The home front

• Autores: Christie Chisholm
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 53, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 24-26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Chisholm highlights Ashley Gilbertson's Bedrooms of the Fallen. Bedrooms of the Fallen, a project Gilbertson has been working on for seven years, was published in June by the University of Chicago Press. After covering conflict throughout his career, and six long years in Iraq, Gilbertson had grown numb to the horrors of war. Gilbertson only photographed rooms that were more or less untouched since their residents left. He contacted some 2,000 people, looking for families with undisturbed rooms who were open to the idea of Gilbertson photographing them. The photographs have the sense of a moment preserved. There are rustled sheets, shirts tossed over furniture. In one, a dimpled duvet cover gives away the spot where Rifleman Paul Donnachie, 18, sat before heading off to war. The last bedroom in the book belongs to Army Specialist Ryan Yurchison, 27. It's plastered in band posters and scattered with the toys of a young man--a Nixon mask, bobbleheads, drum sticks. Yurchison is the only service member in the book who made it home. But by the time he got there, he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and an addiction to painkillers.