Through portraits and interviews with veterans wounded in Iraq, Nina Berman's Purple Hearts project seeks to connect the experience of soldiers and civilians. Taken in homes, hospitals and military bases throughout the United States, the voices and images in her work make plain the lasting physical and psychological consequences of war.
Photos and audio by Nina Berman / NOOR. © 2009 Nina Berman
Nina Berman is a widely published documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. She has received awards from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Open Society Institute Documentary Fund and the World Press Photo Foundation.
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