"In 1993, the year of the infamous 'Blackhawk Down' in Mogadishu, Somalia, I was the official photographer for the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II). I traveled via armed vehicle convoys, helicopters, military transport planes and armored personnel carriers. I photographed meeting of dignitaries, grip-and-grin handshakes, Somali warlords and war ladies, multinational peacekeepers and ordinary Somali citizens. I lived in a container next to an airstrip on a compound without electricity or running water. I carried two Nikon cameras - one for slides, one for film. I dedicate my photographs in this show to the memory of those thousands of innocent civilians and peacekeepers who died before, during and after my short stay in this war-worn African country."

“In 1993, the year of the infamous “Blackhawk Down” in Mogadishu, Somalia, I was the official photographer for the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM). I traveled via armed vehicle convoys, helicopters, military transport planes and armored personnel carriers. I photographed meetings of dignitaries, grip-and-grin handshakes, Somali warlords and war ladies, multinational peacekeepers and ordinary Somali citizens.”

Audrey Gottlieb, documentary photographer, is best known for her work on American immigration in the borough of Queens, New York. A graduate of Temple University, Gottlieb has worked as a photographer, educator and researcher. She joined the United Nations in 1973, serving in public information, photography, editing and translation positions in New York, Geneva, Nicosia, Nairobi and Mogadishu. She resides in York, Maine.