Ben Brody has been photographing and writing about the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2005. In Afghanistan Brody primarily worked for the nonprofit GroundTruth Project, seeking to read between the lines of America’s endgame for its longest war. He tries to make images of this historical event with an eye toward the psychology and the often strange circumstances of its political and military actors. The result of his six years in Afghanistan is FOREVERSTAN, an ambitious multimedia exploration of America’s attempts to extricate itself from Afghanistan in an orderly fashion.
He was recently a finalist for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, a LensCulture Exposure Award and was named to Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 for 2014. He is a 2017 MFA candidate at Hartford Art School’s limited-residency photography program.