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This new, clearer version of The Known Soldier was created using higher resolution source images and an improved method
for aligning the faces in the photos.
The composite image includes the
1087
available portraits of the 1121 American soldiers killed in Iraq from March 2003 to October 2004.
In order to create this version, I scoured the internet for the best possible photo of each individual soldier, then
aligned the eyes and mouth of each portrait with the preceding photos before compositing them into a single work.
As I went through the list of fatalities,
time and again I encountered the personal accounts of friends, family and loved ones. Each parent's final
conversation, every friend's happy recollection, the lonely words of widowed spouses and the bewildered questions of every
fatherless child tore into my heart and left me, more often than not, in tears. As I looked into the pixelized eyes
of each of these selfless warriors, I wondered what their plans had been - I wondered where they would be now if not for
the war.
So here it is, for your contemplation: the latest installment of
The Known Soldier.
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