In the mid-1990s artist Thomas Kneubühler spent two weeks in Baghdad. It struck him that his own experiences did not square with the image that he had been presented with by Western media. Rather than doing a photo report himself, he decided to investigate how the Iraqis present themselves in the media. Kneubühler visited Iraqi cinemas, photo shops and museums, and studied programmes on Iraqi television. He collected images, made photographs of them himself, and had his own portrait done by an Iraqi street photographer. The result is the installation BAGHDAD (MEDIATED), constructed of photographs and a presentation on video.

Thomas Kneubühler (b. Switzerland, 1963) studied at art academies in Basel and Montreal, Canada. He has participated in exhibitions in German, Switzerland, France and Mexico, and had four solo exhibitions in Canada.