From Nine to Noon 29 April 2014
Ashley Gilbertson is an award-winning photojournalist whose work has focused on soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and how those wars have effected veterans and their families.
He won a national magazine award for his series, Bedrooms Of The Fallen, which depicted the intact bedrooms of service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also won awards for his photographic reportage on The Battle For Fallujah.
Iraqi's attempt to extinguish a van that caught fire on Saadoun Street, in Baghdad, Iraq on May 30, 2004. Photograph courtesy Ashley Gilbertson
From the book 'Bedrooms of the Fallen'. Marine corporal Christopher G. Scherer, 21, was killed by a sniper on July 21, 2007 in Karmah, Iraq. He was from East Northport, New York. His bedroom was photographed in February 2009.
A marine slides down the marble handrail in Saddam’s palace in Tikrit. From the book 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War'.
Photograph courtesy Ashley Gilbertson
A Black Hawk helicopter carrying an American General momentarily blocks the sun of a group of Polish soldiers tanning themselves on a base in Karbala, Iraq on May 3, 2004. The American military were forced to fight for control of Karbala after Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army easily overwhelmed the unwilling coalition partner, Poland. Photograph courtesy Ashley Gilbertson
The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.
