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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
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

Artist Ben Lowy (American, born 1979)
Date2011- 2012
LocaleSirte, 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 LineGift of Ben Lowy
Object number2018.18.4
Collections
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
Ben Lowy
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
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
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
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
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
Lone activist Ieshia Evans stands her ground while offering her hands for arrest as she is charged by riot police during a protest against police brutality outside the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana, July, 2016
Jonathan Bachman
2021
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
Baraa Azam sits in front of his ruined house
Eman Mohammed
undated
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Man with Hand Against His Face
Ben Shahn
c. 1959

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