Fallujah, Iraq was the location of an Iraq War battle now historized by the American military as the Second Battle of Fallujah. This visual project — my first curatorial endeavor — features the work of emerging Iraqi photographers and proceeds from the idea that the best way to learn about a place is through the people who live there. My purpose is to simply make another story about Fallujah visible to American audiences, one that departs from its militarized meaning in public memory. Fallujah is not an Iraq War battlefield. It is a place where people work, attend school, and frequent public spaces wanting what we all want, a chance to peaceably choose our lives. A portfolio of the exhibit is archived at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library in Durham, North Carolina. Learn more about this documentary project by visiting the exhibit website and Click! photography festival artist talk.