Exhibit: "When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans"

"When Janey Comes Marching Home" includes a series of forty large-scale color photographic portraits and accompanying oral histories of women who served in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The exhibit, and a book of the same name (2010, University of North Carolina Press), is a collaboration between photographer Sascha Pflaeging and author Laura Browder, Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor in American Studies at the University of Richmond. In taking the photos, Pflaeging said he was interested in "documenting these women visually while the situation is still present, their feelings and emotions still raw and very real." The resulting portraits, and accompanying text, convey stories that are by turns moving, comic, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking.