Jean-Marc Bouju (b.1961)

Jean-Marc Bouju (b.1961)

Iraqi POW AND HIS SON, NAJAF, 31 MARCH, 2003. Pigment print, image size 25.3 x 35.5cm, sheet size 30.5 x 40.5cm. Framed, frame siz 48.5 x 57.5cm.

Photojournalist Jean-Marc Bouju was spent nine weeks on assignment in Iraq for the Associate Press in the Spring of 2003, and captured this image of an Iraqi man comforting his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POW's in Najaf on 31 March. He would go on to win World Press Photo of the year for this image in 2004, alongs with first pridze in the News Single category.

Iraq. An Iraqi man comforts his 4-year-old son at a holding center for prisoners of war, in the base camp of the US Army 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf. The boy had become terrified when, according to orders, his father was hooded and handcuffed. A US soldier later severed the plastic handcuffs so that the man could comfort his child. Hoods were placed over detainees' heads because they were quicker to apply than blindfolds. The military said the bags were used to disorient prisoners and protect their identities. It is not known what happened to the man or the boy.

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