The phrase "Ya Saddam" is part of the slogan 'With my blood, with my soul I follow you, O Saddam!'
Two series of photographs, taken in the days following the fall of the regime in April 2003 reveal the tragic dialogue between a brutal dictator and his subjects. Saddam Hussein bombarded his people with self-portraits in order to prompt them to veneration and submission. After his fall the images were used by that same people in order to express the hate and rage that had built up through the years of oppression: the photographs were ripped from the wall, murals smeared, and statues decapitated....