IRAQ, AS SAMAWAH, DUTCH ARMY (Iraq, 2004)
In the course of his career Eddy van Wessel regularly visited Iraq. The first time was in 1995, when Saddam Hussein was still president. He was there again in 2003, when the Iraqi army was defeated by the Coalition troops. Van Wessel joined the soldiers in their march on Baghdad. In the same year Dutch troops were stationed in the south of Iraq, at As Samawah. In his series from As Samawah Van Wessel recorded the lives of the Dutch soldiers.