"Latif al-Ani’s images form part of a defence and an illustration of Iraqi culture—in all its diversity and complexity—that resonate cruelly today: the Mesopotamian antiquities and traditional dwellings, the hubbub of marketplaces and urban pastimes."
—Catherine David

Did anyone imagine that this cannibalistic story of warlords would lead us to the land of nightmares?

Lambda’s exemplary power lies in the internal structure and organization and in the building’s distinct external form. The jury concludes that this is what gives the museum the real possibility of becoming a testimony to its own time.

“The rabbit’s beating heart is quite close to the sensations caused by pure cinema.”
—Germaine Dulac

“In Photography I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality, and of the past, which does not refer either to Art or Communication, but rather to Reference . . . Photography's noeme will therefore be: ‘That-has-been’ [Ça-a-été].”
—Roland Barthes

"If I ask 'Have you eaten all of the apple?' and you answer flatly 'Yes', then what will your response be if I walk over to look and say, 'But you haven’t eaten it all; you’ve left the core, and the stem and the seeds to waste'?"
—Stanley Cavell