In pictures: Iraqi lives through a lens

Giles Penfound is a soldier in the British Army's Royal Logistics Corps and chief media operations photographer for the army.

While working in the southern Iraq cities of Basra and Al Amarah he began a personal project, documenting ordinary Iraqis' lives.

Many urged him to take their "sura" or picture, such as these gentlemen posing in a souk in al-Amarah.

Here he talks about the images he took and how his project shaped his thoughts on the country.