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Benjamin Lowy’s Perspectives


Recently selected by William Eggleston as winner of the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Benjamin Lowy’s Iraq | Perspectives series is one of my favorite projects I’ve seen this year. A conflict photographer, Lowy began Perspectives in 2005 while covering the war in Iraq, experiencing its landscape mainly through an unending series of Humvee windows. He began logging these views, and ended up with a poignant visual metaphor of the US’s most fundamental failure in Iraq, that of communication.