Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq

On View: March 14- April 19, 2013

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx, NY 10451

Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq was an exhibition featuring the remarkable war diaries of Marine Lt. Timothy McLaughlin, along with texts by Peter Maass and photographs by Gary Knight. The exhibition presented three different experiences of the invasion from within the same unit and is timed to the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

This exhibition was curated by Mike Kamber.

This exhibition was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Tim McLaughlin was raised in New Hampshire and earned his B.A. from Holy Cross, majoring in Russian language and poetry. He joined the Marines after graduation and was a tank commander during the invasion of Iraq. Now a lawyer in Boston, he is the president of Shelter Legal Services, a non-profit that offers free legal advice to veterans and the homeless.

Gary Knight is an award-winning photographer for Newsweek and other major publications. He is a founder of the VII photo agency and director of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Studies at Tufts University. His war photography has been published worldwide and selected for major museum exhibitions.

Peter Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, which chronicles his experiences covering the Bosnian conflict, and Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. He has written for The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine and New York Review of Books. In 2012 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.