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.

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Kentucky

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

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

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...

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...

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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...

Afghanistan’s Doomed Dam

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

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