lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Iraq War

A young bride waits for her family to pick her up from the beauty parlour before her wedding, February 18, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. With the start of Muharram, a muslim holiday which traditionally forbids weddings for one month, hundreds of Iraqis scrambled last week to get married.
Baghdad, Iraq
A young bride waits for her family to pick her up from the beauty parlour before her wedding, February 18, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. With the start of Muharram, a muslim holiday which traditionally forbids weddings for one month, hundreds of Iraqis scrambled last week to get married.