Riley and his story. Me and my outrage. You and us

[kpete]

The Abu Ghraib Photos You Haven’t Seen
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_abu_ghraib_photos_you_havent_seen_20110422/


Riley and his story.
Me and my outrage.
You and us
A project by Monica Haller

My head is so full of memories.
Sometimes my photos — at least the remainder
of them after two crashed hard-drives and
over 1000 lost photos — serve as a structure to
recollect or re-collect my memories.

Overall I took around a thousand pictures.
When I took them, I thought they were
evidence. As I look at them now, they tell
a different story. The role that photographs
play changes every six months.

Many events during my time in Iraq were
too complex, too horrific, or beyond my
understanding. There were simply too many
things I witnessed there on a given day to
process, so I stored them as photos to figure
out later.

Pictures create a concrete reality. At least I
know these things happened. They continue
to serve that purpose.


Horrific photos here:
http://rileyandhisstory.com/PDF/riley_excerpts.pdf



This is not a book. This is an invitation, a container
for unstable images, a model for further action. Here
is the formula: Riley and his story. Me and my outrage.
You and us.

Riley was a friend in college and later served as
a nurse at Abu Ghraib prison. This is a container
for Riley’s digital pictures and fleeting traumatic
memories. Images he could not fully secure or expel
and entrusted to me.


http://rileyandhisstory.com/