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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Libyan residents walk through the remains of buildings that have been riddled by mortars and bullets, July 16, 2012, Sirte, Libya
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Libyan residents walk through the remains of buildings that have been riddled by mortars and bullets, July 16, 2012, Sirte, Libya

Artist Ben Lowy (American, born 1979)
Date2012
Made/manufacturedSirte, Libya
MediumArchival pigment print
DimensionsImage: 24 × 24 in. (61 × 61 cm)
Paper: 26 × 26 in. (66 × 66 cm)
Framed: 28 × 28 in. (71.1 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number2018.17.1
Collections
DescriptionSirte (Libya) street after firefight, in raking light, figures walk in middle, others sit in the shade at left.
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Omar stands outside his family's bullet-riddled house in a neighborhood that is home to Gaddafi loyalists, July 16, 2012, Sirte, Libya
Ben Lowy
2011- 2012
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Samir, an Eritrean migrant, was shot in Kufra, Libya, by a Libyan militia member during his trek through the desert; he lies on a mat in a migrant camp, July 9, 2012, Benghazi, Libya.
Ben Lowy
2012
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Women wait in line to vote in the first free Libyan elections in decades, July 7, 2012, Benghazi, Libya
Ben Lowy
2012
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Two Libyan women walk through a park on the outskirts of Martyrs' Square, seen through a bullet-shattered window in a Gaddafi government domestic spy office.
Ben Lowy
2011-2012
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Ali, age eighty-three, an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) from Tawergha, stands outside his tent in a secluded Displaced Persons camp in the desert, July 9, 2012, near Benghazi, Libya
Ben Lowy
2012
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
The Buildings of U.N.R.W.A., March, 2012
Gloriann Liu
2012; print 2016
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
A Libyan man cries at the sight of at least fifty burnt bodies in a construction-site shed near the base of the infamous Khamis Brigade, Gaddafi's security forces.
Ben Lowy
2011-2012
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
The bodies of civilian and rebel casualties are stored in the Jala Hospital morgue in Benghazi, Libya.
Ben Lowy
2011
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Mohammed Khader, a Palestinian construction worker, feeds pigeons in front of the remains of his house, March 2006
Eman Mohammed
Photo date: 2006; Print date: 2016
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Buildings & Palm Tree
Elizabeth Boardman Warren
undated
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
A car is torched, along with a Gaddafi loyalist encampment, in the roundabout outside the Bab al-Aziziya compound.
Ben Lowy
2011
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Yankee Papa 13, Vietnam
Larry Burrows
Photo date: 1965; Print date: 2018

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