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Ben Brody

Ben Brody

Ben Brody is Director of Photography for GroundTruth and Report for America, providing training and mentorship for corps members and editing for visual fellowships. Brody spent most of his career photographing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, first as a soldier, and later as a civilian working on The GroundTruth Project's landmark multimedia project Foreverstan.

He holds an MFA in photography from Hartford Art School and is the author of the critically-acclaimed photobook Attention Servicemember.

Brody lives in Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley and can often be found foraging for wild mushrooms, mildly scorched from a homemade electric motorcycle mishap or repairing one of his many anachronistic cameras.
Photography

The Capitol riots through the lens of a photojournalist

Images of MAGA-hatted rioters crashing through police barricades and vandalizing the U.S. Capitol reverberated around the world yesterday,...

Jan 07, 2021
Photography

Photographers capture a world after war in ‘Imagine: Reflections on Peace’

Peace is not simply the absence of war. It is a complex and often-fragile condition that requires courage...

Dec 03, 2020
Photography

Vanishing West Virginia

This photo essay is part of a series exploring the dimensions of daily life in West Virginia, “coal country”...

Jul 22, 2020
Navigator

So you’re suddenly a photographer: a field guide

Editor’s note: Ben Brody, GroundTruth’s director of photography, shared some of the insights he  learned during his time...

Jun 12, 2020
Navigator

Ground Rules: Photojournalism advice from our director of photography

This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. Email Address For this edition of Navigator,...

Jun 09, 2020
Photography

Kent State and the photos that changed a nation

There are some photographs so ingrained in the public mind that they hardly need to be described. For...

May 05, 2020
Kentucky map
Democracy

Kentucky

Kentucky: Introduction Kentucky is the second of five reporting legs of Crossing the Divide. In the heart of...

Oct 11, 2017
Stuart Soboleski poses in his workshop in Albany, Vermont. (Photo by Ben Brody/GroundTruth)
Health

Struggling in Rural New England

Struggling in Rural New England: 'Undercurrent of anxiety' Emilie Poulin, a 32-year-old mother living in Marlboro, Vermont, says...

Nov 01, 2016
War and Peace

The Forgotten War in Afghanistan: And how the US military tries to keep it that way

One year ago, the United States and allied forces in Afghanistan ceremonially lowered the flag at military headquarters...

Dec 31, 2015
afghan police oils gun
War and Peace

The Life and Times of an Afghan police officer

Afghan photojournalist Farshad Usyan developed an interest in photography after his brother Qais started working for AFP in...

Nov 05, 2015
Asia

Afghanistan’s Doomed Dam

KAJAKI, Afghanistan — In the shadow of the Kajaki Dam's towering earthworks, a small, unassuming building discharges two...

Oct 11, 2011

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