Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Photolucida: Dima Gavrysh: Insallah
Inshallah (God willing in Arabic) is a project that explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts.
Dima Gavrysh spent several weeks embedded with the United States Army in Afghanistan last summer. He spoke to James Estrin about his experience.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/showcase-197/
Dima Gavrysh, who was born in Ukraine, is a New York-based photographer. He has photographed for a number of major publications worldwide and collaborated with Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Population Fund in Uganda, Senegal and Niger. For his most recent project, he spent last summer with the United States Army in Afghanistan for The Associated Press.
Mr. Gavrysh sat down with James Estrin to talk about his experience in Afghanistan.
burn magazine says:
For over two decades a sectarian rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its infamous leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging a war against the Ugandan people and government, burning villages, mutilating civilians, and abducting children. Based in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the LRA has continued to terrorize northern Uganda since the late 1980’s, forcing millions of people to abandon their homes for dire conditions of internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.