“The soldier above all others prays for peace,
for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear
the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
–General Douglas MacArthur
Exit Wounds at The City Club of Portland
Articles about Exit Wounds
Exit Wounds
Portland Community College - Rock Creek 2009
Exhibit Detail
Western Washington University 2009
Arturo
Wilsonville, Oregon 2008
Exhibit Detail
New American Art Union 2008
Sergio
Eugene, Oregon 2008
Mandy and Katrina
Odysseus Project Exhibition
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About Me
- Jim lommasson
- Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and writer living in Portland, Oregon. Lommasson received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his first book, Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms. In 2009 Oregon State University Press published Lommasson’s Oaks Park Pentimento: Portland’s Lost and Found Carousel. He is currently working on a book and traveling exhibition about American Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and their lives after their return from war, called Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After iraq and Afghanistan. The book will include Lommasson’s photographs, and photographs and writing by the participants. Lommasson received a 2008 Couture stipend from the New American Art Union for the Exit Wounds exhibition. He was awarded a Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) Project Grant for What We Carried, and is a 2012 Oregon Humanities Conversation Grant Recipient for his public discussion "Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home."
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