Alum Bryan Denton (BFA Photography 2005) was traveling with Iraqi counterterrorism forces outside of Mosul when their convoy was hit by multiple car bombs. He survived and told his story to The New York Times:
BARTELLA, Iraq – Our convoy had already been targeted by suicide car bombs three times, over a long day spent under fire. So the Iraqi forces had brought up a tank, and its main gun kept scanning the road ahead toward Mosul.
But the shouts started coming from behind us instead, and when I turned to look, I knew right away: Here was bomb No. 4, seemingly out of nowhere. By the time I saw it, the vehicle was maybe 70 feet away.
Bryan Denton is a photojournalist based in Beirut, Lebanon. Mr. Denton has worked frequently on assignment for The New York Times covering conflicts, culture and crises in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and the Philippines, among others.