Thank you to artists who risk their life to share the story of war.
Eugene Richards award-winning photo-journalist. "It was 2006; the war in Iraq was in its fourth year. No weapons of mass destruction had been found. There were reports of tens of thousands of dead and injured Iraqis, of more than 2,000 dead American soldiers, of rising rates of depression and suicide among American military personnel. All the while Congress and the media debated what the conflict was costing America in image and treasure, the president in popularity. Troubled by the public’s growing indifference to the tragedy of Iraq and critical of my own inaction, I set out on what would be a years-long journey to document the lives of Americans who’d been profoundly affected by the war."
“People have done a lot of great work on the war,” Richards said. “But I think the more intimate you get, the closer it comes to you.”
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