Judith Joy Ross . Living With War

Portraits 1983 to 2007
19 July to 5 October 2008

Veterans and decorated heroes, women and mothers, victims of war and soldiers who have returned home, anti-war protesters and demonstrators – how profoundly does war effect people’s lives? How does it change us? Judith Joy Ross portrays Americans who were involved in the Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq wars. With a unique combination of intimacy and emotional distance, her precise, sober images show no smiles, no joy—instead, inner turmoil and human beings who have hardened themselves to their outer experiences.

C/O Berlin presents the exhibition Living With War for the first time in Berlin. The 85 black-and-white photographs were presented previously in Bottrop and Leipzig. A catalogue has been published by Steidl to accompany the exhibition.