Ben Brody || Artist Talk
_20260904062241PM.jpg "Black and White photograph of a man wearing a striped suit of the american flag with the stars on his arms and a girl visible in the background.")
With the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, photographer Ben Brody will present his work documenting and interpreting the wars that followed. Working at the intersection of photojournalism, art, and propaganda, Brody spent more than 13 years photographing in Iraq and Afghanistan, first as an enlisted soldier and later as an independent photojournalist. His published photobooks explore the culture of information warfare used to sell the so-called Global War on Terror, and the struggle of its combatants to make sense of it.
This talk will be held at the Center for Documentary Studies auditorium, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street. Street parking is available.
Bio:
Ben Brody is an independent photographer, educator, and picture editor working on long-form projects related to the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their aftermath. He is the Director of Photography for Report for America, and a co-founder of Mass Books.
His first book, "Attention Servicemember", was shortlisted for the 2019 Aperture - Paris Photo First Book Award and is now in its second edition. The entirety of the prints, maquettes, and ephemera from "Attention Servicemember" and his second book, 300m, are in the permanent collection at Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts, at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Ben holds an MFA from Hartford Art School's International Low-Residency Photography program. He resides in western Massachusetts.
Light refreshments will be served. This talk is being held as part of WARphotography/AMERICANimage currently on view through mid-November in the Rubenstein Library.
