In the aftermath of a truck bomb attack this guard for the Democratic Party compound for Islamic Revolution in the town of Bartallah, Iraq emerged. “Gathered in a large group of old men, here was this young man. I will never forget his striped pants and patterned shirt. H e just looked like he didn’t belong there.” Lock thought it was befitting to shoot him in a stylized way. It was a small moment in an otherwise brutal day where three were killed in the attack and five wounded.

Official USAF photograph by TSgt Jeremy T. Lock