David Pratt is a Scottish author, journalist and photographer, best known for his reporting on the war in Afghanistan. He will now be honoured with a brand new documentary on BBC Scotland, titled Pictures from Iraq.
David was featured on the 2020 documentary, Pictures from Afghanistan, and has been named Scottish Journalist of the Year twice for his efforts in the industry. Now he will be featured in a new show surrounding his work in the Middle East.
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War photographer David Pratt takes a trip back to Iraq, the beautiful, traumatised land whose conflicts he has covered for over three decades. This powerful, personal documentary unravels the complex recent history of Iraq, using David's rich personal archive of photographs and video.
The story begins in the north, in the Kurdish city of Erbil. David pays a visit to General Sirwan Barzani, leader of a unit of the Kurdish army - known as the Peshmerga - called the Black Tigers. Barzani's troops occupy a mountainous region in the north, a disputed area which is still subject to ISIS activity.
On a mountain ridge which runs along the Tigers’ line of defence, David hears from General Barzani how the Kurds and federal Iraqi government try to manage the uneasy peace, and how the ISIS threat has not gone away.
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He travels on through the Kurdish Autonomous Region to a base of all-female fighters from the Kurdish Freedom Party. These women are not Iraqi Kurds, but Iranian, their presence here underlining the political complexity of the region.
They are not regular army but revolutionaries, seeking to build a unified Kurdistan. As the journey proceeds, the action flashes back to other times when David was present in Iraq: in 1991 before the Gulf War.
Then on to the Iraq War in 2003 and afterwards, when he was embedded with American troops. This insightful documentary will show a glimpse into the real face of the war in the Middle East, and Scot David will be heading the journey himself.
Pictures of Iraq will air on Tuesday, July 5 at 10pm on BBC Scotland. It will then run on BBC iPlayer thereafter.
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