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An award-winning photojournalist who has been embedded with three military units during Operation Iraqi Freedom will present his images of war and the life of a modern soldier on Monday, March 19 at 7 p.m. in the Catherine Evans McGowan Room of the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library. The event is open free to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Communications and History Departments at College Misericordia, the one-hour slide-show presentation will feature the images of Peter Haley of The Tacoma News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. He was embedded in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Those scenes will be presented and explained by the photojournalist, who has garnered national and state recognition for his work. After his presentation, Haley will field questions from the audience.
“All of my stories have an image or two to support them, whether or not the image captures the event fully or not’’ Haley said. “I encountered little violence. It’s hard to remember, but on the average day, the average Iraqi and the average American soldiers don’t see any violence.’’
Haley shot thousands of images during his 15-weeks in Iraq, covering troops that hail from Western Washington State. In April and May of 2003, he was assigned to a medical logistics brigade from Ft. Lewis. They entered Iraq from Kuwait and convoyed to Mosul. During the mission, troops ventured into several towns, including some in Kurdish areas.
He was embedded with a Washington State National Guard Brigade in June and July 2004. The troops were based in Balad, north of Baghdad, and in several locations around the Iraqi capital, including the Green Zone. Haley documented the Stryker Brigade when he was embedded with them in Mosul during his May and June 2005 assignment. The brigade ventured into many nearby towns and explored a large swath of the western desert near Syria.
The Tacoma News Tribune photographer was also paired with a reporter during his tour. Together, they documented the work of their local men and women in the armed forces and sent the impartial news report back home.
“I consider myself very patriotic, but, as with nearly all journalists, I try to keep patriotism from affecting the journalism’’ Haley acknowledged. “I consider doing journalism to be doing my part to make a tiny portion of the world a tiny bit better.’’