After a month, New York Times journalists pieced together a story about censorship and the military. New York Times article published July 26, 2008 Visit Zoriah's blog for details about his ongoing projects and photography, or visit his main site to view his entire portfolio.

 Ernesto Arce at KPFK interviews Zoriah
On July 1, 2008, Ernesto Arce did a telephone interview with Zoriah from Baghdad on the 4:00 p.m. KPFK news program (90.7 FM in Los Angeles).

Zoriah is an award-winning and courageous young photojournalist who specializes in documenting mass casualty disasters, conflict, war and humanitarian crises in third-world countries (he has been to 49 countries so far). He has reported in war zones both embedded and independently. With an uncanny ability to gain the confidence of whomever he is with, Zoriah gains unprecedented access to intimate stories as well as dark circumstances. Many of his images offered to the media are never published, for fear of offending a customer. Zoriah’s response is, “If this actually HAPPENED to someone, you should at least have to look at it.”

Zoriah has a mutually supportive relationship with Iraq Veterans Against the War, and was in Iraq June 2008 documenting his eyewitness account of what is happening. He spent many days in Sadr City photographing the checkpoints around the newly constructed wall, and then in Anbar Province was witness to the aftermath of a suicide bombing. Read the details and see images on his blog at www.zoriah.net. You can also experience more of Zoriah’s images on his website at www.zoriah.com.

Zoriah writes about the image below:

"A couple of days ago I went out on a foot patrol in Sadr City with a young a soldier and noticed the tattoo on his arm, featuring a rosary and the words 'Forgive Me.'  I asked him what the story behind it was. "He said, 'After my first tour in Iraq, I went back home to the states and all my friends called me a murderer and killer.  I guess I started thinking a lot about all the things I had done over here…you know.' "