Date: February 2nd 2012

Well, this one took a lot longer than any of us expected, but I think it's worth the wait -- "War is Only Half the Story, Vol Four" is our most beautiful book to date, and can be ordered on our website at http://www.theaftermathproject.org. You can also order all of our previous volumes there, including Vol One, which is out of print.

This book features the work of our 2010 grant winners and finalists, and includes historical and contemporary explorations of the aftermath of conflict, which continue to resonate in our society today. Grant winner Danny Wilcox Frazier’s work, “Surviving Wounded Knee” is a nuanced consideration of the aftermath of the 19th-century massacre of Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee, and of the ongoing ramifications of the US government’s failure to honor treaties granting the Black Hills to the Lakotas. Grant winner Monika Bulaj explores the hidden worlds of Afghanistan, stories and sub-cultures that rarely are covered by journalists who embed with fighting forces. Finalist Jessica Hines has produced a remarkable personal essay about her brother, a Vietnam vet who committed suicide after the war, leaving behind many unanswered questions. Finalist Helena Schaetzle re-traces the steps of her grandfather, a German soldier during World War II, and re-tells that story with portraits of those still living in the places he fought and through landscapes of the places where these wartime stories played out. Finalists Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko joined together to create a project about the “nine cities” of Grozny, Chechnya, an idea inspired by a Thornton Wilder play about many cities in one.

We're grateful to the many private donors who helped fund this book, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Foundation to Promote Open Society and PhotoWings, who also supported the publication. In addition, thanks to a special grant from PhotoWings, we will launch an iPad app of the book in the iTunes store. We'll send out another announcement when it's available.

With best wishes for a productive year for all of us!

Sara Terry
Director/Founder, The Aftermath Project