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Daniel Heyman produced this work as part of a series of portraits of Iraqis who had experienced enhanced interrogation techniques while imprisoned in Abu Ghraib during the first years of the Iraq War. Members of the U.S. military applied these “techniques,” which included cruel and humiliating treatment.
In 2008 Heyman accompanied American human rights lawyers as they interviewed former Abu Ghraib detainees. Along with each sitter’s likeness he recorded fragments of their interview, rendered by the interpreter, on the same sheet. The artist completed each work within the session, refraining from later revisions, in order to convey the situation in an unmediated fashion.
BJ, 2014
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