Photographers

Ben Brody (born 1979) is an American photographer, editor, and educator whose work centers on the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their enduring psychological and political consequences. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2002 at age 22 and served as a combat photographer in Army Public Affairs from 2003 to 2008, documenting the Iraq War under strict censorship and producing images later used as military propaganda. From 2010 to 2018 he returned to Afghanistan for months at a time as an embedded civilian photojournalist, where his access remained subject to military restrictions. Brody’s critically acclaimed book “Attention Servicemember” (2019, expanded 2020) examines censorship, narrative manipulation, and the surreal experience of 21st‑century warfare. His book “300m” (2022) pairs WhatsApp messages from the 2021 Kabul airport evacuation with panoramic photographs made in Afghanistan. He is Director of Photography for Report for America, co‑founder of Mass Books, holds an MFA from the Hartford Art School, and lives in western Massachusetts.