AIR: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS Profiles Two Photographers and Their Unvarnished Images of the War in Iraq and Its Tragic Consequences on the Home Front, When SHOOTING THE WAR Premieres Friday, October 6 On PBS.

NEW YORK -- A hallmark of investigative journalism is obtaining information that people in power have an interest in keeping hidden. The work of Kael Alford, who photographed the victims of war in Iraq, and Paul Fusco, who is photographing the consequences of war at home, is investigative journalism in pictures.

Alford first entered Iraq in March 2003, where she captured the local impacts of the U.S. military's "shock and awe" bombing campaign from the unique perspective of an unembedded reporter living among Iraqi civilians. Fusco chose to document the stateside effects of the war - the funerals of fallen soldiers - despite government restrictions on photographing the war's casualties.

Their efforts to bring a more complete and uncensored portrait of the ravages of war on both sides are chronicled when AIR: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS presents Shooting the War, premiering Friday, October 6 at 10 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Award-winning broadcast journalist Sylvia Chase narrates.

In 2004 Alford returned to Iraq, photographing the insurgency from behind Shia militia lines. Although a few of her photos ran in American publications, the majority of her images and the story they tell has not been seen in America until now. Along with three other photographers, her work was recently published in the book Unembedded, with an exhibition of the same name now touring the U.S.

Fusco's images of funerals of service people killed in Iraq - a project he began in November 2003 and calls "Bitter Fruit" - were rejected, he says, by major mainstream publications. Only Mother Jones, a left-leaning current events magazine, would publish his powerful pictures of American families grieving over the deaths of their loved ones.

Funders for AIR: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS include Bernard and Irene Schwartz, Park Foundation, The Popplestone Foundation, The Jacob Burns Foundation, The Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation, Tracy and Eric Semler, and Scripps Howard Foundation.

AIR: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS is a production of Thirteen/WNET New York in association with the Center for Investigative Reporting. Stephen Segaller, director of news and public affairs programming at Thirteen, is executive-in-charge of AIR. Tom Casciato is executive producer; Scott Davis is senior producer.