Siege of Khartoum, 1884 appropriates iconic images from the Iraq war and combines them with archival newspaper texts from earlier points in history. The articles come from archives of The New York Times,The Daily Telegraph (UK) and The Times (UK).The articles span from the period of high empire (late 19th century) to the present day. My project traces the narratives of Empire at work in the present moment. The 27 photo-collages work map the narrative arc of earlier colonial wars of conquest and reveal the Iraq war and the War on Terror to heavily conform to this predetermined script.