[Leica] Finally! My Iraq photo book is done

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Phil:  Words fail me. You've given us a gritty, realistic portrayal of 
your experiences. War should never be romanticized, as it so often is 
for political purposes. You've told it as you saw it, in the tradition 
of the best photojournalists. Except that you were a participant who was 
also a photographer, so your viewpoint is particularly resonant.

Two photos really stood out as I thumbed through. One was the photo on 
the ground near the soldier's boots. The other was your final page with 
the shelled building. Somehow these summed things up.

I can only hope that someone of influence gains insight from your work, 
so that maybe one future war can be prevented, somewhere, sometime, 
somehow.

Sir, I salute you.

--Peter
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 > Phil,
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 > I think you have risk your life to capture all these. I am glad you are
 > survived to report what you have seen and share unique life experience of
 > war with us and remind the world how much we should learn from the war.
 >
 >
 >
 > War and Peace or Peace and War, which part should come first?
 >
 >
 >
 > We know war and peace always comes together in all times of history. From
 > now on in your book, can we make war and peace separate or can we human
 > remove war together from now on for true peace of life. Christmas is all
 > about peace and joy. I hope and pray this world dream come true in the
 > world history for everyone on the earth.
 >
 >
 >
 > Phil, thank you again for your great life shoot which shocks and moves me
 > to great extent. I believe what you work in Iraq at the price of your 
life
 > like all other veterans are worth our full applause and praise for 
the life
 > journey of peace.
 >
 >
 >
 > Merry Christmas to you all.
 >
 >
 >
 > Regards,
 >
 >
 >
 > Jacky.
 >
 >
 > On 16 December 2011 06:42, Phil Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
 > wrote:
 >
 > > As many here know, I was an independent duty combat photographer in the
 > > US Navy attached to NMCB-4 (Hoorah Seabees!) from 2003-2005. In August
 > > of 2004 I deployed with the 'Bees to Fallujah, Iraq and worked to show
 > > the infrastructure work the battalion was doing. We worked with the
 > > deployed battalions of the 1st Marine Division as well as US Army
 > > combat engineers among others. I was in-country from August, 2004 until
 > > the first week of January, 2005.
 > >
 > > This last few months I have been working on compiling a book of photos
 > > that I took with my Leicas while there (my work camera was a Nikon
 > > D2h.) It's finally done and I'm putting this out to hopefully generate
 > > a buzz to get a sense of the viability of doing a first print run of at
 > > least 30 copies. As the book is 166 pages, the single-print cost on
 > > Blurb.com is prohibitive for the would-be buyer and I don't want to
 > > price the book out of reach.
 > >
 > > So here it is:
 > > http://issuu.com/phil_forrest/docs/fallujah_a_photographers_perspective
 > >
 > > Feel free to let me know what you think of it and next week I think I'm
 > > going to begin taking orders.
 > >
 > > Thanks all!
 > > Phil Forrest
 > >
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