war photography

Recently, Ben Lowy's book, Iraq | Perspecitves was awarded the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize by photography legend William Eggleston. Split into two parts, the book is made up of images captured in Iraq up to 2008. The first chapter was shot exclusively through blast-proof windows in armored military vehicles, and the second involved rigging a DSLR to a pair of night vision goggles.

Portraits of Love is an annual even organized by the PMDA and Soldiers' Angels in order to give something to troops stationed overseas during the holidays. Being stuck away from loved ones is hard enough for anyone during the later months of the year, let alone if you're stationed half a world away in life-threatening danger. The organization allows any military family with a member stationed overseas to send them a family portrait for free.

It was just yesterday that the New York Times and Der Spiegel made a combined effort to track down the origins of an intriguing photo album from WWII. This album was in the hands of a private American collector, who was attempting to sell it in order to pay for heart surgery, but he had no idea about its origins.