqi women took photos and wrote openly about their experiences of life in Iraq during the war in an attempt to humanise and personalise the effects of war on people’s everyday lives. We both had a sense that the media, at the same time as sensationalising reports from countries which were at war or suffering its aftermath, were partly to blame for a sense of apathy or disengagement from events that are happening elsewhere.