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With Footnotes, I want people to appreciate the lost molecules of conflict: the details and sideshows that only exist until the people who remember them die. But I also want them to remember, when they're watchi the news, that it comes to them out of context and that history always comes back to haunt you. An incident can resonate for a whole century or even longer.

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What I try to do with my images is just give the reader a real feel for a place…It's very visceral. You open the page, and you are right there in the moment.

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