JOANN VERBURG: This photograph which is called Secrets: Iraq was taken in the morning, and light was pouring in to the room where I was reading the paper, and having a little espresso in a glass cup and that moment, when you're sort of half asleep and getting ready for your day. I think is just such a beautiful time in many ways.
The photograph reflects that just by the choice of subject matter, that there is the newspaper and everything that's recorded in that paper in combination with that sensual experience of the beautiful light as well as the sense of the smell of the coffee and the taste of the coffee.
What you're looking at is a little glass cup of espresso, and through the bottom you can see some soldiers. They're women soldiers in Kuwait.
This piece has to do with the coming together of beauty and one's consciousness as a citizen, as a political being, and that they're not two different things.
