Iraq: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - 2003 to 2008

Gilbertson has focussed almost exclusively on the War in Iraq since 2002, covering the conflict from pre-Occupation through the Surge of 2008. A selection of this work, as well as essays detailing Gilbertson's experiences, were published as the acclaimed 2007 book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War.

A Black Hawk helicopter carring an American General momentarily blocks the sun of a group of Polish soldiers tanning themselves on a base in Karbala, Iraq on May 3, 2004. The American military were forced to fight for control of Karbala after Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army easily over whelmed the unwilling coalition partner, Poland.