War Zone Traumas, Restaged at Home by Jennifer Karady – NYTimes.com

The portraits are striking. In one of the large-format color prints, which measure four feet square, a soldier ascends a dark flight of stairs, armed with nothing more than a pair of textbooks held like a rifle. In another, a smiling ranger sits on the edge of a placid lake, camping, as two buddies — each wearing googly-eyed glasses and bloody fatigues — smile back. In a third, a sergeant sits bolt upright in a burned-out house with no other company other than a giant pink bunny.