Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Lelage Snow.


 
Lalage Snow, who is currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan, embarked on an 8 month long project titled We Are Not Dead. In the photographic series, Snow captured portraits of British soldiers before, during, and after deployment in Afghanistan. The images are presented in a triptych to juxtapose the physical and emotional transformation of these men. Of this series, Snow states, "It was a very personal project and stemmed from having embedded with the military on and off for 4 years in Iraq and Afghanistan and bearing witness to how many young men return as shadows of their former selves and, in many cases, with deep, psychological scars. As the body count of British servicemen killed or wounded rose and the political ramifications of the British army’s presence in Afghanistan became increasingly convoluted, more and more soldiers felt like they didn’t have a voice, or at least, weren’t being listened to. We Are The Not Dead is an attempt at giving the brave young men and women the chance to explain how it really is."
(via My Modern Met)









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