Lalage Snow, a photographer and journalist, named her idea, "We are the Not Dead," after soldiers who came home from war.
These soldiers were photographed before they went to war, during the war (specifically--after an improvised explosive device, IED, had just exploded that day), and after they came back from war. Here are a few:
Alongside their photographs, there are descriptions of their experiences during that time. This is Private Chris MacGregor, 24. He had a sustained injury from the war and this is a photographic explanation of his five month tour of duty. So much change is only five months. He said that the fear is what kept them alive over there.
These soldiers were photographed before they went to war, during the war (specifically--after an improvised explosive device, IED, had just exploded that day), and after they came back from war. Here are a few:
Alongside their photographs, there are descriptions of their experiences during that time. This is Private Chris MacGregor, 24. He had a sustained injury from the war and this is a photographic explanation of his five month tour of duty. So much change is only five months. He said that the fear is what kept them alive over there.
This is Private Matthew Hodgson, 18. His eyes tell everything. From the left--you see a guy. In the middle, the eyes grow hard and straining. At the end, he's almost vacant, lost, sad, jaded.
Wow. The eyes are the window to the soul. Each of us has a story. And, with that story comes suffering, which is the strong thread that can weave us together, or divide us--if that story is not told.
References: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/we-are-the-not-dead-soldiers-on-afghan-mission/
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