120 pages Edited by Pablo Allison 29.7 x 21 cm Language: English Paperback Publisher: Paperback Edition of 150 copies 2025
Baghdad, 2022. In a city scarred by decades of wars, propaganda, and political upheavals, Pablo Allison turns his gaze to the walls. Tags, service ads, religious slogans, or simple spray marks: these urban inscriptions reveal a daily life far removed from stereotypical images of Iraq.
Without attempting to document Western-style graffiti, Iraq Walls explores the raw aesthetics of traces left in public space and their role in a country still marked by the scars of recent history. Between the faded remnants of Saddam Hussein’s propaganda, the fortified walls of the Green Zone, and spontaneous calligraphy emerging near checkpoints, Allison offers a sensitive visual narrative where attention to detail becomes a way of telling the story of contemporary urban Iraq.
Through these images, what unfolds is not only a landscape, but a fragmented memory: that of a country which, despite violence and constant surveillance, continues to express its voices on the walls.
