New York, NY —
Over the course of his four years serving in Iraq, military officer Christopher J. Brownfield worked on the sidelines to develop relations with the artists of Baghdad. During the Surge, it was too dangerous for him to see their art shows around the city. Instead, they got the art to him through vendors working inside the green zone. Now Brownfield has come to New York -- he’s the curator of an exhibit in SoHo called "Oil on Landscape: Art From Wartime Contemporaries of Baghdad.
Video and Reporting by Shaghayegh Kalantari, Tyler Mitter and Annie Shreffler