Perilous Lens: Guns in an Urban Landscape
poster calls for a week of peace in Cotabato

Philippines
2007

A tattered poster calls for a week of peace in Cotabato in the run-up to national elections, typically a period of heightened violence.

Haitian police force to the ground a man who failed to follow orders and identify himself.
US soldiers detain a young man stopped during a routine patrol in Adhamiya for carrying an unliscensed pistol
A US infantry medic stands above a wounded Iraqi man outside of the company's aid station.
A woman in the Sunni neighbourhood of Ghazliyah
A thriving craft weapon industry
On a bridge on the island of Basilan
Witnesses swear an oath before testifying against the man in the foreground
poster calls for a week of peace in Cotabato
Only the most obsolete of confiscated guns are reportedly stored at police warehouses in Manila
Children from Maluso, a fishing village in Basilan, pass a police sign warning of a five-month, pre-election weapons ban enforced in Manila
At least 25 journalists have been murdered since 2000