There are two kinds of portraits. Portraits that you look into and portraits that look back at you. The idea of these images were from original Vietnam tour books that my father photographed for. I would see the expressions on the soldiers faces and it always evoked emotion for me. It left me wondering what they're looking at, what did they just see? My own experience as a combat photojournalist in Iraq in 2004 left my mind and soul wounded in a way. Wounded and scarred! I remember seeing some of the horrible results of war and this helped me in creating this series of portraits.
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