Movie Response- Our Feelings Took The Pictures

The documentary Our Feelings Took The Pictures is about a group of women from all different cities in Iraq who come together for a photography project. British photojournalist, Eugenie Dolberg, organized the workshop with the hope in mind that these Iraqi women would then go back and document the war with more intimacy. She, an assistant, and these 12 women, lived in a house together and every day would go out on the streets of Iraq and photograph what they saw. Most of these women have never taken a picture before, let alone handle a camera so it was all a new experience for them, but definitely a life changing one.  When they weren't photographing, they were working on photography related projects, such as life graphs. When presented, these very personal life graphs relieved heartbreaking stories from each woman, all brought on my the war. There were stories of death of their family members, personal experiences of kidnappings, and bombings of their village. This film showed how these women could use these past experiences to go out and use pictures to communicate what was happening to them and to people like them, because of the war. All in all this was a very moving film and really showed a different take on how personal histories and photography can intertwine.